It's all become too much for Michael Arrington, publisher of Techcrunch and, as he was introduced at a conference this weekend, the King of Web 2.0. Arrington's retiring for two months to his parents' home on a small island in Washington state, he wrote today. Reviews on Arrington's Techcrunch can make or break small web startups, but the man himself is surprisingly sensitive to criticism. (When I met him for the first time at the Web 2.0 conference, his first words: I used to like you guys, until you made me want to kill myself. I don't think he was joking.) For the whole explanation:

Great late-night conversation with intelligent people is a lot more interesting that the hallway chatter at the latest conference. I'm completely burned out on those 2 minute "how ya doin" talks myself, and I'm taking two months off from the valley to get my bearings again. I'll be staying at my parents retirement home on a small island in Washington state and working half time. The other half of my time will be spent with my parents, and skiing at nearby Mt. Baker. Yeah, I'll miss all the holiday parties in Silicon Valley this year, but frankly that's a plus, too.

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