Antti Akonniemi

There was lot of talk (and here) after comments made by Mr. Arrington in Le Web during the Gillmor Gang. I was there and to me the comments made Arrington (comments such as The Europeans are lazy) look a bit arrogant (and even more so after the comments made when he returned to US). It was nevertheless entertaining and all in all I really enjoyed the Le Web.

On that stage that day was also Loren Feldman. I didn’t know who he was before, but I liked his charisma. After that day I did some research about him, watched his video clips, started to follow him in Twitter. He seemed like a cool guy.

Today the fun started when I woke up. Little did I know what would happen.

Loic Le Meur had posted a link to this video:

I knew he had some NY-attitude, but come on!

I replied to Loic and look what happened:

Nice

Boy was I bummed. Then I found more Loren’s comments about Europe:

Back home. G-d Bless America. Amazing how much better we are then the rest of the world

Up and working. Last day of European tour. I came, I saw, I’m leaving unimpressed.

@vincenzof These Frenchies are so weak. Amazing to me.No force of will at all. @techcrunch was 100 percent correct. They cant compete @ all

And I’m not the only one being blocked by Loren:

@ToddGilmore Questions like that are probably the reason I blocked you. You seem like an idiot to me

@danielracovitan – Blocked frenchie!

France is rapidly becoming a distant nightmare. So happy I banned them.

And so on.. What a classy guy! I hope this tactic works for him and he gets ton of views for his show. I’m not impressed and I’ll continue following more classier New Yorkers like Gary Vaynerchuk.

Loren Feldman, I now ban thee on all mediums that we share together and from Europe.