Silicon Valley vs. Silicon Alley: The cheat sheet

Yeah, yeah, we know. Tech's natural home is the Bay Area. New York is for everything else. But as TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington and Silicon Alley Insider founder Henry Blodget blog their way into a full-on catfight over which one has the authority to predict the future of the dot-com industry, we figured it was time to give our readers around the world an understanding of two very different cities' very different tech scenes. From hot babes to tasty food, here's what you need to know about the fundamental differences between the Bay Area and the Boroughs.

	Valley	Alley
Polarizing, Bubble 2.0-inflating blogauthority	TechCrunch's Michael Arrington	Silicon Alley Insider's Henry Blodget
Tech titans	Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.	Well, AOL just moved to Cooper Square--and IBM's a few Metro-North stops away in White Plains.
Non-tech industry powerhouses	Tourism, biotech, medicine, left-wing politics	Tourism, media, finance, entertainment, fashion, celebrity gossip
Boulevard of (broken?) dreams	Venture capital artery Sand Hill Road	"Blog Alley," Crosby Street in SoHo
Loquacious blog celebrity	Robert Scoble	Jeff Jarvis
Late-night calorie booster	Burritos	Pizza
Bodacious finance newsbabe	Former MarketWatch anchor Bambi Francisco, now of Vator.tv	CNBC anchor and "Money Honey" Maria Bartiromo
Notable new-media defector	Entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, who left Brooklyn for the West Coast	CBS Interactive President and Valley VC veteran Quincy Smith
Irritating exhibitionist online-video entrepreneur	Justin Kan of Justin.tv	Jakob Lodwick of Vimeo
New media's mini-empires	TechCrunch, Sugar	Gawker Media, Gothamist, The Huffington Post
High-profile political tabloid fodder	Sexy San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom	Non-sexy New York Governor Eliot Spitzer
Dreamy, shaggy-haired dot-com cutie	Digg founder Kevin Rose	CollegeHumor co-founder Ricky Van Veen
Week-long bacchanalia involving funny outfits and substance abuse	Burning Man	Fashion Week
Latest uber-disappointment	Second Life	The New York Mets
No. 1 reason to be cranky	Real estate prices	Real estate prices

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Who cares

Who Cares????

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Did cnet totally copy CIO.com?

CIO.com published a similar story, in a similar format on September 17: East vs. West: Which Coast is Better for an IT Career? Here's the link: http://www.cio.com/article/138700

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They got Second Life right

Second Life the life that causes stress, makes you pay money. And cheats you out of what you had owned. If this is not bad enough, The Lindens themselves can`t be trusted. Because they are always looking into account and digging for information about you. Don`t trust you personal data with them.