AOL Acquires Huffington Post

could totally be an engadget part ii

http://twitter.com/#!/karaswisher/status/111623539395801088

hm

gotta tell you, now more than ever i wanna go to that disrupt conference.

http://twitter.com/#!/arrington/status/111631950455902208

irl lol

this is interesting, re engadget: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/engadget.com/?metric=uv

via hacker news (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2972268), where they're also discussing this

eh, looks like gizmodo dipped too so who knows

giz dipped cause of the redesign tho

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/08/not-leaving-quietly/

http://i.imgur.com/5Z5LM.png

omg so emo

lol @ aol imo

otm

wow

http://gawker.com/5838501/

that's pretty lazily written

how do you mean

Love the idea of a blog about internet startups having a badass 'fuck-you' attitude

"Ceding control to the Huffington Post will be the death of everything - the voice, the swagger, the 'fuck you' attitude - that makes TechCrunch great." Emphasis from the original (!).

except in the original it's emphasized because he's quoting someone else. either the valleywag writer didn't notice that because he didn't read the whole piece he's writing about or he's deliberately suggesting the emphasis is carr's which is a weird way of making him come off as more forceful than he actually is.

paul carr is such a tool

well yeah

techcrunch is a garden shed of tools

ehhhhhhh hoos i feel you but why did carr italicize (rather than use quote marks)? i think what ryans doing is well in bounds

i like paul carr

you like a tool

he wants 'bringing nothing to the party' to be 'a moveable feast' but its just a more polished tucker max bit imo

http://allthingsd.com/20110908/after-aol-rules-out-techcrunch-sale-to-arrington-tense-severance-negotiations-taking-place/

urls-that-neatly-summarise-the-article-are-awesome

lol

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/arrington-is-out-at-aol-and-techcrunch/

But some of TechCrunch’s writers and editors are considering leaving AOL and TechCrunch to start a rival blog, according to a person briefed on the developments who was not authorized to speak publicly.

i would do that cause then maybe u can sell it to aol later

lol

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/techcrunch-wall-street-journal_b_958559.html

http://twitter.com/#!/arrington/status/113339800295182336

here we go

max otm. carr worst person i have met.

ever.

Huffington's story appears to makes sense, and Arrington and his army are really coming off as sooks.

i'm still trying to figure out how the apparent conflict of interest didn't occur to anybody until after they announced crunchfund

like

who the fuck are you purported businesspeople

heh, im sure it occurred to "them"! they dont care; they just want crunchfunds money!

the conflict-of-interest thing was just arianna huffington seeing an opportunity to dump arrington

yeah probably

as gawkers ryan tate has documented, huffpo is rife w/ conflicts of interest http://gawker.com/5837690/

right but i'm saying it seems to me arrington & TC should have foreseen that the conflict would be poorly received publicly, and that if AOL was buying into such an obvious questionable scenario maybe they had diff motives than "putting money in mike arrington's pocket"

wld really like to have been a fly on proverbial wall.

xp that links to this http://www.businessinsider.com/aol-says-reporters-are-not-allowed-to-invest-in-companies-they-cover-except-michael-arrington-2011-4

It's always tricky to get an unbiased picture when press agencies' fallings-out are covered by other press agencies.

like is arrington just a bigger and more egotistical fool than i realized or

i wouldve really liked for there to be a bomb on the wall that killed all of these people

"NO ONE WILL CARE, FOR I AM ARRINGTON, OF THE INTERNET"

Most annoying thing is that people like Siegler are trying to drag the readers into it.

most annoying thing is everything

hoos the thing is itd never really been a problem for arrington before? and my guess is, if arianna hadnt released that initial statement (w/o arringtons knowledge), it wouldnt really have been an issue. tech journalism!