AOL Acquires Huffington Post

http://twitter.com/#!/paulcarr

These blokes are acting like jilted lovers

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/barry-diller-skewers-aol-for-firing-michael-arrington-from-techcrunch/

It’s not a journalistic enterprise, TechCrunch. And so to have treated it as such is to destroy it. So now, he’s gone, and now they own this thing, which has no voice. Congratulations. What a good piece of business.

http://twitter.com/#!/arrington/status/114224473804242946

If these guys keep up the whinging they're going to lose whatever support they've still got. I won't be following Arrington to his new personal blog because I'm sick of his henchmen shitting up the internet with this crap.

GO ARIANNA is where I'm probably going with this

http://twitter.com/#!/parislemon/status/114426586735976448

*single tear slides down cheek*

^

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/09/15/arrington-talks-new-blog-and-how-he-almost-stayed-at-aol/

pls don't spare us w/ the updates on this fascinating story im on the edge of my seat here

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/16/last-post/

carr:

What I knew last week, but can only write now, is that while Heather, Mike and other senior editorial staffers were making a stand for the site’s editorial independence from The Huffington Post, Erick cut a side deal with Huffington to guarantee him the top job once Mike was gone.

yeah that post really just concretized my h8

ugh thank god

also wow @ schonfeld

http://twitter.com/#!/erickschonfeld/status/114839470183944193

http://twitter.com/#!/myspacetom/status/114829734516498433
http://twitter.com/#!/myspacetom/status/114830230518112257

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/16/back-to-our-regularly-scheduled-program-posterous-raises-5-million/

Um, oh hey guys, what’s up? Nothing much over on my side, except that I’d really like a Diet Coke. Also, I’m hearing that nascent photo sharing app née blogging platform Posterous is raising some money. So yeah that’s what’s up over here in my neck of TC HQ.

Chew on this if you’re in the mood for some actual tech news; the simple blogging service and Tumblr competitor has just raised $5 million in Series B according to multiple sources. Taking part in the round will be Redpoint Ventures, newcomer Jafco Ventures and existing angels.

oh man

meanwhile

http://twitter.com/#!/paulcarr/status/114840198164123648
http://twitter.com/#!/paulcarr/status/114840556500299776

the film of this would made by aaron spelling rather than aaron sorkin

XD

http://twitter.com/#!/alexia/status/114832530674421760

re diet coke

hmm

i guess paul carr got her a lot of diet cokes?

if so that is kind of sweet

Man I wouldn't blame this Eric guy for trying to cut a deal to keep his job, it's gotta be hard to find a W-2 writing job.

Which is to say we shouldn't be surprised that people opt to continue getting paid to eat shit sandwiches in many situations.

Though obviously everyone involved here is a big ol drama queen

http://twitter.com/#!/parislemon/status/114841836761251840

Yeah, it sounds like 1. Arrington clashed with Huffington 2. Schonfeld stepped up because let's face it who wouldn't 3. Arrington's chums went feral for some loyalty-based reason I still can't get a grip on

xp loooooool

lol

http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0005/3784/53784v7-max-250x250.jpg

p sure that's just phil and clare out of modern family

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/16/paul-i-accept-your-resignation/

loving these URLs

Michael Arrington · Top Commenter · Founder at TechCrunch
This is just sad.
Reply · Like · Follow Post · 2 minutes ago

looool

Is the startup culture actually producing anything of value (either monetary or social)? I mean, Instagram, Twitter, etc., but what else has come out of this environment that's either making money or being widely used?

(and those two didn't come out of the TechCrunch/ycombiner/etc. world anyway, right?)

there's def good stuff out there, like sparkrelief (http://www.sparkrelief.org/) or hand things down (http://beta.handthingsdown.com/iphone/index.html), mytab (https://www.mytab.co/), and dradt (http://www.disasterrelief.cc/) is being used pretty heavily in texas right now since the fires.

making money or widely used is a different question, though.

imo the best and most interesting startup stuff is happening in nyc and dc. in dc especially, a town already full of do-gooders, social entrepreneurship is a big deal.

ime ppl in silicon valley wanna build the next facebook or groupon, ppl in dc wanna ~change the world~ and shit.

that's an interesting distinction

imo the best and most interesting startup stuff is happening in nyc and dc.

what nyc startups do you think are doing cool things?

i really like getaround (http://www.getaround.com/) and banksimple (https://banksimple.com/) who i count as ny even if they're in portland now.

i've heard of banksimple b/c alex payne, but i don't know anything about getaround. will check it out -- thx

np

notably, most of the cars on getaround are in california. silicon valley has the early adopter culture going for it, at least.

http://parislemon.com/post/10309036779/what-needs-to-be-said

Also the truth: AOL has not reached out to me once in this entire situation. You’d think they might care about something like that. Evidently, they don’t. I’m not losing any sleep over it, but it’s curious.

There is exactly one person to blame for all of this — and her name is not Erick.