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Michael Arrington Removed From PandoDaily's board

37 points by streeter 14y ago

89a 14y ago
Arrington is a joke TechCrunch is a joke PandoDaily is a joke and has a hideous design.
travisketchum 14y ago
Any idea on what caused it?
- dwynings 14y ago
  Have to wonder if it's due to a conflict of interest – Arrington may become more involved in TechCrunch now that Arianna Huffington isn't his boss. He and MG Siegler are already set to make an appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt.
  - travisketchum 14y ago
    Interesting. I feel like the only good scoops most of the tech blogging sites now have is about internal drama and much less about awesome M&A type news.
    - earbitscom 14y ago
      No, it's just what they choose to write about. They get tips every day that go ignored, and then there is another post about how much they hate their employer. If they wanted to report on real news they could.
- petercooper 14y ago
  I don't, but two things have happened that I can see. Michael Arrington posted on TechCrunch a week ago and is helping out with a new TechCrunch event: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/im-back/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/im-back/ Today, it was announced that CrunchFund invested in rover.com: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/crunchfund-madrona-bite-doggie-care-service-rovercom/ http://www.geekwire.com/2012/crunchfund-madrona-bite-doggie-... Not saying either of these things are connected to the split but there's clash potential in them, I guess.
  - dwynings 14y ago
    How does his investment in rover.com have clash potential?
    - petercooper 14y ago
      No specific actions come to mind, but as has already been discussed with regards to investors, Pando and TC, investing in companies within your beat is tricky and open to all sorts of potential conflicts of interest, accidental or otherwise.
- philippK 14y ago
  Arrington writes on his blog about this http://uncrunched.com/2012/04/09/about-pando/ http://uncrunched.com/2012/04/09/about-pando/ Basically, he is saying, the Pando folks were pissed because he is going to speak at the disrupt conference
alanh 14y ago
If I wanted to hear about inside politics, I’d subscribe to pandodaily.
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suking 14y ago
Maybe b/c pando is a total bust and he doesn't need to be a part of it. Even the site design makes it hard to read. I figure if there's something ever good on there I can read it here.
CurtHagenlocher 14y ago
Seriously; why does anyone care about this attention-seeking assclown?
collypops 14y ago
"We have nothing more to say about the move" Not publicly, anyway. Which I commend. If it was anything but amicable, there's plenty other people willing to sling mud on that guy for them.
abhiasawa 14y ago
Now the whole drama will rehash itself all over again :(
avree 14y ago
There's some fairly silly competition between tech blogs. You can see from some of Sarah Lacy's tweets (https://twitter.com/#!/sarahcuda/status/189224285204783104 https://twitter.com/#!/sarahcuda/status/189224285204783104) that PandoDaily and TechCrunch don't see eye to eye at all. Arrington has recently been getting involved in TechCrunch again. (http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/im-back/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/im-back/) I'd surmise that the folks at PandoDaily felt weird about him having his hand in two techblogs. Seems pretty silly, especially considering that CrunchFund is invested in PandoDaily and not TechCrunch, but that's what I'd guess.

37 points by streeter 14y ago

89a 14y ago

Arrington is a joke TechCrunch is a joke PandoDaily is a joke and has a hideous design.

travisketchum 14y ago

Any idea on what caused it?

dwynings 14y ago
Have to wonder if it's due to a conflict of interest – Arrington may become more involved in TechCrunch now that Arianna Huffington isn't his boss. He and MG Siegler are already set to make an appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt.
- travisketchum 14y ago
  Interesting. I feel like the only good scoops most of the tech blogging sites now have is about internal drama and much less about awesome M&A type news.
  - earbitscom 14y ago
    No, it's just what they choose to write about. They get tips every day that go ignored, and then there is another post about how much they hate their employer. If they wanted to report on real news they could.
petercooper 14y ago
I don't, but two things have happened that I can see. Michael Arrington posted on TechCrunch a week ago and is helping out with a new TechCrunch event: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/im-back/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/im-back/ Today, it was announced that CrunchFund invested in rover.com: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/crunchfund-madrona-bite-doggie-care-service-rovercom/ http://www.geekwire.com/2012/crunchfund-madrona-bite-doggie-... Not saying either of these things are connected to the split but there's clash potential in them, I guess.
- dwynings 14y ago
  How does his investment in rover.com have clash potential?
  - petercooper 14y ago
    No specific actions come to mind, but as has already been discussed with regards to investors, Pando and TC, investing in companies within your beat is tricky and open to all sorts of potential conflicts of interest, accidental or otherwise.
philippK 14y ago
Arrington writes on his blog about this http://uncrunched.com/2012/04/09/about-pando/ http://uncrunched.com/2012/04/09/about-pando/ Basically, he is saying, the Pando folks were pissed because he is going to speak at the disrupt conference

alanh 14y ago

If I wanted to hear about inside politics, I’d subscribe to pandodaily.

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suking 14y ago

Maybe b/c pando is a total bust and he doesn't need to be a part of it. Even the site design makes it hard to read. I figure if there's something ever good on there I can read it here.

CurtHagenlocher 14y ago

Seriously; why does anyone care about this attention-seeking assclown?

collypops 14y ago

"We have nothing more to say about the move" Not publicly, anyway. Which I commend. If it was anything but amicable, there's plenty other people willing to sling mud on that guy for them.

abhiasawa 14y ago

Now the whole drama will rehash itself all over again :(

avree 14y ago

There's some fairly silly competition between tech blogs. You can see from some of Sarah Lacy's tweets (https://twitter.com/#!/sarahcuda/status/189224285204783104 https://twitter.com/#!/sarahcuda/status/189224285204783104) that PandoDaily and TechCrunch don't see eye to eye at all. Arrington has recently been getting involved in TechCrunch again. (http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/im-back/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/im-back/) I'd surmise that the folks at PandoDaily felt weird about him having his hand in two techblogs. Seems pretty silly, especially considering that CrunchFund is invested in PandoDaily and not TechCrunch, but that's what I'd guess.