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Michael Arrington Removed From PandoDaily's board

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

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

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) 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/)

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.

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

Any idea on what caused it?

Arrington writes on his blog about this 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

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/

Today, it was announced that CrunchFund invested in rover.com: 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.

How does his investment in rover.com have clash potential?

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

Arrington is a joke

TechCrunch is a joke

PandoDaily is a joke and has a hideous design.

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