Big corporations change things. They don't want to, but they just can't help themselves. The Engadget guys are probably being asked to fill out quarterly training goals in Excel worksheets and enter their sick days in an IE6-only web app that goes down every day at 6pm for maintenance. Or maybe the editors were "invited" to attend leadership training. There are many kinds of torture that wouldn't encroach on editorial freedom.
"What’s my point? It’s that we don’t take crap from anyone, internally or externally." --- I wonder if it had anything to do with Arrington and TechCrunch.
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agree - they are all leaving one by one - something is definitely up - it's not like AOL was going to close EG so it's really interesting.
Big corporations change things. They don't want to, but they just can't help themselves. The Engadget guys are probably being asked to fill out quarterly training goals in Excel worksheets and enter their sick days in an IE6-only web app that goes down every day at 6pm for maintenance. Or maybe the editors were "invited" to attend leadership training. There are many kinds of torture that wouldn't encroach on editorial freedom.
AOL has owned Engadget for six years. I doubt they're leaving because things got "corporate" all of a sudden.
"What’s my point? It’s that we don’t take crap from anyone, internally or externally." --- I wonder if it had anything to do with Arrington and TechCrunch.