{"id":5118,"date":"2011-09-02T09:13:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T08:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2011-09-02T09:13:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T08:13:48","slug":"time-for-aol-to-show-their-hand-over-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/time-for-aol-to-show-their-hand-over-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for AOL to show their hand over TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s going to be lots of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5836737\">suppressing\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techmeme.com\/110901\/p49#a110901p49\">and <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/02\/technology\/michael-arrington-techcrunch-blogger-to-invest-in-start-ups.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">covering<\/a> fire over Michael Arrington&#8217;s new investment fun, but I&#8217;m watching AOL to see who&#8217;s chosen as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/aol-is-replacing-michael-arrington-at-techcrunch--hell-still-write-2011-9?op=1\">the new TechCrunch editor<\/a>. Whether they go for an AOL&#8217;er to take the chair, an internal promotion, or poach someone from outside, that&#8217;s going to tell us a lot about the upcoming direction of one of the\u00a0tent pole\u00a0technology sites on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s going to be lots of\u00a0suppressing\u00a0and covering fire over Michael Arrington&#8217;s new investment fun, but I&#8217;m watching AOL to see who&#8217;s chosen as the new TechCrunch editor. Whether they go for an AOL&#8217;er to take the chair, an internal promotion, or poach someone from outside, that&#8217;s going to tell us a lot about the upcoming direction of one of the\u00a0tent pole\u00a0technology sites on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[53,25],"tags":[2267,2652,3112,3111,83],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging","category-link-log","tag-aol","tag-crunchfund","tag-direction","tag-editor","tag-techcrunch","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1ky","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}