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Michael Arrington is the new CEO of Yahoo

by spotirca on 5/4/12, 12:55 PM with 9 comments

• by marcusf on 5/4/12, 1:03 PM

  Arrington simply cannot resist making this about himself in some minor way. It's like honey to the bears.

  As said in the other thread (http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3925359) the man has to go, as clear cut as Hurd at HP. Starting of with a breach of ethics like this doesn't bode well for the future or to instill any sense of morale, values or professional ethics in the troops.

• by rbanffy on 5/4/12, 1:04 PM

  Not only that - he snatched this year's Nobel Prize for Blogging:

  http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelarrington#profile-honorsaw...

  I have to congratulate Michael Arrington for being such an accomplished prankster...

  Congratulations, Mike.

• by patrickk on 5/4/12, 1:07 PM

  https://twitter.com/#!/arrington/status/198246681232420864

  Arrington is practicing his own form of "gonzo journalism", without the style of Hunter S. Thompson (that is to say, without any style).

  I'm surprised anyone even cares.

• by uptown on 5/4/12, 12:59 PM

  I'm guessing it's just an "inadvertent error" on his resume, or what computer scientists might call a "bug".

• by uptown on 5/4/12, 1:01 PM

  Apparently he's sharing the position with Andrew Baron.

  http://www.linkedin.com/in/rocketboom

• by NonEUCitizen on 5/4/12, 1:29 PM

  Arrington forgot to mention his PhD. in CS from Stanford...

• by mkr-hn on 5/4/12, 1:05 PM

  He's trolling the tech press.

• by airnomad on 5/4/12, 12:57 PM

  they're dead

• by moron on 5/4/12, 1:03 PM

  I can't believe how far that guy has gotten simply by being a boil on the ass of the tech industry.