The bearded and bespectacled Engadget editor Joshua Topolsky has announced he’s leaving the fourth most popular blog in the country. He gives no reason and says he has a few fantasy projects he might work on. That translates to I have been fired and have no new job.
Engadget has been owned by AOL since 2005 when the founders sold the blog group Weblogs, Inc. for a reported $25M. In that time they have had steady growth and are well regarded. So, what changed? AOL purchased HuffPo and put Arianna Huffington in charge of the AOL blog empire which also includes the Techcrunch group of blogs. It seems strange timing for the editor to “leave” unless Arianna wants to put one of her own in charge or Topolsky didn’t want to go along with the AOL Way. This comes in the same week that AOL laid off 200 people.
Source and photo Engadget.
