Linked List: July 10, 2015

Friday, 10 July 2015

Reddit Shitshow Continues Unabated ★

Mike Isaac, reporting for the NYT:

Ellen Pao, the interim chief executive of Reddit, resigned from the online message board on Friday after a week of ceaseless criticism from scores of angry users over the handling of an employee departure.

Reddit: a terrible, childish community posting on a site owned by a terrible, dumbass company. Good luck to the next CEO.

Politico: Michael Bloomberg Fires Josh Topolsky ★

Dylan Byers, reporting for Politico’s On Media blog:

Joshua Topolsky, the top digital editor at Bloomberg, has been fired from the company due to Michael Bloomberg’s frustration with the website, sources with knowledge of his departure told the On Media blog on Friday. Bloomberg, a notorious micro-manager, had been fighting with Topolsky for months about the direction of the website, which had been relaunched under Topolsky’s leadership in January, company sources said. [...]

In recent weeks, the disagreements between Bloomberg and Topolsky hit a fever pitch, sources there said. This week, Bloomberg finally declared that he no longer wanted to work with Topolsky and demanded that he be moved off the Digital team. Topolsky agreed to leave on Thursday, though he will stay at Bloomberg offices until next week, when the company is expected to make a formal announcement.

Nick Bilton on the State of Twitter ★

Nick Bilton:

Marjorie Scardino, the former chief of the publishing firm Pearson, and another board member, has tweeted only eight times, ever. That’s like having someone on the board of Starbucks who doesn’t drink coffee.

Maybe they should fix the board before they choose a new CEO.