You knew someone would be the first to jump ship. Did you think it would be Tim?
TO BE CLEAR: Blair has withdrawn from the Editorial Board. His blog is still listed as one of the member blogs. I don't know what the contractual details are here, but based on the offer I saw, the member bloggers had to commit themselves for 18 months.
November 28, 2005
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Hey, I did think it would be Tim! Wow! Aside from the fact that he is rather far away and busy (his proffered reason for quitting), I always though him too much of a wildcard to get embroiled in something he couldn't criticize. Good for him.
I sort of hoped it would be Reynolds, if only because I respect him and find his participation in something so antithetical to his blogging values to be a bit puzzling.
Actually I expected Larry Kudlow to leave first.
HYup, he withdrew from the Editorial Board, saying:
PM needs people who can devote themselves full-time to rescuing the project after a launch that was, to say the least, problematic. It would be wrong for me to continue any involvement without being able to help to that extent. Hopefully PM will turn things around; I’d love to see it succeed.
I notice that it doesn't say "leaving PJM", just "leaving the Editorial Board." Must have been a slip that the headline on this post suggests the latter.
Fair enough.
Thank you.
By the way, are comments off on the "whore" post? It 404's when I try to look at the comments.
Oh, that's too bad.
Ann, you're the lawyer and you know what they signed, but doesn't the obvious fact that the entity is no longer the one they signed on to make their contract null and void?
Charlie: Try it now. Blogger has had a glitch the last few days, but I've been able to get rid of it by republishing.
Got it, thanks.
Erp: I didn't see the text of the contract, and you're asking whether whether Pajamas could be accused of already breaching the contract, such that Tim isn't bound anymore. But I don't know what Pajamas promised to do. From the emailed offer I read, it didn't seem as though Pajamas was promising to do ANYTHING except pay money. That was one of my criticisms of the deal. I didn't think they were committing to anything, and I said it was a bad idea to bind yourself to a company that you had never seen in action, especially for such a long period of time.
How did I know if they'd be any good? The main argument people kept making on the other side is: if you don't sign on and it turns out to be good, you'll have missed the boat. I said (back in my original Pajamas v. BlogAds post), I want to know what the boat is. You don't just jump on anything. Oh, then there was the argument that it would be good because the people involved were so good....
Ann, My point was just that given the debacle of the past week, it's unlikely any blogger who wanted out would be threatened with legal action. The last thing they need is more bad press.
Erp: Parties to a contract can always make a new contract if they can agree. Also, one party can just stop performing, and there might not be any legal action.
I sort of hoped it would be Reynolds, if only because I respect him and find his participation in something so antithetical to his blogging values to be a bit puzzling.
I'm not sure about the anti-ethical biz, but I thought it would be Glenn too.
He's never gunshy when it comes to speaking his mind, and changing course, if things don't function properly.
Cheers,
Victoria
Antithetical not anti-ethical!
Antithetical not anti-ethical!
Ack! As Marty Feldman said in Young Dr. Frankenstein:
Curse my eyes! ...too late.
Cheers,
Victoria
Ann, re: the blogger issue, make sure you republish the entire blog after you change your template. Blogger does weird things to posts published under a previous template if you don't.
Jim 2, do we even know what the structure of the PJM entity is and what roles and responsibilities specific people are assigned? I think it would help if PJM's "Honesty and Transparency" creed extended to divulging members' and partners' interests and obligations to a potential readership that's dumbfounded as to what PJM is and why it isn't living up to a fraction of its billing
I've been wondering about this very thing. It all seems so mysterious.b
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