Is the Engadget Meltdown a Preview of AOL's Future?

Could Michael Arrington or, even worse, Arianna Huffington, pull a Josh Topolsky? And if they did, what exactly did Tim Armstrong spend upwards of $365 million to put together? And just how lame is the AOL content management system?

Those must be a few of the questions AOL’s leadership team is asking after the news over the weekend that former Engadget editor in chief Topolsky and eight other Engadget staffers were fleeing as a group to launch a new tech blog this fall at SB Nation, a company which until now had been focused almost exclusively on sports Web sites.

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