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Owen Thomas,
3:15 PM on Tue Jul 17 2007,
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For Earth2Tech, the new green blog from GigaOm, founder
Om Malik has hired Adena DeMonte away from the
Red Herring, the struggling publication we've put on a deathwatch. That's got to be the last straw for Herring editor
Joel Dreyfuss (pictured, right). Rumor has it that Dreyfuss at one point told Malik to stop poaching the Herring's best writers. Malik, of course, is a former Herring writer, but the publication in its current form and under current management bears no relationship, aside from the name, to the storied tech magazine Malik worked for earlier in this decade. Why Dreyfuss feels Malik's not entitled to fish in his pond is a mystery to me — unless it's just a sign of his general frustration with trying to bail out a sinking ship.