His connections will come in handy, his judgement remains to be seen. It'll be interesting to see how much journalistic independence TC maintains, and how favourably his startups are covered compared to his competitors. I never got the impression that Arrington was the kind of guy to play fast and loose with ethics, but I could very well see him refraining from pulling an Arrington on his own startups, in the way he has on others.

Interesting times.