My gut tells me that he's trying to get fired. He was already sort of burnt out from the website, and honestly after the AOL deal went though I could never imagine him answering to Huffington (I mean can you picture that?). I also don't see the creative challenge for him to stay there, it's not like they'd let him build new sites and there isn't much room to do innovation on an existing site within the confines of AOL. Unless this is part of some AOL business plan I can't see him being there after next Friday...