Tensions are really heating up this week in the world of online image sharing. First, on Monday, Heather Champ and Derek Powazek, co-creators of the socially-produced photography magazine JPG (you've probably flipped through it at Urban Outfitters whilst waiting for your significant other to try on pants), announced that they were leaving their baby in the hands of their former business partners. The split was acrimonious, to say the least. The magazine and its parent company, 8020 Publishing, will now be run by CEO Paul Coutier, in partnership with CNET founder Halsey Minor. As Champ put it in a blog post, the new ownership


In post on his own blog, Powazek (who is Champ's husband as well as collaborator) painted Cloutier as an underhanded power-grabber. Cloutier's goal, he argues, is to recast JPG as less of a built-from-nothing community-powered experiment, and more of a traditional publishing venture.