The current squabble within The Other 99 started when Pool, who has been featured in The New York Times, Time, and Fast Company got invited to a meeting with a book agent. Pool said via telephone that he invited Ferry to the meeting. "Henry was really excited and was like, 'this is a day that will change your life; it’s an important moment.' But we got into an argument about how a book deal would work ... Now he brings it up in every argument [we have]. It’s the first thing he jumps to every time."

Ferry and Pool started out as collaborators. After Pool started The Other 99, Ferry got the idea to put a fund-raising button on the stream to collect donations. Pool wrote in his Pastebin post that Ferry spent $37,000 they had raised, "yet has produced almost no content, at least not enough to warrant how much money he has spent." He used donation money to buy Pool a computer and a backpack, which Pool says helped him shoot video at minimal expense. "I would say out of all of it, about $1,000 was spent on stuff that I got," Pool said over the phone. "He’s spent the money on web hosting, domain names, food when we had meetings. Nothing illegal or unethical but stuff I wouldn’t spend money on. I was sleeping in the park, eating from the Occupy kitchen." After the raid on Zuccotti, when Pool put in marathon live-streaming stints on two separate days, "about $8,000 came into The Other 99 because of my broadcast. I found out about two weeks later that only $2,000 was left. I said 'where did that money go?' No one had an answer." Pool said Ferry once told him that "he gave about $6,000 of the donations to the occupiers," but "a couple of weeks ago when he was taking account of his finances, he said I’ve given 10,000 to the park." That made Pool question Ferry's book keeping.

Then there was the question of work ethic, which Pool said Ferry lacked. Ferry took a two-week vacation in November and another one in December, Pool said, and opted out of their work frequently to watch football.* The time off is a major annoyance for Pool. "It was always me sleeping in the park, me gathering information, me making sacrifices," he told us. "I understand people want to take vacations. But at the same time, I’m sitting here and working through all of them."

Their feud came to a head on Wednesday, when Pool says Ferry locked him out of their jointly controlled accounts. "Tim here, Henry has blocked me from Ustream by changing passwords," Pool tweeted from @TheOther99, which is still jointly controlled. He says he's given back the computer but still had an iPhone and mobile hot spot, both of which were deactivated on Wednesday. Pool said Ferry "sat me down [and] told me that he doesn’t see me being part of the Ustream channel anymore."

Pool's now broadcasting on a Ustream channel called Timcast, and his separation from Ferry seems pretty permanent, especially now that it's so public. But perhaps a very public breakup is the only way a team dedicated to organizational transparency could end.