Does anyone work all day? The chattering class has taken over Valleywag, commenting when they ought to be out biking Mount Diablo with VCs or dumping their stock portfolios. Here are the top comments, or at least the ones I was bribed to feature:
Google, Google, Google. There, that's out of the way. The biggest kid in the pool will always be the most fun to splash, but others need a soaking too. Time to tell me whose swimsuit needs a wedgie.
Hopefully this doesn't count as citizen journalism. Valleywag has an invitation-based comment system for the wittiest readers — and those most deeply embedded in the Yahooglesoftacle hegemony.
Valley gossip got you F5ing all day? Relax and stick the needle in deep: Valleywag RSS feeds will keep you happy.
Ah, we knew Valleywag was more than a humble gossip rag. Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds, in his book An Army of Davids, argues that the internet has enabled corporate peons to rise up against their oppressors. On his site today, he cites Fucked Company, back in its heyday, and Valleywag now, as examples. Valleywag: not a website, it's a revolution, man.
1. What is Valleywag?
Valleywag is a tech gossip rag, focusing mainly on the people and stories of San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
Valleywag is a tech gossip rag. You people in Silicon Valley are far too busy changing the world to care about sex, greed and hypocrisy. But if you ever need a break, come visit us at Valleywag.
Oprah Winfrey's awesome power truly knows no bounds. After refusing for the last two-and-a-half weeks to take any responsibility for James Frey's faux-nonfiction, Doubleday & Anchor Books, the Random House division that published A Million Little Pieces finally issued an apology today — timestamped 4:51 p.m., before Oprah was even off the air.
One of us has held seven different fulltime media jobs over seven and a half years in New York. So, obviously, we like looking for new jobs — and we're betting you do too. As part of Gawker Media's ongoing effort to ensure you're as unproductive and useless to your employer as possible, we're now very proud to introduce Gawker Jobs.
1. Who can leave comments on Valleywag?
Anyone who has been invited, either by us or by a friend. The invite system works like Gmail. We've invited a bunch of our favorite execs, bloggers, and friends to comment, then given them invitations to share with their friends and colleagues. That way, the burden of inclusion, and exclusion, is shared.
An announcement from UVA's New York alumni club::
It's 2006 now, John Huey is totally, officially, completely, the new Time Inc. editor in chief, and today he makes his first move:
Okay, so J.Co suffered a last minute bout of food poisoning and couldn t make it in to the Gawker sit room today. And since Noelle Hancock is still unemployed (you could at least feign surprise), Gawker is having her fill in. As always, she requests that you do her job for her by sending in links and keep your criticism to yourself. She s really not interested.
Congratulations to Niche Media publisher Jason Binn, whose wife Haley gave birth yesterday to Gotham's littlest subscriber, Penny Olivia Binn, who looked positively chic at just under 7 lbs.
