Remember the ihate.vc website created by Jason DeFillippo, CTO at magazine startup 8020 Publishing? The site, until this morning, displayed a big middle finger directed at venture capitalists, an ill-advised gesture for an executive at a capital-starved startup. DeFillippo has now redirected ihate.vc to a definition for "sense of humor." We assume he was hoping to have his boss, Paul Cloutier, 8020's controlling and devious CEO, look the term up. Good luck with that, Jason.

Venture capitalists are always running around prattling about how they "love entrepreneurs." Alas, lovelorn moneybags, it seems the feeling is not requited. Jason DeFillippo, the CTO of 8020 Publishing, a user-generated magazine publishing startup, has registered the domain name "ihate.vc" and posted the above mash note to investors. I can't imagine this bodes well for 8020's future fundraising efforts. (Screenshot from ihate.vc)

UPDATE: Derek Powazek is reportedly leaving Technorati too. The blog-search company's senior designer joined in 2004 and has since made the site all bubbly. Where's Powazek heading?