Did Julia send it?

Valleywag needs a special icon for this class of circle jerk posting. Possibly Ouroboros, the snake consuming its own tail. Or just Scoble wanking off.

you guys are being very mean to poor megan asha. she just wanted to see what julia was so excited about.

Scoble needs to find a new dentist if he wants to keep making videos. Or just be done with it and get a gold tooth.

If Rose doesn't want people filming him acting like an idiot, why does he keep acting like an idiot?

Has this guy ever written a line of code or is he, like Scoble, just another airhead online "personality"? How can actual "tech" people stay interested in this stuff?

Definitely a slow news day to long weekend people are taking I guess.

@macbeach:

robert rose went to unlv for computer science then dropped out to be a 'tech advisor' and then as production assistant to shitty tv shows on G4 which then evolved to him hosting which led him to telling off slashdot that they need to let voters dig up stories which led him to paying 3500 for someone on rentacoder to code out his site.

kevin rose is to tech as carson daly is to music

@Alaska Miller: Is the rentacoder thing serious? I always wondered how half these start-ups came into fruition when it seems like the founders don't come off as particularly skillful engineers.

@Dweezil:

[www.techjuicer.com]

he mentions buying a php book but then realized it's out of his league so he pays someone else to code it.

Maybe if Rose claimed he did write digg it would be "worth" more - it worked quite well for a certain facebook ceo.

If you're looking for the guy who coded Digg. He posts on Hacker News, often about how ripped off he was by Kevin et al.

@ThatKid: I don't see how he was ripped off if he was paid. The most amazing thing to me isn't really that the "creators" of most of these websites appear to have no technical skills, it's that they shared all these ideas with random internet people. I'm sure they sign an NDA, but who gives a shit about an NDA signed between a couple of guys in their young 20s over a few thousand dollars? Zuckerburg blatantly stole code others wrote and he hasn't seen any serious repercussions because of how easy it is to make the kind of litigation they're involved in last forever. I am truly amazed these small groups who get outsourced to (or this guy who's bitching about Digg) never just took the ideas and made the websites themselves.