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Yes, Valleywag has redesigned
Our new design is a modest tweak, which should have little effect on your reading enjoyment: Top stories are now featured prominently at the top of every page. We welcome your thoughts in the comments.
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Meet the editors of Valleywag.
Meet the editors of Valleywag.
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Judge rules that Valleywag can't be held responsible for our commenters
Okay, it wasn't a case actually involving Valleywag, but ConsumerAffairs.com. Virgina judge Gerald Bruce Lee cited the Communications Decency Act in absolving the Web site and company of any liability for user complaints about car dealerships in Fairfax, Virginia. The commenters themselves, however, are still liable for defamation and libel lawsuits, so be nice! Or at least take steps to preserve your anonymity. Not a commenter on Valleywag, but would like to become one? Read our FAQ. We especially love folks who send us tips, preferrably from inside the belly of some Valley tech beast.
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I've had it with you people
I promised I wouldn't take another vacation. The last time I did, all hell broke loose. Larry and Sergey turned a Nasa base into their private jet hangar, Six Apart dumped its CEO, and Kevin Rose broke his iPhone. I dread the notion of leaving the Valley unsupervised for a week. But since September, I've replaced my entire collection of minions. Valleywag is now run by two drunks, a fag, a whore, and a madman. I am leaving Valleywag, and you, gentle readers, in their hands for a week, while I reacquaint myself with sunshine. And perhaps a wee bit of tin-smithing. I shall return on June 30, with the fervent hope that there will be a few Facebook and Yahoo executives left to write about by then.
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How to subscribe to Valleywag by email
Valleywag has added an option to subscribe to our most popular stories by email. I can hear the disapproving Twitters being typed already. The overflowing inboxes of Silicon Valley's hypercommunicative elite have led them to disdain the medium of email. The MySpace generation is said to have rejected email as a tool of parents and teachers, opting for private Web-based messaging instead. And yet email remains immensely popular — universal, reliable, and simple. Most importantly, it's something readers have been asking us for. Here's how you can subscribe to Valleywag, and what you'll get. More »
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Very special correspondent Paul Boutin even more special now
The big tech pubs have been shuffling their A-team players lately. Steven Levy jumped from Newsweek to Wired. Dan Lyons left Forbes to replace Levy at Newsweek. Forbes is now doing some high-end poaching of its own. (Can we vote for Brendan Koerner?) And the New York Times is staffing up for battle with the Wall Street Journal. Here at Valleywag, we heard that perpetual hanger-on, WSJ book reviewer, Wired kibbitzer and Bono impersonator Paul Boutin was being pulled into interviews for some of these big gigs. Paul, we told him, why bother? No matter where you end up, every single article you write will be 100-worded and openly mocked on Valleywag. Why don't you just finally join the team and post the stuff yourself here? Cracked Boutin, "That seems easier." He starts July 1. More »
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Where to find our stats
Valleywag publisher Nick Denton likes to boast that our traffic statistics are published for anyone to peruse. As a former user interface developer, I'm painfully aware that we've made it impossible to find them. Here are the hot links to two of our three separate site statistics feeds. Thank God the numbers don't add up, or I'd really doubt them. More »
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Mary Jane Irwin, my first hire at Valleywag, has joined Forbes.com as a staff troublemaker and insult comic. Congrats, MJ! And I'm sorry, Fake Steve.
The modern-day resignation letter
Mary Jane Irwin, my first hire at Valleywag, has joined Forbes.com as a staff troublemaker and insult comic. Congrats, MJ! And I'm sorry, Fake Steve.
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A new specter is haunting Valleywag
It is high time that I should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish my views, my aims, my tendencies. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. As a proud member of the creative underclass, I'm here to rage! Rage I say! More »
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Taking a post-SXSW nap
Attention, readers: You can stop begging me to stop writing about SXSW Interactive; it's done, as am I, after staying up all night and taking a 7:40 a.m. flight back. Many thanks to guest editor Evelyn Nussenbaum, who's been keeping things running while I was in Austin. I'll be back in the saddle tomorrow. (Photo by Jason Calacanis of Mahalo fame)
How not to read about SXSW
We can't do anything about all the Twitters. But if you want an Austin-free version of Valleywag, try out our SXSW-free page.
We can't do anything about all the Twitters. But if you want an Austin-free version of Valleywag, try out our SXSW-free page.
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Help wanted, apply within
Valleywag is hiring. Applicants should send nothing but the URL of their blog (or other body of writing, available online) to jobs@valleywag.com. Also, you'll want to have read our conveniently leaked style guide, and found yourself nodding in agreement. Applicants must already live in the Bay Area, or present evidence of the booking of a one-way U-Haul rental. The jobs: More »
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Completely inarticulate? Leave a YouTube comment!
Announcing a new commenting feature: If words fail you, you can paste the link to a YouTube video in your comment. You don't even need to be skilled enough to copy and paste the embed code; just the URL will do. A thumbnail will appear in your comment, and clicking on it will bring up the clip. Shown here: Jason Pontin's deep analysis of yours truly. This feature is still being tested, so please report any bugs you encounter.
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At last, our names are clickable
Finally finally finally! Gawker Media sites including Valleywag advanced from the Stone Age to the Pointy Stone Age today, adding clickable links to each writer's byline (pardon the newspaper-speak) so you can find all posts by that writer. Next up: A link that lets you read everything but me.
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Sending off Megan McCarthy at Moose's today
Herb Caen's typewriter is gone from Moose's, but the recently remodeled North Beach hangout still hosts the beloved columnist's spirit, I'm convinced. So I picked the spot for drinks in honor of Megan "Leggy" McCarthy, our party correspondent who's headed to some print rag in SoMa. (In Soviet Russia, Wired gets you!) Drinking starts at 4 p.m. Drunk blogging starts at 4:15 p.m. RSVP on Facebook, or just show up with a juicy piece of gossip dripping from your lips.
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New York Times panty-raids Valleywag
I just published my first in what will be a whole lot of New York Times personal technology articles for non-nerds. "A Universe of Gadget Advice" leads those of us (read: me) who can't follow the gadgetspeak on Gizmodo through the hell — well, the heck of online last-minute gadget gift shopping. NYT techniology [sic] editor Damon Darlin turns out to be a perfectly nice guy who gets my jokes. And then edits them into English. I'll be writing about cellphones, cameras, TVs, and any Web 2.0 stuff that survives Ted at Uncov. I'm pretty sure I'm now the first writer to simultaneously contribute to the NYT, the Wall Street Journal and Gawker Media. Look, you've got your creepy life goals, and I've got mine.
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