It didn't use to matter who specifically was responsible for delivering. Now everyone's grabbing on to things that are significant to say why they're there. Rehashing job descriptions. There's lots of internal jockeying and posturing. No one wants to be the person without a seat when the music ends.

Right now, the people who are in the most senior positions are the most nervous because of what happened to Karin Timpone. Generally acknowledged as strong asset, she went into too much strategy and didn't have a definite role. So when it came time to define things, she got let go. The perception was that she was redundant.

And now for the Kremlinology: Karin Gilford, head of Yahoo Entertainment, seems like the big winner here. Amy Iorio, the widely disliked executive whose team launched women's site Shine, loses out. Moore's mostly winnowing the number of direct reports he has — which should give him more time to call old pals in Redmond. And Rogers? Got out while the getting was good.

In case you guys hadn't heard, the work is finally finished on the permanent YMG space in Santa Monica. We've been moved around to a couple of different permanent spaces in the last year, but we've finally moved into Lloyd's vision of the future of the Yahoo! Media Group. And in that future, former TV execs will treat internet employees with as much contempt as his network staffers undoubtedly suffered. (I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this.)

Here are some quick highlights of the new work space:

• The 6th floor is the exclusive domain of the executives. Regular employees' security badges won't open the doors, and the receptionists up there make it clear that none of us peons should be up there.

• Cubicle walls have been shortened to about 4', so now you have no privacy, and it's pretty much impossible to do ANYTHING louder than typing without completely distracting or annoying your neighbors. Having to whisper while on conference calls is particularly fun. I'm not sure why we didn't just get desks.
• We used to have a nice, big breakroom with a few tables, and some games and a flatscreen TV. It served as a lunchroom and lounge (a lot of us watched the World Cup in there); but that's gone. Apparently we're not supposed to get together with co-workers anymore.

I bring this stuff up because in spite of a lot of chaos in the last few years, Yahoo! has been a cool, creative place to work; now it's pretty obvious that Lloyd & Terry [Semel, CEO] think that there's no excuse for us to actually enjoy our jobs. I guess the message is that we all just need to shut the fuck up and get back to work. (On stupid shit like The Nine.) Anyone else that's going to move down here from Sunnyvale is in for an ugly surprise.

Yahoo landing Vince Broady is HUGE. The guy is a big swinging dick. Founder of Gamespot and one of the biggest sources of revenue for CNET. Basically, this guy can run circles around Lloyd. I don't think Lloyd's stock is rising at all — if I were Lloyd I'd be sprucing up the resume.

Vince is an asshole, but he's a brilliant product guy — unlike Lloyd. And he rejoins his Gamespot cofounder Pete Deemer, who is VP of products at Yahoo.

Meanwhile, a commenter writes that Lloyd Braun brought David Katz to Yahoo, and that Katz's new Yahoo Studios falls under Braun's domain. So while Lloyd isn't out of the woods yet, he's got his original content studio. Now, Lloyd, just don't make that puppet-anchored news show and you're safe.

Earlier: Hot tip: Lloyd Braun back in business [Valleywag]

He left shortly after his speech and after having a fight with richard after he bombed. A shame really because the yahoo folks are smart and get it and he didn't serve them. Others can tell you the details of how his speech missed the mark. Its some combo of his not being at the conf and getting the conversation, the fact that the session 10 minutes before his zereod in on the rise of the audience and instead of adding to that theme (a natural for yahoo) he wandered back to 1998 in vision, and perhaps that he gets web 2.0 in his head but not his gut. He and wurman had a spat. He was pissed richard didn't interview him and just sent him out to give a talk, and wurman was pissed that braun was not at the conf all along and thus felt an interview inappropriate since and interview should tie to earlier speakers.

After his talk dropped by the yahoo party for a moment and left never to be seen again for three days. Though his, ugh, memory lingered on and was a topic of much conversation till the very end.

The only question is, why did Yahoo's next ex-executive even bother showing up?

Update: USA Today's Kevin Maney says that during his speech, Braun was "exhausted, unprepared and seemingly clueless about the audience's sophistication level."

Presenters [EG 2006]
Previously: Yahoo's media boss: so out [Valleywag]
And: Missing: Lloyd Braun [Valleywag]

(Thanks, Paul.)
Dear Prudence [Slate]