Corporate branding gone awry - Valleywag Comments

Corporate branding gone awry

andrewjscott — Fri, 18 May 2007 06:22:12 PDT

pimpmyPR - oh come on there is nothing like be grumpy cantankerous cynical and horrible to everyone. I should know, I'm English.

Valleywag will evolve - and hopefully along the same acid tounged but ultimately self-deprecating lines of Bazil in Fawlty Towers ... aloof but flawed self assuredness. The last thing we need is another balanced benefit-of-the-doubt tech blog or writer targetting their pet hates but lavishing praise and defence on their loves.

Target everyone thats what I say! ... surely a worthy goal by any blog's standards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB0d0COybJ0

andrewjscott

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Nick Douglas — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:07:37 PDT

@renaissancechambara: We still have a chance to make that the decade's top catchphrase! "Yahoo that bitch!"

Nick Douglas

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pimpmyPR — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:24:49 PDT

@Rockwell: oh well - I guess that's me told

pimpmyPR

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Rockwell — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:27:11 PDT

"Does anyone else think the carping tone of Valleywag is getting a bit lame?"

No.

"It seems the writers have nothing but contempt for everyone and everything in our little part of the world."

Would that be Yahoo's part of the world, or PR's part of the world, or technology in general? If you're referring to either of the first two, the contempt is generally deserved.

Rockwell

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renaissancechambara — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:24:39 PDT

"Do you Yahoo!" That's sooooooo last millenium

I preferred 'Yahoo! That Bitch" now we're cookin'

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-FDuiCSg4eqinB8z.GGJ7TmAz?p=...

renaissancechambara

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toasterhunter — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:56:48 PDT

The Yahoos I know absolutely covet any BLACK sharpie they can get their hands on - as 99% of the available sharpies at Yahoo! are said Purple.

The story I heard was that Yellow and Purple were the cheapest colors of paint available at the company's first headquarters.

toasterhunter

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pimpmyPR — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:56:44 PDT

Does anyone else think the carping tone of Valleywag is getting a bit lame? It seems the writers have nothing but contempt for everyone and everything in our little part of the world.

I suggest you check in with your colleagues at Deadspin. They poke fun at sport but obviously love it. They are also funny. You guys only love your own soap-box and egos.

pimpmyPR

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Dafydd — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:46:20 PDT

Thanks for that. I work for IBM, and I can say we don't have near this kind of "monoculture." After all, we're, y'know, ADULTS. Y'all in the Valley might want to try it sometime.

Dafydd