Drunk editor kills the gossip item you care about - Valleywag Comments

Drunk editor kills the gossip item you care about

Duncan — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:33:29 PDT

You know if you keep apologizing Nick might give you the boot Owen :-)
Good post though, it's good to admit you get it wrong some times, it keeps you honest.
Only thing you missed in the original post is superimposing a drunk outside of the 365 Main building, that would have made for an even better post :-)

Duncan

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Randall — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:16:36 PDT

Valleywag is 10,000 times better now. At least you'll admit when you're wrong, whereas prior editors just stuck with their "version of the truth."

Randall

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Jeremy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:36:35 PDT

I still got love for ya, buddy, but got opinions on the site.

Jeremy

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DaveMcClure500Hats — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:01:18 PDT

nice job with the photo. your penance: use that as your avatar until the next power outage. or until 365 goes under, which is more likely to happen first.

DaveMcClure500Hats

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Drew — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:14:31 PDT

beer?

Drew

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Kevin Murphy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:03:11 PDT

Respect.

Kevin Murphy

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calaverasgrandes — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:13:05 PDT

Cool maybe I'll get some work moving some of those servers! I'll IM my project lead right now.

calaverasgrandes

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seanpercival — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:22:43 PDT

Its not real? DUH?

However, bravo for admitting to it, next time this happens (and it will) just keep your apology a little shorter? That post almost needed to start with "It was a cold night in December 1974...."

seanpercival

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rcarydon — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:49:52 PDT

I have to agree with the others saying an apology isn't necessary. What credibility or integrity was there to damage? No harm, no foul.

rcarydon

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GinaMuchava — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:33:04 PDT

This place is a nut troller coaster of epic proportions.

GinaMuchava

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AlexHG — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:14:33 PDT

YOU HAVE BEEN TROLLED BY NUT ROLLERS

AlexHG

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caletucker — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:47:31 PDT

dude, you don't need to apologize. this is valleywag. who cares?

caletucker

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judemaier — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:38:12 PDT

And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.

Sorry, couldn't resist...

judemaier

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bbucy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:13:42 PDT

@cmowire: Thanks for the reminder. It also ruined my comment about selling T-shirts that said "Please Don't Feed the Nut Rollers." I may have to rethink my earlier comment of support.

bbucy

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rafe — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:45:13 PDT

Mark Twain understood bloggers. He said (I think it was him):

"Write drunk. Edit sober."

A code to live by.

rafe

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cmowire — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:39:08 PDT

"Trolled by nut rollers" brought a big smile to my face all day yesterday.

Now I'm going to have to find other ways to get that feeling. If I end up homeless, on drugs, and begging for change outside 365 Main, it will be ALL YOUR FAULT.

Damn journalists, letting the truth get in the way of a good story. :(

cmowire

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Blackjack — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:28:17 PDT

No one's expecting the Wag to be Cnet. All you had to do was say "my bad, I got pwned, there was no drunk, mea culpa."

Now go buy Megan a drink or three.

Blackjack

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Collins1990 — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:27:11 PDT

I think you're forgiven.

Collins1990

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Chris W — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:10:58 PDT

You forgot to promise to check yourself into a drive-thru rehab center.

Chris W

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bbucy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:07:07 PDT

Read Valleywag's description of itself in the upper left-hand corner of the screen, remove the hair shirt and get back to work debasing people.

bbucy

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mblevin — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:51:23 PDT

Your mea culpa may be the longest piece you've ever had published - congratulations!

mblevin

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ashkan — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:50:00 PDT

two things:

- i didn't know valleywag was about reporting news, so dont worry ;)

- that's why i am in the infotainment business, when wrong, i chalk it up to the entertainment side of things...

besides, you're batting average is still better than a VCs, or, I guess, a baseball player.

ashkan

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Bleys — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:47:38 PDT

I am not in any way associated with 365Main; I'm just an opinionated engineer :)

The fact that four generators failed at the same time isn't at all surprising IMHO.

Those generators are off 99.99% of the time; they only get switched on in the event of a power failure.

Moreover, they were probably never switched on after they were installed; companies are traditionally reluctant to do large-scale tests of their disaster recovery systems (redundant power, restoring from backup, etc): yes, they're *supposed* to work, but it's really really bad if they don't... ignorance is bliss.

So if the generators were defective, or installed incorrectly, it's likely that it would have never been noticed until they were first put into good use -- that is, this Tuesday.

Also, "social engineering" is not "the art of using technical means to get human beings to do their bidding", but quite the opposite -- the art of using human beings to accomplish technical goals :) See [en.wikipedia.org])

Bleys

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Tim Faulkner — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:46:51 PDT

If astronauts can do it, editors can too. Right?

[www.cnn.com]

Tim Faulkner

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fatbastard — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:42:34 PDT

"I got trolled by nutrollers," would have sufficed.

BTW, wtf is Technorati doing with 500 servers? That's some seriously bloated code.

fatbastard

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loutang82 — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:37:09 PDT

Don't drink and write.

loutang82

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centernetworks — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:25:56 PDT

Owen - a tip. When you apologize for something. Just apologize.

This type of apology/redirect is popular online and I am not sure why. Everyone screws up, it's fine. But don't pull something else into the same post. It "cheapens" the apology. This is the "I am sorry BUT" response.

The part about "questions are still there on 365" is valid but not inside an apology post. Move it to a sep. post.

centernetworks

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eze — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:19:19 PDT

The reality of the tech-news blogosphere is that you don't always have time to meticulously research breaking stories. Tough break, man. Hang in there.

eze

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Megan McCarthy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:15:00 PDT

Wait, does that title mean we can't drink on the job anymore?

Megan McCarthy

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Tim Faulkner — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:07:04 PDT

Here's to that image getting lots and lots of future use, Owen!

Tim Faulkner