Owen Thomas leaves Valleywag for NBC

Valleywag Editor Owen Thomas is leaving the Gawker Media empire for greener pastures at NBC, according naturally to Valleywag. Thomas joined Valleywag in 2007 from Business 2.0, and oversaw the demise of the site from a multi-person dedicated ... continue

Blog War! Arrington blames AllThingsD, Valleywag for hate campaign

TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington has publicly named Valleywag, and AllThingD as leading the hate campaign that led to him being spat on in Germany, and stalked. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal (which owns AllThingsD) Arrington ... continue

LA gets its own Tech News and Gossip site Lalawag

Sean Percival, formerly with Mahalo and known to many as a strong Second Life advocate (he also wrote a book on the subject) has launched Lalawag, a tech gossip and news blog for Southern California. Percival says ... continue

Valleywag to close, become Gawker column instead

No sooner had we hit publish on the possible Gawker cuts ahead post then we find the latest news. Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag is to cease as a stand alone site and will instead become a ... continue

Cuts coming to Gawker Media, Denton claims wide model is over

UPDATE: since publishing this post, Valleywag has been cut. Details here. UPDATE 2: Consumerist is officially on the market Gawker Media head Nick Denton delivered another doom and gloom essay today, arguing that advertising online is headed for a ... continue

Being An MIT Dropout Doesn’t Save Boutin From Being An Idiot

The word has come down from the mount folks. Courtesy of people like Jason Calacanis and Robert Scoble who have in the words of his eminence of verbal buffoonery Paul Boutin shown that blogging has become the ... continue

Want To Know Why Twitter Keeps Going Down? They’re All Stoned

Via Valleywag, Twitter developer Alex Payne explains what the real problem with Twitter's team maybe be drugs: I guess that latest $15 million buys some serious weed. An explanation of "smoking a bowl" here, and remember, the next ... continue