Valleywag

Caption Contest
Robert Scoble almost made Owen Thomas cry

By Owen Thomas, 10:01 AM on Tue Mar 11 2008, 887 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

Copy this whole post to another site

cancel

Your editor, awkwardly embraced at Six Lounge in Austin. (Photo by Caroline McCarthy)

More about Owen Thomas

Nick Denton

Extremely literal boss demotes editor to columnist
In the wake of his apocalyptic predictions for the online-advertising market, Nick Denton, the owner of Valleywag publisher Gawker Media, read my offhand quip about how I would soon be writing Valleywag as a column for Gizmodo or Gawker, whichever will take me" as a brilliant business suggestion,...

MetaFilter

1,259 insults on one page
As a human being with a soul in there somewhere, I've avoided blogging about the Xeni-Violet scandal. But as a wannabe comedy writer, I found myself obsessively poring over the 1,200-plus Metafilter comments on our report.

Housekeeping

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.

Read More: Caption Contest, Owen Thomas, Robert Scoble, self-referential, too insidery, Valleywag

Loading comments ...

San Francisco, 7:55 AM
Sat Jul 11
42 posts in the last 24 hours

Tip Your Editors:
tips@valleywag.com | AIM

Valleywag:
Ryan Tate | Email

Valleywag elsewhere on the Web:
Twitter | Facebook

Valleywags Emeriti:
Nick Denton
Nick Douglas
Owen Thomas