Valleywag

Obituary
Lovably dorky blogger Russell Shaw dead

By Paul Boutin, 1:04 AM on Sun Mar 16 2008, 1,082 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

Copy this whole post to another site

cancel

Russell Shaw, the HuffPo contributor and former ZDNet and Weblogs, Inc blogger who good-naturedly took guff from us Engadget brats when I last saw him at CES 2006, "passed away while on a reporting trip in San Jose, traveling from his home base of Portland, Oregon" according to CNET editor in chief Dan Farber. A bit more detail from Andy Abramson.

More about Valleywag

Thanks Sponsors

Sponsor Shout-out
Thanks to this week's sponsors: Chevy Fuel Solutions, Cingular, Energizer, Games for Windows, Livescribe, Mercury Group, Nethawk, Nokia, Pernod, Sharp, Sonos, Zune.

Facebook

WaPo chief's Facebook board seat a $2 billion consolation prize
Don Graham, the Washington Post CEO, has joined Facebook's board of directors. Had he not been such a nice guy, he might have had the gig three years ago. Facebook's flacks are portraying the appointment as a sign of the maturation of the unruly social network launched in a college dorm.

Journalist Math

iPhone apps 97 percent play, 3 percent work
Apple's iPhone has some 2,000 apps available for download. Of those, 65 have some arguable business application, Ben Worthen notes in a Wall Street Journal blog. More »

Read More: Obituary, Valleywag

Loading comments ...

San Francisco, 9:22 PM
Thu Jul 9
43 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