Valleywag

Superficial
Kara Swisher slaps bear, runs off to Alaska

By Jackson West, 3:00 PM on Tue Aug 19 2008, 740 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

Copy this whole post to another site

cancel

After slapping our beloved sweaterbear Owen Thomas for his description of Sheryl Sandberg's "reign of terror" at Facebook, Kara Swisher has left the lower 48 and hopped on a boat bound for Alaska. While bears may seem cuddly, danger may lurk in their embrace. Since we wouldn't want anything bad to happen to our favorite mommyblogger, here are some helpful tips on bear safety from your friends here at Valleywag. (Photo by B Mully)

More about Kara Swisher

Yahoo

If only Yahoo would listen to Kara Swisher, she might stop emailing me
"Yahoo striking a Microsoft search deal first makes more sense" than closing a merger with AOL, writes overproductive BoomTown blogger Kara Swisher. Tracking the complicated, self-conflicting relationships between Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft and Google is like trying to read Prince Valiant without a...

Crash This Bash

Disinvite your favorite reporter from the Google holiday party
It's becoming a holiday tradition: Google announces a holiday party for Silicon Valley reporters at its Mountain View headquarters, and Valleywag's invite gets mysteriously lost in Gmail's ever-canny spam filters. More »

wedding announcements

Kara Swisher discloses she married Google exec
A disclosure statement is an odd place for a wedding announcement. But that is where conference organizer and AllThingsD blogger Kara Swisher has buried the news that she married her longtime partner, Google vice president Megan Smith, last night, before the passage of Proposition 8, California's ga... More »

Read More: Superficial, Kara Swisher, Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, great moments in journalism, Valleywag

Loading comments ...

San Francisco, 3:07 PM
Fri Jul 10
53 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