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more about #valleywag more comments → If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Yup, you betcha' I'm going to get Sarah to sign my book and I'll buy two and she'll sign both and one I'll keep and one I'll sell on eBay, and Sarah w... more » MrHaroHaro: Someone in the video says "Quittin' on the job". They say that as if they should be surprised. more » Claire Buoyant: Well, she is quite the quitter, isn't she? Maybe some of the people who didn't get their books signed will post their feelings on Palin's Facebook and... more » Baroness: Wow, Martha's delightfully frank there. Prison hardens a person, and she knows Palin's never had to carve her own shiv out of a toothbrush. Pish. (... more » Banjo-Sea Kitten: Now there's two of them to hate. One for being Sarah and the other one for thinking she's a super cool lookalike in her bumpit and homemade pin. Go ho... more » Trai_Dep: I'm struggling to figure out how Fox News will blame Teh Liberals for Palin fans going rabid ferret insane on-camera after Palin pulled a Palin and qu... more » Lysergic Asset: Apparently, at least one of her clones is contractually obligated to appear at each book signing. more » Foster Kamer: By the way, that image above - aside from my dutiful filling in of what's parenthetically implied - is actually the image on Beck's site. Not joking. more » DennyCrane: MY TWO-MINUTE, ONE-STEP PLAN FOR GLENN BECK: 1) Jump into fire. more » Lysergic Asset: We're all laughing now, but it's not going to be funny if these folks are in charge: more » Trai_Dep: I think the first iteration of this movement was much more stirring, original and effective. Fueled by classic idioms like Work Shall Set You Free, We... more » kappakappaspankme: Wot? A new world order? O.O more » SaraRueful: "limited government, maximum freedom" Whoa, so Beck is pro-choice and in favor of letting any consenting adult marry? I might have to rethink this guy! more » BettyCrocker: If Beck is so damn patriotic, why doesn't he do something really spectacular, like catapult himself into space with 4 roman candles jammed up his hoo-... more » CumaeanSibyl: Yes, Glenn let's all take a great leap forward into the libertarian future. more » -
#bookdeals
Regretsy Book to Be Not Quite as Good as Regretsy.com
The heretofore anonymous founder of Regretsy, the blog that appropriately mocks your dumb arts-and-crafts projects, has been outed. Because she got a book deal! New blog-to-book trend: Saying right up front the book will be more paltry than the blog. More » -
#breakups
Julia Allison's Secret, Staggeringly Heartbreaking Boyfriend
Julia Allison has broken up with her unlikely boyfriend, Christopher "Toph" Eggers. Yes, that Eggers: the younger brother of author Dave Eggers written about in Eggers' breakthrough memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
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#jobs
Google's Broken Hiring Process
Google strives to hire "the world's best engineers,"and has crafted an "interminable" interview process dotted with puzzles and brainteasers to do so. One little problem: the process tends to give the worst scores to the best future employees. More » -
#urbananthropology
Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
Twitter's not all narcissistic minutiae and celebrity retweets: Jonathan Ames used it to obtain a TV, from his employer, via "whining." More » -
#magic
Newspaper Lady to Explain Internet, In Book
This "The Internet" thing is nice, but we often think: What it really needs is a self-proclaimed arbiter of its cultural relevance to undertake the preposterouslyimpossibleambitious task of explaining the entire internet. In a book. Hello, Virginia Heffernan! More » -
#oversharers
Twitter-Phobic Martha Stewart Fears Wrath of Snoop Dogg
Martha Stewart's all-internet-geek show was a clash of cultures just as we predicted. Here's a clip of the domestic media diva refusing former Valleywag Nick Douglas' entreaties to share a little backstage color. Stewart, you see, fears her guests. More » -
#modernandawkward
Web Geek Creates World's Most Confusing Fundraising Scheme
When the beloved geek comic xkcd finally signed a book deal, it involved no profits and no bookstores. Now its author is taking a similarly unconventional approach to philanthropy. Sorry, poor children of Laos! More » -
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#marketing
You Wrote My Twitter Book, Now Promote It!
You have to admire the online chutzpah of HarperCollins and Nick Douglas. Having sourced the contents of Twitter Wit entirely for free from the microblogging service, the publisher is now attempting to crowdsource its marketing campaign. And so boldly! More » -
#foodwars
Prissy Food Bloggers Hate Food Blogger Movie
Julie Powell blogged her way through cooking every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking; a book deal and movie followed. Are food bloggers thrilled for her? Hardly; Powell is a foodie infidel who must be stopped.
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#takebacks
Amazon.com Sorry For Stealing Your Kindle Books, Being Creepy
Hey, remember that time Jeff Bezos snuck in to your place and stole from your bookshelf that one time, before silently slipping away into the night? The Amazon.com CEO feels awful.
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#facebook
Worst Lines from Facebook Tell-All
It's being turned into a movie by Aaron Sorkin, but Ben Mezrich's book about the creation of Facebook is apparently as badly written as a typical status update on Facebook. Janet Maslin's New York Times review is unsparing. More » -
#books
Deleting is Publishing, And Amazon Never Removed 1984 From Your Kindle
Is Amazon.com just trying to be creepy? It's already headed by a "chuckling maniac" being sued over defective Kindles and swindling newspapers on the e-book reader. Now his company is quietly deleting people's Kindle books. It's Orwellian. Literally. More » -
#feuds
Warring Twitter Books in Publication Race
First came former Valleywag Nick Douglas' Twitter book deal with HarperCollins, followed within a month by New York Times columnist David Pogue and his similar compilation of tweets for O'Reilly. Now Pogue is trying to leapfrog. More » -
#moguls
Facebook Movie Turns Sean Parker Into Rock Star
The blog ScriptShadow got hold of the first draft of Aaron Sorkin's Facebook movie. The verdict? The movie reads oddly mesmerizing, and has an unexpected hero: Sean Parker, an early investor in the social network. More » -
#strugglingwriters
Exploiting the Blog-to-Book Bubble: A Guide
Two blogs, Texts From Last Night and Look at this Fucking Hipster, scored contracts at Penguin's Gotham Books imprint in the past week, the latest in an endless series of such deals. Shouldn't you get a piece of the action? More » -
#nerdfight
Condé Nast's Grumpy East Coast-West Coast Feud
Big Ideas Author Malcolm Gladwell, a Manhattanite of the New Yorker, has issued a smackdown review of Free, the book from Big Ideas Author Chris Anderson, a Berkeleyan of San Francisco's Wired. If that's not provocative enough, Gladwell sounds downright grumpy. More » -
#scandal
How the Crescent City Revealed Wired's Plagiarizing Editor
How did the Virginia Quarterly Review connect Chris Anderson's book to Wikipedia, thus unraveling a plagiarism scandal? A strange use of parentheses. More » -
#books
Facebook Tell-All Has Founders Banging Groupies in Bathroom Stalls
Ben Mezrich's forthcoming Facebook exposé was sold to film producers before it was even written. The Hollywood influence helps explain why the book answers such pressing questions as, "Who might the co-founders have conceivably boned, and where?"
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#books
Wired Editor Steals Content for Book About How Content Should be Free
Chris Anderson has been caught lifting huge chunks out of Wikipedia for his book Free. The irony speaks for itself. But it's worth noting that the Wired editor's excuses are disconcertingly clichéd. More »
