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Stephen Colbert Admits He Has 'Twatted'
Twitter is "the latest computer craze," according to easily startled Today hostess Meredith Vieira, who didn't get the answer she expected from wacky Stephen Colbert when she asked if he used the microblogging service. Watch! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by David Margolis: twat and cocaine! I am a concerned citizen whose has become aware of a small scandal in the war on drugs... 22 Responses | Other threads
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The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: β ββ
An airplane flies into two vertical objects: For many ordinary New Yorkers, it's a horrible, still-living memory. For Internet commenters, it's absolutely hilarious. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Well, it certainly merits the echo chambering you so neatly provided it with. I like your stuff, Owen. Really, I... 10 Responses | Other threads
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Culture of Complaint
Colorado man faces jail for being a commentard
The Internet has numbed us all to insults. That's what's so scandalous about the news that J.P. Weichel, a 40-year-old Colorado man, could land in prison for calling his ex-girlfriend a whore.
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By Owen ThomasComment by bluelines: OK, I get that technically he did "call his ex-girlfriend a whore", but that makes it sound like the kind... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Deathcasting
Suicide by webcam
Lifecasting, a kind of do-it-yourself reality TV broadcast on the Internet, has thousands of practitioners. Until last night, one of them was Abraham Biggs, a 19-year-old Florida resident, who used a webcam to broadcast his death, too. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Shadowlayer: FUCK! how come nobody called police? This says a lot about what kind of people uses this service. Whats next? manhunt? 5 Responses | Other threads
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GM's scare tactics fail to win over YouTube users
General Motors has posted its call for an auto-industry bailout directly to the Net, with predictably disastrous results. GM marketers have clearly fallen for the myth of Internet PR — that taking a company's message directly to the people through social media will give it a much friendlier reception than if it is filtered through the mainstream media. The reality? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by isights: I think Barack is on the right track. We need to do somethng, but we also need to get EVERYONE... 1 Responses | Other threads
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CNET founder now just another angry Internet commenter
Is Halsey Minor the "bad boy of Silicon Valley," as Portfolio recently dubbed him? The moniker may not be geographically precise — the founder of CNET turned venture capitalist has a house in San Francisco, not Woodside or Atherton. But what the magazine really should have called him was the bad boy of the blogosphere. Minor obsessively comments on stories about him, with detailed but completely off-topic critiques of the writer's prose. Take, for example, his reaction to the post Thomson Reuters reporter Connie Loizos wrote about Minor's failed attempts to buy a racetrack in Florida: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Tiki Tonga: halsey minor has earned the right at the table to say whatever he wants whenever wants about whom he wants,... 2 Responses | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
Top 10 commenters TechCrunch is afraid of
I understand it's still Tough Times, Tough Decisions month. But a layoff at TechCrunch would have been better than a post by TechCrunch's leader criticizing the site's commenters. It's a slow news morning here, too, so I'll reblog the best entry, No. 3: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by kimbjo: luckily i use my neighbours free wifi connection to surf valleywag. 1 Responses | Other threads
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Be careful what you write about Glam
It's a predictable routine: Write about Glam Media, Samir Arora's dangerously bubbly online-advertising startup, and get bombarded by comments from website operators for whom Glam sells ads. The latest victim: Saul Hansell of the New York Times, who dared to point out that most of Glam's traffic comes not from the kind of high-quality, editorially driven websites his salespeople promise to advertisers, but from horoscopes, social networks, and gaming sites. Two Glam publishers promptly weighed in. It almost makes one wonder if, like a political campaign, Arora gins up faux grassroots complaints. (Valleywag has attracted its own reliable Glam commenter, AretinaAegeus.) Like a well-done Astroturfing, as the process is known in politics, the comments seem genuine enough — original wording, no cutting-and-pasting of talking points. But the process may backfire on Arora. Goaded by the commenters, Hansell updated his piece with a more concise — and damning — explanation of why Glam may be scamming its advertisers: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by It Must Be Take a Worm for a Walk Week: Glam is the Amway of the internets. 1 Responses | Other threads
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Internet user wants automatic updates on Andrew Baron's dying dad
Andrew Baron, the founder of videoblog Rocketboom, has reported that his dad, prominent trial lawyer Fred Baron, is dying of cancer. His one chance, an experimental lifesaving drug, was denied by its manufacturer, Biogen Idec. We won't mention how Fred paid to relocate Rielle Hunter, the mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards, out of hte spotlight. Or how Baron pΓ¨re and fils fought over the funding of Rocketboom, which Fred supplied. No, we'll just point you to this grotesque demand from a commenter on FriendFeed, Peter Huesken: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by FlakJack: I see an iPhone app on the horizon. Also, maybe they can set up an RSS feed to all... more » | Other threads
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Charles Forman thinks you're fat
Let's keep this nerdfight short and sweet — no, make that bitter: New York-based blogger/consultant Allen Stern thinks New York-based videogame designer Charles Forman is jejune and uninteresting. Forman thinks Stern is fat. In a predictably deleted comment on Silicon Alley Insider, Forman rails at Stern for complaining about his frequent appearances at the New York Tech Meetup. Here's Forman's counterpoint: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Matthew_Maurice: Damn, I'm all for men owning several pairs of shoes, but having that many pairs of ugly ones is abusing... 3 Responses | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
Timesman David Pogue is a fragile flower
All those years in the theater on Broadway among catty drama types didn't thicken the skin of New York Times technology writer David Pogue much. Geek Out New York blogger John Teti wrote a clearly satirical piece wondering just how technology-savvy Pogue. His latest column described how you can use Google to search individual websites. Teti didn't even point out the misspelling of Facebook as "Facebok!" (Which I hear is the leading social networking site among South African antelopes.) The pile-on-Pogue post was clearly facetious, but that didn't stop Pogue from emailing Teti to complain. And then emailing again. And again. Pogue's initial, angry missive in full after the jump. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by noname5: Jackson, short on content today? Taking things out of context much? Bloidy nature of VW notwithstanding, you really stretched this... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Sergey Brin hates commenters even more than we do
Don't believe the hype that Google founder Sergey Brin is seeking to "open source" research on Parkinson's. Should you try to contribute, the very first thing you'll find is that Brin has disabled comments on his blog. "While I would like to receive and post many insightful comments," he writes in a disclaimer above the comment box, "realistically I am unlikely to be able to read through all of them and may accept very few or none at all." So far he's accepted none at all. Look, Sergey, if you're serious about curing Parkinson's, talk to the Accelerated Cure Project for multiple sclerosis. It's the same idea: Supersmart engineer/entrepreneur is diagnosed with disease, decides to put his skills to work rather than wait around for a miracle. Everyone else, feel free to post your comments here.
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By Paul BoutinComment by Goose Spruce: I tried to post a cure for Parkinsons on Sergeys blog, but got rejected due to no PhD. Oh well,... more » | Other threads
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Yelp protection racket alleged by anonymous cowards
A report from The Register claims that five business owners have complained to them that Yelp salespeople offered to "push bad reviews to the bottom" in exchange for an ad buy on the site. The story, based partly on several unnamed sources, leaves me skeptical. None of the sources claimed Yelp actually did move negative reviews out of sight after they'd bought a sponsored link. That backs CEO Jeremy Stoppelman's claim that they were probably duped by a "rogue salesman." But the article makes it easy to understand why people would pay up: The business owners who talked to The Reg in exchange for anonymity come across as more afraid of retaliation from Yelp commenters than from Yelp lawyers.
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By Paul BoutinComment by meg324: This is an important issue. I do write Yelp reviews, and try to be fair and ethical in doing so.... more » | Other threads
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Memo to the Web: If you're going to impersonate Google VP Marissa Mayer, please try to spell her name properly. And really, would Mayer be commenting on TechCrunch in the first place? [TechCrunch comments] -
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Memo to the Web: If you're going to impersonate me, please try to live up to my standards. It helps to use phrases like "You fascinate me" and "That seems easier." [TechCrunch comments]
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By Owen ThomasComment by raincoaster: Arrington is getting desperate. How many sock puppets constitute an army? more » | Other threads
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Internet commenter points out Ryan Block prettier than Moby
The commenter who has it out for Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block is emailing us again. The scandalous newsflash he has for us? That Block shaves his head, making him look a bit like the singer Moby. If you ask us, Moby looks like a much less handsome Ryan Block. (Photo by livedigitally)
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By Owen ThomasComment by yelohbird: why won't anyone confirm to me if the dude in this pic is ryan block?[gizmodo.com] more » | Other threads
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If this tip about Engadget's Ryan Block were in English, I bet it would be interesting
We tried to translate a tip, above, about some comment purportedly deleted by Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block, but we failed. Maybe it's revealing enough as is — about the would-be Engadget commenter, not Block. Click to expand the email. More » -
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Robert Scoble's cell phone number is totally 425 205 1921, people
Valleywag, this time, has gone too far. Or so some people believe. Yesterday, we posted Robert Scoble's cell phone number, which is 425 205 1921, in a picture. One reader was so outraged that he woke one of my reporters from a sound sleep to express his ire. This top-secret information has been been posted on every page of Scoble's own blog for three years — not to mention his Facebook profile. If you wish to think ill of Valleywag for posting the number, our only request: That you direct the same vitriol to Scoble himself. He awaits your calls. At 425 205 1921.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Carlos: for the record, the is totally , people thing still makes me laugh every time more » | Other threads
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By Owen ThomasComment by sample032: @deliriousnyc: Watch the video. He talked about it. more » | Other threads
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