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more about #valleywag more comments → raincoaster: Dylan, not if your servers go down again. more » twig: The NSA has a long history in advising to non-government security standards. Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" notes that several of the fundamental ... more » Drunken Economist: Seeing as the bulk of Windows IT and development is outsourced and offshored, how is this a bad idea? Corps and end users really don't care where the... more » scroll_lock: I had no idea this existed. Now I'm newly obsessed. more » daveyjonesisdead: apart from the privacy aspects - and I have no doubt the collaboration did not enhance privacy - why does the government cooperate with some companies... more » DTurkin: Based on the 'takes one to know one' principle, I reckon the NSA should have had some important insight on maintaining privacy. Maybe they also collab... more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Oh sure, like Gawker hasn't had a long, tawdry relationship with SIS. more » Foster Kamer: #Yes. But also, I kind of do want to mail April Winchell a check. Regretsy is awesome. #ThingsWeActuallyLike #BookDealsWeCanGetBehind more » Tremonius: If the `spawn of a former Yahoo CEO' demands of a bouncer "just fucking Google me, you dumb fuck" then the search wars are already lost, and Microsof... more » random_play: Ok, I admit it. I want to see her sex video. You know there's at least one out there, and it has to be good. That mouth was designed for one thing. more » nicepony: As my grandmother said; You get the face you deserve. more » raincoaster: She always looks like a really mediocre tranny Mariah Carey impersonator. more » CumaeanSibyl: Look, netbooks already suck. Why not have an OS that's designed to suck in the exact same way? At least it won't have additional, completely useless f... more » raincoaster: My friend Yam says that soon the prompt will be "Sup?" [twitter.com] more » raincoaster: They're right about Chrome; it would suck, but you have to reset your Options to get the suckage to work. Also, Mediate needs a Tumblr so it has no e... more » -
#twitterati
How To Be a Man, By Lance Armstrong
David Karp lectured the twittering masses on acting "classy," Lance Armstrong held forth on what Real Men don't do on the internet, and Andrew Keen detested your inspirational quotes. The Twitterati were feeling judgy. More » -
#mightyhavefallen
Josh Harris' Sunday Styles Treatment: The Ultimate Tech Cautionary Tale
Josh Harris—the Silicon Valley O.G. who washed up when the 1.0 tech bubble burst—had his second life profiled by the Sunday Styles. Harris is the ultimate Where Are They Now? of the tech scene. And where is he? More » -
#nerdfight
The Blog-War Revenge of Brooklyn's Hipsters
Matt Mullenweg should be proud; his giant WordPress.com has reportedly earned him millions. But his blog-platform rival, Tumblr founder David Karp, just surpassed him in one key metric. Mullenweg can blame Brooklyn one-upsmanship. More » -
#curses
The Voodoo Curse of Julia Allison's Dog on Tech Companies
Theory: the closer internet persona(e) (non grata) Julia Allison gets to your internet startup, the more it's bound to falter. The breaking moment comes when her dog shits on your carpet. More » -
#videuhoh
New York Times Writer Learns about 'Internets' at SXSW
In the '90s, the Web cognoscenti joked about doing crack. But New York Times columnist David Carr actually did crack! Which might explain his befuddlement in this clip from the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin. More » -
#rants
South By Southwest Is a Pointless Party
Why does the tech world get a throwdown in Austin when the banks have had to cancel their bashes? The news out of South By Southwest shows that Web hipsters are every bit as bankrupt. More »
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#tumblr
New Tumblr Stumble Renews Censorship Scandal
There's an old saying: Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. The latest exemplar: Tumblr CEO David Karp, who keeps getting charged with squelching his users' freedom of speech. More » -
#mistakesweremade
Tumblr CEO Acts His Age on Censorship Dilemma
David Karp, the 22-year-old CEO of blogging startup Tumblr, has decided he doesn't want to be in the business of censorship after all. Now everyone's free to make fun of his friend Julia Allison. More » -
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#theinternet
Julia Allison: I'm 'Thrilled' Tumblr Muzzled My Hecklers
At least one blogger has condemned Tumblr for deleting her "reblogger" critics, writing "don't those cunts have the same freedom of blog rights that the rest of us?" But Julia Allison is "proud." More » -
#censorship
Deblogging Julia
An anonymous critic of microcelebrity egoblogger Julia Allison has been silenced, all in the name of "freedom of expression." Welcome to the wacky world of Tumblr, New York's pinchy-cheeked hypercute blogging startup. More » -
#bloggingfordollars
Yahoo Might Buy Tumblr, New York's Cutest Startup
We hear Yahoo is in talks to buy Tumblr, a blogging startup run by 22-year-old David Karp for "low-to-mid eight figures" — which would translate to a small fortune for the New York entrepreneur. More »
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#fieldguide
David Karp
This kid, David Karp, the Tumblr founder—he's now a confirmed (notional) multimillionaire! That means it's time for a field guide, in case you need to hit him up for money soon. Which you will. More »
