<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, fail]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, fail]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/fail http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/fail <![CDATA[Slate's shipment of fail has been ... oh, never mind]]> Slate — never heard of it, I asked Paul and he says it's an online magazine for the Olds — is trying to figure out why Internet people like to say "fail." It's because they like to "express [their] schadenfreude out loud," and it's one syllable shorter than "failure." And here I was thinking it's because 4chan kiddies and Twitter freaks are lemmings and will repeat everything until the humor has been bled dry.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5064600&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[2008 failure forecast]]> I normally decline to make predictions, because what really happens is always weirder. But Valleywag's official 2008 list was such a borefest — I thought I was reading BusinessWeek or Battelle — that I cracked. Here's my fearless outlook.

  1. TechCrunch, GigaOm, VentureBeat and Read/Write Web will merge into one giant Voltron-like supersite I don't read. Whoops, already happened.
  2. Apple evangelists are right: A second-generation Apple TV will have twice the success the first model did. What's two times zero?
  3. Google will have the most amazingly innovative layoff ever.

(Illustration by Uncov)

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=336988&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Technoratarded]]> Sometimes a screenshot is worth 1,000 words.

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