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Kindle Thief Tortures Owner with Crappy Book Buys

Ryan Tate — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:50:57 EDT

The Twitterati ended the week punchy: Kevin Rose was plundering sofware; Anil Dash gleefully promoted the term "Facesquatting" and Mark Glaser lost his Kindle to a teenaged girl.

PBS' Mark Glaser watched helplessly as a thief ruined his Amazon recommendations for the next 18 months.

Digg's Kevin Rose tried to bait Steve Jobs into a swordfight.

Six Apart blogging pimp Anil Dash opened up a second, linguistic line of attack against the mainstream media.

Revision 3's Patrick Norton was officially called a frightening gadget freak by the Feds.

Celebrity gossip Bonnie Fuller gleefully took credit for one of the most obvious casting decisions in reality-TV history.

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Veronica Belmont signs on to Revision3's Tekzilla

Jackson West — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Sexy geek Veronica Belmont's new gig is with technology review and tip show Tekzilla, which is produced by Revision3 and is currently hosted by TechTV veteran Patrick Norton. The news comes on the heels of last week's announcement that she'll be leaving as the sole host of Mahalo Daily. Tekzilla can expect a good boost in the show's audience numbers as Belmont fans follow her to her new co-hosting gig. And Revision3's dodgeball team just got that much harder to beat. Update: Veronica will appear on Friday's show, and has another project in the works — which is not a new video show for RCRD LBL, we hear.(Photo by Lisa Brewster)

In a podcast with Leo LaPorte, Patrick Norton...

Owen Thomas — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:05:12 EDT

In a podcast with Leo LaPorte, Patrick Norton admits that he's joining Revision3, the online-video startup staffed by many of his former coworkers at TechTV, the late, lamented nerd-news cable channel. [The Week In Tech]

Revision3 COO David Prager, asked to confirm...

Owen Thomas — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:45:46 EDT

Revision3 COO David Prager, asked to confirm that Patrick Norton is leaving the Ziff-Davis-owned DL.TV to join his online-video company, answers with a silence that speaks volumes. [Twit.tv]

Revision3's new face keeps it all in the family

Owen Thomas — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:24:25 EDT

More than one tipster tells us that Patrick Norton is leaving Ziff-Davis's DL.TV, and, after a brief paternity leave, joining Revision3. DL.TV, of course, was the brainchild of Jumpin' Jim Louderback, the former PC Magazine editor who's now Revision3's CEO. And before Ziff-Davis, Louderback and Norton worked together at TechTV, where Norton was the host of the popular "Screen Savers" show — the same show that later birthed Revision3 cofounder Kevin Rose's career. It's not a surprising hire, but it should answer any remaining questions about how crushingly insular the world of online video is.

Waggable: Has the spirit got you?

Nick Douglas — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:45:09 EDT

There's a reason the old phrase goes "eating your own dog food" — extend the metaphor, and you see why it's unhealthy for a pundit to believe what he feeds to viewers. A reader reports:

"What's his face from dl.tv [Former 'Screen Savers' TV co-host Patrick Norton] was just walking around the office with some other dude, debating about whether the other dude was merely a product market or a 'product evangelist.'"

Ugh.

Geek out: We'll miss you, Orlowski

Nick Douglas — Fri, 26 May 2006 15:08:21 EDT

Hacks and flacks wished Andrew Orlowski (pictured, the one with his hair on top) farewell last night with a calm happy hour at the Edinburgh Castle Pub. His exit dilutes the pool of Valley journalism, as the Register reporter was a long-time snarker and Google hound (one confident enough to snub Google Press Day). Now, after five years in the Valley, he's headed back to England.

At Orlowski's goodbye party last night, the crowd included John Gilmore (Sun employee #5 and the creator of alt.* on Usenet), long-time Apple troll John C. Dvorak, and ZDNet reporter Dan Farber. Even the NYT's John Markoff broke away from his crowd of screaming fangirls to raise a glass for Orlowski. Spark PR picked up the tab and fixed the guy-girl ratio. As 'wag readers know, PR ladies are the coolest.

After the jump, more photos from Farber.

"Hey Dvorak, make that face you made when you finally got spam today."

"And how many times have you awkwardly commented on Leo Laporte's delivery during This Week in Tech?"

With the death of TechTV, Screen Savers host Patrick Norton had to trade his leather briefcase for a Jansport backpack.

Photos: Andrew Orlowski Send Off [Dan Farber on Flickr]