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lycos
"Then we shattered it with a hammer": Wired says goodbye, Lycos
Wired News staffers suffered for years under the reign of Lycos before Cond Nast bought them this summer and reunited them with Wired Magazine (whose offices were, at the time of purchase, across the hall). Michael Calore of Wired News says: More » -
wired news
Wired Wiki: Wired News rips off Esquire
Wired News released an upcoming article on a wiki page this morning, asking readers to edit the story (about Wikipedia, natch) before the news outlet publishes it on September 7. In the buzz that will follow, everyone will refer to the LA Times' failed experiment of building a wiki from scratch. But few will recall that Esquire pulled this off a year ago with its own Wikipedia article. More » -
google
Loose wires: I'm the urban space historian, baby
- Wired News catches a writer faking a source: a "space historian" cited in three articles. Of course, if Wired wants a space historian, they should just bring back R. U. Sirius. [Wired News]
- Google co-heads Larry and Sergey reached a settlement with the interior designer of their Boeing 767. The blabbermouth agreed to stop telling the press how embarrassing the whole process was. Now Larry and Sergey can get back to important matters, like arguing over how many hammocks Larry can have in his room. [NY Sun]
- Local blog Starked SF writes a roundup of Silicon Valley's stock options backdating scandal, including a corporate VP who wants his company to fire the guys who fired him. [Starked SF]
- Microsoft discovers that the worst part about being compared to Nazis is paying reparations. [eWeek]
- There's probably a painful metaphor in all this:
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steve jobs
Has Leander Kahney lost his schtick?
"Has Steve Jobs lost his magic?" asks Leander Kahney, the man who made a career of baiting Apple fans (which, actually, is a cottage industry). Kahney's reasoning: Jobs's WWDC keynote speech on Monday wasn't as exciting as past events. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by pimpmyPR: Proof that Leander is a raving English loon is his description that Phil Schiller has "cuddly charm". Yes the same... more » | Other threads
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google
Deliver us from evil: How much love pizza buys
The Force of a Thousand Pizzas that swept onto the Googleplex raises the question: how much pizza would it take to peacefully invade Microsoft? YouTube? The nation of Iraq? Wonder no longer: we solved it! With science! More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Blackjack: That's the most unappetizing pizza I've ever seen. No wonder Google threw them out. more » | Other threads
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various wired or tired ripoffs
Waste it or taste it
Speaking of Wired Magazine's Wired/Tired/Expired (née Wired/Tired) feature, it's time for another ripoff of that cultural hot-or-not. Today, let's call this feature "waste it or taste it." More » -
webmonkey
Exclusive leak: Editor says Lycos will shutter Webmonkey
The classic web-dev resource Webmonkey taught me how to build my first homepage. Now, after ten years, Lycos will shutter the site and all its content. Webmonkey's editor sent the following message to the site's contributors, warning them to stop all work on Webmonkey and rescue their published pieces before Lycos deletes them. This message was leaked to Valleywag. More » -
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sony
Remainders: Sony exec Phil Harrison is kind of a bitch
- As soon as an AOL Joystiq blogger turns off the tape in a normal little interview, Sony exec Phil Harrison (pictured) sneers, "Well those were positive questions." So he's trying to prove Sony's not arrogant — it's just a little bitchy. [Joystiq]
- Amanda Congdon extends her 15 minutes into Hong Kong media. [Daily Hits Blog]
- Conde Nast biz dev guy Kourosh Karimkhany was named general manager of Wired News (now that Conde Nast owns it). Hey, I know that name — he's a proud alum of our big brother Kotaku. Good to see at least someone merited a promotion after the buyout. [Press release]
- Note2Dell: Before naming your blog one2one, check whether one2one.com is a porn site. Because, well, it is. [ZDNet]
- Overheard in a chat room: "Adam Curry invented everything related to podcasting." "Well, he certainly invented the history of podcasting."
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wired
BusinessWeek screws up, and Condé Nast doesn't care about the Internet
BusinessWeek's story on the purchase of Wired News is worse than useless. Writer Jon Fine (pictured here in his New Media glasses) rushed out a piece as thoroughly researched as a Gawker Media blog post. More » -
wired news
Six things Wired needs to do with Wired News
Now that Wired News is reunited with Wired proper, the healing process can begin for the tiny online outlet. An industry reporter told Valleywag just what Wired needs to do. More » -
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Wired insider: Wired News staff are bedraggled Lost characters
When Condé Nast announced last night that it bought Wired News, the press acted like Wired was rescuing a desperate crew of disaster survivors. According to a friend of Valleywag at Wired HQ, that's exactly what happened. More » -
wired news
Condé Nast bought Wired News: What that means
The publisher of Wired Magazine bought long-lost Wired News from Lycos, eight years after the two Wireds got split up. But what happens now? More » -
wired magazine
What Chris Anderson told me before Condé Nast bought Wired News
Condé Nast, owners of Wired Magazine, just bought Wired News from Lycos. All sides are cheering because Wired finally rescued its long-lost brother. Eight years ago, Wired Ventures couldn't afford to run independently. The firm had to sell its print division to Condé Nast and its digital division to Lycos. Since then, the Wired brand has been fractured. More » -
salon
Salon one-ups Wired News with double-secret NSA spying rooms
Score one for Salon Magazine, which just trumped last month's Wired News NSA-at-AT&T story with news of a more sinister, even more highly secured NSA spying room in AT&T's St. Louis facilities. More » -
nyt
NYT hiring SF tech reporter — Dan Fost, you could be huge
Hey, Valley journalists! Getting booted from the Wall Street Journal? Dropped from Wired News? A tipster hands in this internal New York Times memo. (How to tell it's really the NYT? The link's broken.) More » -
wired news
Wired News: No apology from us, you idiots
Can they change their names and end the confusion already? Wired News bitchslaps the letter-writers who, inspired by a dead-wrong Huffington Post article, went apeshit on Wired Magazine for an old Wired News story. Wired News ed-in-chief starts his reply: More » -
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No, Wired does not owe you an apology.
If there's one charming detail about the political bloggers at the Huffington Post, it's their knee-jerk righteous anger. Eric Boehlert dismisses Wired Magazine's Al Gore cover story (complete with hero cover shot) as a "make-good" for a little incident in '99. Way back then, Wired News quoted Al Gore's "inventing the Internet" line, sparking (according to Boehlert) that whole PR debacle. So the HuffPo writer writes, "Wired Owes Al Gore an Apology." More »
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By ndouglasComment by Nick Douglas: Why, why, why does every person connected to Wired give me a different history of News and Mag? Were you... more » | Other threads
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wired news
Lore Sjoberg: Puking his way out of Wired News?
Lore Sjöberg is a witty man. The Wired News writer can pull off a clever WoW parody and gives a respectable conference report. More » -
steve jobs
Comes out of his mouth. Out of.
Given a list of lead options, trust Wired News to use the creepiest: More » -
steve jobs
When will journalists decide Jobs isn't God?
Wired News editor Tony Long wins a bit of our love for calling out Steve Jobs' hero worshippers. He defends Leander Kahney's stinginess story and rips the cult of Jobs to pieces. More »
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