Valleywag To Become Section of Gawker.com

Man Blodgett, just because Denton writes for you, tone down the lurve, will you? Talk about drinking the kool ade. No, no, VW wasn't shut down! It's doing really, really well. It's doing so well they fired everyone, cut Owen's pay to back to woodchuck levels, and, yeah, "folded" him into Gawker. Thanks for clearing up the rumors, dude.

I've always been a big fan of Valleywag.

FYI--the anonymous tip form is broken.

bobotheclown: I believe it's called a "fauxhawk."

That much less $h*t in the world.

Why don't they just move it to Fleshbot.com. Isn't that where the money is?

bobotheclown said:
What's hell is with curl-e-q haircut?

sample032 said:
bobotheclown: I believe it's called a "fauxhawk."

It's the twenty-first century equivalent of the mullet and anyone who "wears" one is a loser idiot that should be bitch-slapped on sight.

I don't care what you do or how much money you claim to make, the minute you leave the salon your stylist high-fives his or her co-workers because they sold another idiot (and over-charged you) on the most ridiculous "look" in decades.

Any business that isn't making money isn't much of a business so it should be absorbed or liquidated. BFD if one brand swallows or shutters another; there's too much noise in the tubes anyway.

Valleywag was one of the best blogs on the Web and Nick can't figure out how to make money off of it, so he folds it into one little column on an essentially over-extended site? And this is a poor reflection on Valleywag? No. It's a poor reflection on Nick. First of all, he was dead wrong to fire almost everyone last month; letting so many good writers go changed the tone of the blog from fun, diverse and sort of breathless to the All-Owen-And-Paul-All-The-Time show (and I could soooooooo do without Paul, if I had to choose - and Alaska, too - he acts like a damn child). Valleywag is not the same now. It's sort of stifling and boring in comparison to recent good times when everyone was still on - but still it's a good blog, and very unique and honest, in spite of all that. Now Nick folds it into Gawker (or is about to) - I give up. He had a great thing going in Valleywag, and it became much greater over the years, but at it's absolute peak he's destroyed it. It's hard to forgive (or even understand) something as stupid as this.

Wow, couldn't happen to a shittier bunch o' opportunistic jerks. Let's see, they posted sensationalist headlines Tiffany jewellery and stories that hurt the guilty and innocent alike, repeatedly picked on people who weren't remotely public figures, and basically reveled in others' misfortunes.

@HA HA HA HA!!! Hmmmm....are you sure you're not Jimmy Wales?

Oh, and yes. One of the best blogs on the Web. Not as great now with Jackson, Melissa, and Nicholas gone, of course, and turning it into a column is stupid but as it turns out, it's Owen's fault for suggesting such a thing - Nick simply took him up on it.

I've never seen a "tech gossip rag" that didn't pick on people, spread rumors, tell what later turns out to be untrue stories....that is pretty much the point of it, after all. It's actually not as sensationalistic and is more based on truth and verifiable facts than this blog is, and that's saying a lot. You want sensationalism, inaccuracies, the blogger's best guesses and lots of mistruths and FUD? Read SAI 24/7. I love this blog but I guarantee you your head will explode from all the bullshit that goes on here.

I think anyone smart takes VW with a grain of salt, especially should they ever become a victim of the bashing. But I belong to the attention-whore/Jason-Calacanis-school of thinking which states that any attention is better than no attention at all, so maybe it's just a matter of semantics and acquired tastes.