Dropping Valleywag
I’m dropping Valleywag from my daily RSS reading. It’s not you Nick, it’s me: I have too much snark in my life already. I think Russell Beattie nailed the trend a couple months ago. But keep fighting the gossipy fight, and maybe I’ll find my way back eventually.
Adam Senour Said,
March 30, 2006 @ 12:23 am
The Digg concept is just a spam dump waiting to happen (and it’s already started.)
I’ve had comments I wrote on a message board end up being “Dugg” as an actual article piece. Didn’t submit it, didn’t know about it, didn’t have anything to do with it. They just showed up.
10080:BTG174 Said,
March 30, 2006 @ 2:32 am
I have played around with Digg and it does have some nice stories it could do with a undigthis.
How old is Russell obviously he neaver hung out on usenet if he thinks a few exclamation points are the end of the internet as we know it
Dignation is a nice plugin for wordpress if you want to add a diig this button to a post.
Sue Said,
March 30, 2006 @ 5:15 am
Does this have something to do with *those* photos that continually end up in the blog (at least recently)? Just wondering — I’m not connected to VW in any way.
Aaron Pratt Said,
March 30, 2006 @ 5:39 am
“It’s not you Nick, it’s me”
We all know what that means, hope Nick can take this breakup, poor fellah.
rcjordan Said,
March 30, 2006 @ 7:12 am
valleywag never made my daily-read list, but i also dropped rubel over a year ago, beattie about 8 or 9 months ago, and scoble about 6 months ago. i’ve found that if you read deeply enough in the secondary blogs and forums most truly epiphanic musings -snarky or otherwise- about the industry float up anyway. let others be your clipping service.
Stuart D Said,
March 30, 2006 @ 1:54 pm
Cant say I blame you for dropping it after reading Valleywags “Google wants everything and a pony” (
http://www.valleywag.com/tech/google/google-wants-everything-and-a-pony-164059.php) article.. was just a chance to have a dig at Google I think… go figure! When you get big, people want to see you fall
Nick Said,
March 30, 2006 @ 3:01 pm
valleywag is a pointless site IMO. I don’t see how such nonesense would interest anyone, except perhaps some wannabe bloggers/tech people. And no smart company would ever advertise with a site like that.
Nick Douglas Said,
March 30, 2006 @ 4:52 pm
If we’re breaking up, can we still make out on weekends?
Adam Senour Said,
March 31, 2006 @ 7:43 am
I don’t think Matt is a casual hookup kind of guy. He’s a commitment surfer.
Scented Candles Said,
December 4, 2006 @ 7:00 am
Wow! Some personal comments on this one…..
Sterling Silver Jewelry Said,
December 4, 2006 @ 7:03 am
So Digg was like Cheaters television show but only on the web ?
Throw Pillows Said,
March 5, 2007 @ 7:23 am
Did someone try to stop Digg at all ?