Dropping Valleywag

March 29, 2006

in Web/Net

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.

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Adam Senour March 30, 2006 at 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 March 30, 2006 at 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 March 30, 2006 at 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 March 30, 2006 at 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 March 30, 2006 at 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 March 30, 2006 at 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 March 30, 2006 at 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 March 30, 2006 at 4:52 pm

If we’re breaking up, can we still make out on weekends?

Adam Senour March 31, 2006 at 7:43 am

I don’t think Matt is a casual hookup kind of guy. He’s a commitment surfer.

Scented Candles December 4, 2006 at 7:00 am

Wow! Some personal comments on this one…..

Sterling Silver Jewelry December 4, 2006 at 7:03 am

So Digg was like Cheaters television show but only on the web ?

Throw Pillows March 5, 2007 at 7:23 am

Did someone try to stop Digg at all ?

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