Bloggers Turn Me On

Valleywag Fired Jordan

Tyler Durden — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:08:12 +0000

Our favorite demised Valley gossip rag fired Jordan Golson.

Let’s be honest: who cares?.

More than anyone else, Jordan agrees.

The bad thing about all? Melissa will post more.
The good thing? So will Paul Boutin.

Now is there anyone who can fire Owen, based on the same standards? Because no great rag should be based on the number of posts to increase traffic.

That just seems too low, even for Nick Douglas’s standards. Just to easy to use the PR to drive traffic.

I pine for the former Nick & Nick Valleywag.

But more than that, I pine for some hours of time so I can at least update the design of the post view on this site. :-S

J Nation: What You Missed

Tyler Durden — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:11:45 +0000

When you think that the concept of Calacanis live streaming from his desk not too bad is, have a luck at these few minutes, recorded during the first hour of Jason Nation. Crash panic and frenetic anger inclusive.

Add to that utter stupid behavior.

When The World Comes To An End

Tyler Durden — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:42:38 +0000

Exactly when you thought things couldn’t get any worse anymore, there it is. A tweet. A tweet from JCal. Calacanis baffles us once more.

Right at the moment I don’t know if I should look forward to plenty of live stupidities or just think Not even more JCal!. Jason now has a Ustream Channel, Calacanis Nation. Worst of all, JCal loves it!

He loves it and plans to extend the broadcasting options. All day from the ~~Calacanis~~ Mahalo HQ.

Saying out there, people are dying. All while JCal continues to whore himself out in a never ending competition with Scoble, spamming his service, Google spambox Mahalo.

Who Cares?

Tyler Durden — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:44:21 +0000

Another one from the I-don’t-agree-with-it-but-it’s-well-worth-reading dept.

Source: Gruber reckons his voice is more important than someone’s who has worked years for Apple

To quote Jens Alfke:

But of course we have no way of knowing, because, in typical Apple fashion, they will absolutely refuse to admit the existence of the problem, much less any efforts to work around it, until they have a complete solution to spring on us. Unless of course they just don’t care; entirely likely, since quite a lot of people upstairs at Apple don’t seem to ‘get’ social software at all. We just have no way of knowing…

Hmmm… [former] insider vs. Gruber. I know whom I’d put my money on.

Welcome to the first of many more quotes from Daring Futzball. A strong contender to join our blacklist.

Does Denton Know This?

Tyler Durden — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:30:24 +0000

That our dearest Valleywag has gone down is no secret, but lately everything just seems to get worse. Does Nick Denton know that he pays for posts like these:

Anne Marie and Jet Set Lara were both featured in my post. My reader confused Anna Marie, who’s no longer for hire, with Lara, whom you still can contact for a date. Glad to hear a connection’s been made. Maybe read Valleywag with both hands next time?

Source: Melissa Gira does it wrong.

What Happens With Nerds In New York

Tyler Durden — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:12:49 +0000

Title Correction: What happens when you bring a bunch of nerds to a NYC gossip blog?
People who used to run the infamous and once snazzy Valleywag.

Put blog gossip überlord Nick Denton in charge of Gawker and you can be sure that soon Mr. Nick Douglas will be part of the fun. Because El Douglas writes hugely popular, rather diggable entries.
My ar$e.

What happens with a bunch of nerds on a town gossip blog is a huge amount of dumb blog posts, underestimating the intellect of many commenters is a bunch of annoying webmeme reporting:

*Yawns*

What If I Lived In The USA?

Tyler Durden — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:02:02 +0000

What if my country hadn’t fully expressed its shame over burning my ancestors in ovens. Treating them like animals. Implementing a “final solution” on my race that somehow left me living. What if they expected me to love that country the same way the ancestors of the people who destroyed my ancestors do?

Geez it must suck to live in the country that was so cruel to my ancestors.

Money quote from Dave in the comments:

I don’t live in Germany, and from what I’ve heard from Germans both in this thread and in my own life, I would never choose to. Your country has never really come to grips to what you did to my people and our families. When you do, you’ll be able to hear what I said here.

Is Dave trying to tell us that the US has come to grips with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Of course, that was defense. Japan would never have surrendered. Even not if Russia would have invaded them only weeks later.

Source:What If I Lived In Germany.

The Definition of Real Journalism

Tyler Durden — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:40:09 +0000

hey this is Jason here in the press room… considering that i’ve done more real journalism on my worst day than you’ve done in a lifetime, let alone your miserable stint at Valleywag…. awwwww… schucks….forget it…. let’s cut to the puppies. :-)

Source: Calacanis in a feud with Owen Thomas over journalistic quality.

Why We Dropped The A-Bomb

Tyler Durden — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:01:14 +0000

We didn’t go to the moon to beat the Russians. No, we went there to prove it could be done and that we could do it (and beating the Russians was a nice icing on the cake).

Source: Robert Scoble has a dream.

Hello Blogosphere!

Tyler Durden — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:43:26 +0000

Welcome to bloggersturnmeon.com. On this site I will give my, most of times rather harsh, view on many things happening going on in the blogosphere.
A 1938media alike blog, without videos. I do reserve the right to publish a live videostream some time though. Be warned, I regularly sit topless at the screen and drink while online.

The aim of this blog ~~isn’t to become a Valleywag for bloggers~~ is to offer a bit of common sense, common sense to those who aren’t part of the politics.Fisking might be part of the strategy.

Have fun.