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Valleywag's Wagger fired
Posted on November 13, 2006 5:52 PM
The king of Silicon Valley snark has been dethroned. Nick Douglas, who was lured away from Blogebrity to be Gawker Media's Valleywag writer, has apparently been fired from his post not even a year into the job, sez Gawker kingpin Nick Denton...
Nick Douglas, the kid we plucked from college to launch Valleywag, will be a great journalist. And we will look stupid for letting him go. (To reach Nick Douglas, send email to popsnap at gmail dot com.) But, to helm the site, we're now looking for someone with, ideally, some background in reporting.For a gossip site? For *the* Silicon Valley gossip site? Who's going to replace Nick Douglas, Anderson Cooper?
At the moment, it will be Kingpin Denton. He's brought along a Valleywag makeover that looks like the local Halloween supply outlet puked on graph paper. He's fallen in love with Courier New for the typeface. That's not the worst part either.
Kingpin is boring.
Here's a selection of his posts from the
Blogger Appeasement Group Definition: the unit of an internet corporation, pursuing projects designed to generate, not revenue, nor even traffic, but blogger goodwill.Dear Daredevil and Elektra, the Kingpin has taken over our favorite blog and stuffed it with graphs. Please come kick the Kingpin's ass. Affectionately, the Intarwebs.
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