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I think startups are the wrong place for a gossip rag to be hanging out. Keep that garbage in Hollywood please.

• ojbyrne 18y ago
  You've obviously not spent much time hanging around with the "Web 2.0" crowd in SF. Ripe for ridicule.
  • jmtame 18y ago
    I've seen my share of gossip-worthy stories, but I'd rather hear about them in the dead pool.
    • ojbyrne 18y ago
      Except "buzz" is part of what produces growth. And it's almost guaranteed that "buzz" is generally empty, shallow people interacting with other empty, shallow people (because that's 90% of the world's population). That produces gossip, and buzz, and more buzz, and tabloid journalism, and billions of dollars. "Hollywood" is the perfect paradigm for that.
      • gojomo 18y ago
        The kind of "buzz" that creates growth for tech companies is "gee whiz, check out this young/new/innovative/life-changing/giant-killing company/technology." Not cynical mockery. And the culture of vapid celebrity that sells magazines/TV/movies doesn't sell tech. Even the Facebook/MySpace masses could hardly care less about gossip of those companies' founders and executives. At best, such gossip is industry 'inside baseball'... and so it should be judged for accuracy and relevance, not snark and salaciousness.
  • gojomo 18y ago
    Except, rather than deflating the vanity and pretentiousness, Valleywag on net inflated it, directing even more incestuous attention to superficialities and private lives. I wish Denton luck in his other titles. I hope Boutin, the one byline most consistently puckish rather than nasty, continues to find other outlets. But overall I'm glad Valleywag is folding; it leaked an unhealthy amount of sewage into the intertubes.