I'm Evelyn Nussenbaum. It's not an existential question. But in case you're wondering where the lovely and talented Owen Thomas has gone, the answer is Hawaii. With his spouse. Leaving me to fill his extremely large (but stylish) shoes. So who am I? The short answer is that I am a refugee from the late, great …
I've had it. Between you vicious commenters and my cold, ruthless overlord, I'm near my breaking point. So Mr. Valleywag and I are headed west for a week on an abruptly scheduled vacation. (What's west of San Francisco? I'll leave that to the geographers among you.) I'm leaving the site in the hands of my former …
In this clip from CNBC, a Playboy executive describes his company's new social network, PlayboyU, as a place where college students can "commune" with each other. Right. If that's what you want to call it. My take? "The bunny's not going to get much of a bang," I told CNBC.
CNBC reporter Julia Boorstin chatted me up about Google's drop in the customer-satisfaction rankings, amid a host of complaints about Gmail, Google News's new comments experiment, and other bad moves. My assertion: Yes, Google's got a valuable brand, but its users don't have a deep emotional connection with that…
When I compared the inadvertent release of Facebook's source code to a tabloid publishing nudie shots of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, CNBC host Melissa Francis said she had no idea what I was talking about. Heck, I had no idea what I was talking about. I think the point was that the episode was embarrassing but…
I have a confession to make, folks. Remember that Julia Allison character, the New York-based TV commentator and magazine columnist who swept through town not long ago? Okay, yes, I'm technically gay and technically married, but the state nullified my marriage and Allison, more recently, nullified my gayness. We're…
Let me replay a scene from the heated negotiations that brought me to Valleywag. Nick Denton, Noah Robischon, and I are sitting at a table at Balthazar, Denton's home away from home in New York's Soho neighborhood. "Minions!" I shout at Denton, upending a few espresso cups as I slam the table. "I demand minions!"…
News flash: Valleywag's editor revealed as "snarky," party correspondent "leggy." Who knew? We're still hoping for a swanky receptionist, though. [The Inquirer]
I'm a dunce. I was wrong. There, I said it. In running a tip on Tuesday that a drunk employee brought down 365 Main, the San Francisco datacenter which hosts servers running some of the Web's most important sites, I trusted a source I shouldn't have. Here's the story behind my 365 Main post. A warning to readers of…
There's a new badass in town, and his name is iknowmore. Right now, the mysterious Valleywag commenter is delivering a major beatdown to me in my recent post about the Red Herring. I could just ban the account, but given iknowmore's insights into Yahoo, I'm inclined to keep him around and just take his criticisms…
Since CNBC interviewed me about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book in the famous series, leaking onto the internets, there have been further developments. Scholastic, Potter's U.S. publisher, is threatening legal action against DeepDiscount.com, an e-commerce website which only started selling books…
Earlier this week, CNBC asked me to come on the air to discuss Facebook's legal woes. Click to viewI've spent days immersed in legal filings, and the clip, above, just scratches the surface of what I've learned. Next week comes a critical moment for Facebook, the red-hot social network that has captured Silicon…
Witness the dueling goatees! The raised eyebrows! The utter failure to reveal any new facts about the man behind The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs! News.com's Tom Krazit and I duke it out in trying to explain the Fake Steve Jobs phenomenon for CNBC's Melissa Francis. (Video by CNBC)
After initially insisting he'd done nothing wrong, Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey has apologized for posting messages about his company and the competition under the pseudonym "Rahodeb." Most people are celebrating the reversal. But I'm kicking myself. I should have known. I, of all people, should have known.
Fans of Time Inc. tech title Business 2.0 have taken the bold step of starting a Facebook group to show their support for the troubled publication. So far, the group has amassed over 50 members, including Business 2.0 editor Josh Quittner, Quittner's wife, New York Times columnist Michelle Slatalla, Gizmodo editor…
If you missed our saturation coverage of all things Facebook, here's a nice recap. CNBC's Melissa Francis quizzes yours truly on the scandal about "Valleyfreude," the IPO-promoting video by Facebook employee Randi Jayne, the sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg: (Video by CNBC)
There's a new wag in town. And I'm feeling good. This sleepy little burg has a thousand secrets, and I can't wait to start telling them. But for the curious, I'll start, briefly, with the real story of how I got this job. Nick Denton has his version, of course, but I think mine's better, because it involves…
PaidContent.org founder Rafat Ali threw an NYC media party last night to celebrate his blog's first investment round. The "guys in nametags making pitches" reminded media pundit Jeff Jarvis of the bashes of the dot-com boom. The Gawker Media overlords were bouncing biz-dev people back and forth like Web 2.0 ping-pong.…
