Kindle Thief Tortures Owner with Crappy Book Buys
The Twitterati ended the week punchy: Kevin Rose was plundering sofware; Anil Dash gleefully promoted the term "Facesquatting" and Mark Glaser lost his Kindle to a teenaged girl.
Veronica Belmont signs on to Revision3's Tekzilla
Sexy geek Veronica Belmont's new gig is with technology review and tip show Tekzilla, which is produced by Revision3 and is currently hosted by TechTV veteran Patrick Norton. The news comes on the heels of last week's announcement that she'll be leaving as the sole host of Mahalo Daily. Tekzilla can expect a good…
In a podcast with Leo LaPorte, Patrick Norton admits that he's joining Revision3, the online-video startup staffed by many of his former coworkers at TechTV, the late, lamented nerd-news cable channel. [The Week In Tech]
Revision3 COO David Prager, asked to confirm that Patrick Norton is leaving the Ziff-Davis-owned DL.TV to join his online-video company, answers with a silence that speaks volumes. [Twit.tv]
Revision3's new face keeps it all in the family
Click to viewMore than one tipster tells us that Patrick Norton is leaving Ziff-Davis's DL.TV, and, after a brief paternity leave, joining Revision3. DL.TV, of course, was the brainchild of Jumpin' Jim Louderback, the former PC Magazine editor who's now Revision3's CEO. And before Ziff-Davis, Louderback and Norton…
Waggable: Has the spirit got you?
There's a reason the old phrase goes "eating your own dog food" — extend the metaphor, and you see why it's unhealthy for a pundit to believe what he feeds to viewers. A reader reports:
Geek out: We'll miss you, Orlowski
Hacks and flacks wished Andrew Orlowski (pictured, the one with his hair on top) farewell last night with a calm happy hour at the Edinburgh Castle Pub. His exit dilutes the pool of Valley journalism, as the Register reporter was a long-time snarker and Google hound (one confident enough to snub Google Press Day).…
