This is how you do press relations: journalists who attend right-wing nut Randall Terry's upcoming "George Tiller's murder is great news for the pro-life movement" press conference will get free beer and wings!
Microsoft's first-ever mass layoffs bore unusual fruit for Microsoft obsessive Todd Bishop, who spent the weekend in Seattle-area thrift shops. He discovered more discarded Microsoft logowear than ever. Some of his finds:
You stuck in New York doing, like, real work while your colleagues party it up in Denver? You jealous? Well honestly, man up. Because you can just keep on partying like usual while they are all stuck going to lame sponsored bullshit parties in Denver. Our man in Denver reports that the Planned Parenthood party was…
Much as Spy invested sarcasm, Suck invented blogging sarcastically. Or something. It was an internet magazine, like Slate and Salon except it didn't make you want to claw your eyes out, which is why it's defunct now. But everyone remembers it, and its glorious heyday. Greg Allen still has a bottle of Suck Soda. Which…
Is CNN for real? The headlines on its website — "Minced onions force emergency landing" — cause some to wonder if its Atlanta-based producers aren't having a jape at the expense of news junkies. Now, an expansion into selling T-shirts confirms that CNN is laughing at us, not with us. Capitalizing on the trend of…
Along with having excellent food and guests, the All Things Digital party at the Venetian in Las Vegas had very nice throw pillows. Jason Calacanis may have Twittered about stealing one, but I actually did it. (Admittedly, I did so with the connivance of Kara Swisher.) Score one for the bullycub!
Looking for that perfect holiday gift for the suddenly ex-AOLer in your life? Look no further than Valleywag tipster "Bob Zmuda," whose latest additions to the T-shirt line are now on Flickr. Our favorite? Zmuda's commemoration of AOL's 2007 Christmas party. That's the one soon-to-be-laid-off employees weren't…
Welcome to D-Day, AOL employees! Today is the reported day when 2,000 AOL employees will be released into the wild. Your consolation prize? Four to 12 months' severance and, we hear, lump-sum payments of up to $50,000 to make up for missed bonuses. Not satisfied with that? Valleywag reader bobzmudaguy has created a…
The point of schwag (and the reason the Valley is buried in it) is to remind a consumer of an otherwise ethereal product or service. The less physical (or popular) the thing the schwag markets, the more the burden of cost falls on the schwag giver. (This is why Apple can sell its t-shirts while, say, Browster.com…
[UPDATE: Aaaaaaand I'm a dick. The schwag is safe and sound with a friend, to whom I accidentally sent both my gift package and my own package.]
I want you all in this shirt by Friday.
Microsoft made the mistake this March of offering free USB drives loaded with Windows Desktop Licensing info (best use: battling MS salespeople). In a desperate bid at getting something tangible from Microsoft, hordes of freebie chasers signed up for the drives.
What Valleywag got:
It's Self-Promotional Friday at Valleywag! Entrepreneur Steven Kaplan had some great ideas for Valleywag taglines:
Yay! Valleyschwag (no relation) arrived! The first packages from Rubyred Labs' "schwagazine" (announced on Valleywag in March) arrived on geeky doorsteps this weekend. Including the Valleywag doorstep. So I took some schwag porn:
Well, this wasn't the Valleyschwag I mentioned yesterday, but it sure is sexy: San Fran web designers Rubyred Labs just launched Valleyschwag, a schwag-of-the-month club with a few things going for it:
Sometimes people send free things. An update to the Valleywag schwag watch:
You can tell how cool a party is by who's on the free tees. As a Rubyred Labs member told me, "You know those cool American Apparel shirts? They feel great. Well, I got one, but across the front it had a big logo, [in a broad obnoxious voice] FOLDEEEEERA. I'm never gonna wear that shirt!"
The latest ConFonz update leads right into an afterparty gossipfest. Continuing from where he left off:
