Denton to launch $ilicon Valley gossip blog, "Valleywag"

January 25, 2006 | Matt Marshall

Updated

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Here is a quirky little item from today’s SF Examiner:

Scoop: New York has Gawker … Washington has Wonkette … L.A. has Defamer … These are Web sites run by Nick Denton, the William Randolph Hearst of the blog world. Each is cheeky and wildly successful. So where’s ours? It’s coming next week when Denton launches a $ilicon Valley-centered gossip-log to be called “Valleywag.” Top tale-wagger will be brainy, direct from Grove City [PA] College. … The Google-eyed Douglas is already digging up some Sand Hill Road dirt for his first posts.

No, we don’t know who “Douglas” is either. But we’ll keep an eye out on this, and let you know if he digs up any intriguing scoops. It’s about time someone stirred up this nice cozy valley of ours. But wait, isn’t everyone too busy making money, or too geeky, for there to be a consistent diet of salacious sex, drugs and rock n’ roll?

Update: An anonymous reader, below in comments, informs us it is Nick Douglas, from Blogebrity.

And more here, saying, surprise, it is a way for him to make more money.

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.