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lycos

"Then we shattered it with a hammer": Wired says goodbye, Lycos

Wired News staffers suffered for years under the reign of Lycos before Cond Nast bought them this summer and reunited them with Wired Magazine (whose offices were, at the time of purchase, across the hall). Michael Calore of Wired News says: More »

12:21 PM on Mon Oct 16 2006
By Nick Douglas
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Wired Wiki: Wired News rips off Esquire

Wired News released an upcoming article on a wiki page this morning, asking readers to edit the story (about Wikipedia, natch) before the news outlet publishes it on September 7. In the buzz that will follow, everyone will refer to the LA Times' failed experiment of building a wiki from scratch. But few will recall that Esquire pulled this off a year ago with its own Wikipedia article. More »

10:44 AM on Tue Aug 29 2006
By Nick Douglas
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google

Loose wires: I'm the urban space historian, baby

Wired News catches a writer faking a source: a "space historian" cited in three articles. Of course, if Wired wants a space historian, they should just bring back R. U. Sirius. [Wired News]
Google co-heads Larry and Sergey reached a settlement with the interior designer of their Boeing 767. The blabbermouth agreed to stop telling the press how embarrassing the whole process was. Now Larry and Sergey can get back to important matters, like arguing over how many hammocks Larry can have in his room. [NY Sun]
Local blog Starked SF writes a roundup of Silicon Valley's stock options backdating scandal, including a corporate VP who wants his company to fire the guys who fired him. [Starked SF]
Microsoft discovers that the worst part about being compared to Nazis is paying reparations. [eWeek]
There's probably a painful metaphor in all this:

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4:55 PM on Wed Aug 9 2006
By Nick Douglas
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steve jobs

Has Leander Kahney lost his schtick?

"Has Steve Jobs lost his magic?" asks Leander Kahney, the man who made a career of baiting Apple fans (which, actually, is a cottage industry). Kahney's reasoning: Jobs's WWDC keynote speech on Monday wasn't as exciting as past events. More »

12:46 PM on Tue Aug 8 2006
By Nick Douglas
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google

Deliver us from evil: How much love pizza buys

The Force of a Thousand Pizzas that swept onto the Googleplex raises the question: how much pizza would it take to peacefully invade Microsoft? YouTube? The nation of Iraq? Wonder no longer: we solved it! With science! More »

7:40 PM on Mon Jul 31 2006
By Nick Douglas
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various wired or tired ripoffs

Waste it or taste it

Speaking of Wired Magazine's Wired/Tired/Expired (née Wired/Tired) feature, it's time for another ripoff of that cultural hot-or-not. Today, let's call this feature "waste it or taste it." More »

7:46 PM on Mon Jul 24 2006
By Nick Douglas
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lycos

Lycos can kill morale with a coffee mug

A Wired News staffer, thankful that Condé Nast has rescued the company from Lycos, sends a hilariously telling schwag shot. More »

3:53 PM on Mon Jul 17 2006
By Nick Douglas
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webmonkey

Exclusive leak: Editor says Lycos will shutter Webmonkey

The classic web-dev resource Webmonkey taught me how to build my first homepage. Now, after ten years, Lycos will shutter the site and all its content. Webmonkey's editor sent the following message to the site's contributors, warning them to stop all work on Webmonkey and rescue their published pieces before Lycos deletes them. This message was leaked to Valleywag. More »

8:14 PM on Fri Jul 14 2006
By Nick Douglas
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Latest by nothere: not webmonkey! more »

sony

Remainders: Sony exec Phil Harrison is kind of a bitch

As soon as an AOL Joystiq blogger turns off the tape in a normal little interview, Sony exec Phil Harrison (pictured) sneers, "Well those were positive questions." So he's trying to prove Sony's not arrogant — it's just a little bitchy. [Joystiq]
Amanda Congdon extends her 15 minutes into Hong Kong media. [Daily Hits Blog]
Conde Nast biz dev guy Kourosh Karimkhany was named general manager of Wired News (now that Conde Nast owns it). Hey, I know that name — he's a proud alum of our big brother Kotaku. Good to see at least someone merited a promotion after the buyout. [Press release]
Note2Dell: Before naming your blog one2one, check whether one2one.com is a porn site. Because, well, it is. [ZDNet]
Overheard in a chat room: "Adam Curry invented everything related to podcasting." "Well, he certainly invented the history of podcasting."

7:04 PM on Thu Jul 13 2006
By Nick Douglas
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wired

BusinessWeek screws up, and Condé Nast doesn't care about the Internet

BusinessWeek's story on the purchase of Wired News is worse than useless. Writer Jon Fine (pictured here in his New Media glasses) rushed out a piece as thoroughly researched as a Gawker Media blog post. More »

7:00 AM on Thu Jul 13 2006
By Nick Douglas
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