Valleywag Being Absorbed by Gawker

Owen Thomas, managing editor of Valleywag, has confirmed that the infamous tech gossip blog is being folded into Gawker with Owen switching roles from editor to columnist. Here’s more on the changes at Gawker from Nick Denton.

And now for a trip down memory lane, here’s my write-up and photos of the Valleywag launch party back in February 2006 when Nick Denton introduced us to a then unknown Nick Douglas, Valleywag’s first managing editor.

photos by Scott Beale