Nick Douglas Gone From Valleywag

Et tu, Nick Denton? It appears that young Nick Douglas, the brash young gossip-monger behind Valleywag, has from time to time) or left of his own volition. Although since we are dealing with the king of rumour-mongering, I would be remiss if I didn't pass on a rumour that he was looking at joining a video entity of some kind, a rumour that Dave Winer an interview with Bambi Francisco from Marketwatch - he wants to make Valleywag more about financial gossip instead of just "about sex in the Valley." He tells Bambi "it would have been nice to get the Google-YouTube deal" or some juicy stories about potential startup acquisitions, and that he's working on a juicy scoop about John Battelle's Federated Media. He says that he wants to boost Valleywag's page views from their current level of about 20,000 (which seems surprisingly small to me). For more on the brief career of Mr. Douglas, check out some thoughts on Nick's departure, and wants to know more about it, but I think he's wasting his time. Nick Denton is the Zen master of PR. Update: If Comments Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl www.mathewingram.com/work and