This is an interesting and lucid post. But the true and simple explanation is buried in the 2nd half of the story: we’re terrified of being sued out of business, thanks to Charles Harder and the former Deadspin editor who posted revenge porn on Gawker. Our legal training at a large digital media company this year was…

Hey Keenan, the officers were Mauricio Rodriguez Jr., Steven Smith, and James Long.

I would LOVE to hear more...

He makes hundreds of vague futuristic predictions that scores of others have also made. Kurzweil tallies up the “accurate” predictions and everyone forgets the ones he missed.

Kurzweil is the literal definition of a charlatan and his Singularity University is super sketchy.

Thanks cchan

I would love to hear all your stories.

This is a very good question that I’d like to know the answer to. I’ve wondered the same thing.

Hopefully nobody will be drinking and droning at this event.

Agreed.

Nope. There’s no way to tell if they’re making a net profit or not from these docs.

The real “Valleywag” story is that they needed to spend $100s of millions in advertising to GET to these revenue numbers (the ads arewhy you’re writing about them in the first place), and when both companies ultimately collapse it is…

Maddie, you’ve written this same thing up twice. Which blog post do you think was better? http://gizmodo.com/pin-sized-book…

He was the guy that put Alex Smith on his ass 4 seconds after the whistle on a play that was dead because he was clearly offsides.

Von Miller should’ve been ejected last night.

+1

This was prescient.

Who’s the narrator?

Hey Giz gang:

Pretty sure Mr. Baseball used to be Weed Homer, who used to be Dwyane (@collatingbones.)

It's really that easy.