D | All Things Digital Launches!
April 25, 2007
Valleywag points to today’ launch of Dow Jones newest website, AllThingsD.com. According to the site AllThingsD is, "devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. But it is different from other sites in this space. It is a fusion of different media styles, different topics, different formats and different sources." The site competes with the likes of gigaom.com. So what? Well the site will be the new home for heavy hitters like:
- Kara Swisher (she started covering digital issues for the The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector.)
- Walt Mossberg (he writes two columns, and edits a third, for the Wall Street Journal. He also publishes periodic interviews for the Journal, and occasional blog posts)
- John Paczkowski (he has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s daily newspaper.)
- Also Katherine Boehret, Beth Callaghan, John Sullivan and Lia Lorenzano-Kennett
Giga Liz Gannez explaines, "Swisher and Mossberg have clearly thought about which parts of the web they want to embrace and which they’d rather not, setting our a deliberate comment policy that requires registration and promises to excise comments that are “juvenile, venomous, self-promotional or irrelevant.” No ad hominem attacks whatsoever will be accepted — “There are plenty of places on the Web where you can accuse tech moguls of being greedy or vain. This isn’t one of them.” So while we at GigaOM might have some new competition, Valleywag has nothing to worry about."
