Valleywag was at one time a full-fledged, staffed blog, part of Gawker Media, that was devoted to tracking Silicon Valley and the tech industry with a jaundiced eye and a strong sense of human interest. Some considered it a mere scandal sheet, and, well, I can’t completely deny that. Competitive blogging has always had a slightly scandally flavor. Valleywag’s creators seemed to be positioning themselves in the firm belief that Silly Valley would soon be as reliable a source of schadenfreude as Washington D.C. and Hollywood. (The problem is that most techs are simply invisible to the average reader, compared to politicians and actors, who cultivate their images much more aggressively.)

But I always found it worth reading, because honestly, I’ve had enough of the other kind of bias to last a lifetime. Since you read other installments of this strip, you don’t need to hear me go on about this, but watching lots of people just eating up Apple’s latest serving of lies and self-aggrandization makes me hungry for any little scrap of evidence that neither the Next Big Thing, nor its creators, are actually descended from on high to bring us flawlessly into a Better World.

Valleywag has been demoted to a mere hashtag, folded into gawker.com, and of late, support for that hashtag has been inconsistent. Gawker’s run a couple of stories with it recently but ran many more tech stories without it, and what with Gawker itself in flux, well, let’s just say I’m not optimistic about the feature’s future.

Guess Widgetitis will just have to pick up the slack.