Dan Lyons, the technology journalist who took over Valleywag earlier this year, is stepping down.
Lyons writes, “While all this was happening I sold a book, Disrupted, which I need to deliver by the end of this year. It’s a memoir of my ridiculous attempt to reinvent myself and start a new career as a marketing person inside a software company during the second tech bubble. It’s funny! If you work in Silicon Valley, you will relate.
“Bad news: Working on my health and writing the book will consume most of my time, which means I need to step away from my full-time role at Valleywag. I may write a column once a week, but full-time blogging is out of the question.
“I’m a little bit heartbroken. I’ve always been a huge fan of Gawker. For years I have wanted to work here. To me, Gawker is a modern-day Spy magazine, or an American version of Private Eye.”
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