|
Acquisitions: Why venture capitalists love your momAugust 28th, 2007 at 3:34 pmSource:Valleywag If you’re not a word nerd, you’ll want to skip this post. But for those who pay attention to such matters, a few notes on style. Previous regimes at Valleywag have vociferously rejected CamelCase in company names, but I’ve reinstated it. While I cringe when I see people incorrectly capitalize the “W” in “Valleywag,” I find it equally noisome when people write “Myspace” for “MySpace” or “Linked In” for “LinkedIn.” With all due respect to my predecessors, I don’t think it makes one look hip; I think, rather, that it makes you look clueless and lazy. Likewise, I’m breaking with the vile Luddite practice of lowercasing “Internet” and “Web,” and insisting on their capitalization. Why? Because they’re proper nouns. An “internet” is any interconnected network of networks; a “web,” lowercased, is any connection of hyperlinked pages. The Internet, and the World Wide Web — the ones we all connect to — are the only ones we actually care about. If you insist on writing about “the internet,” I’ll insist on asking, “Which one?”
Last April, Arrington wrote a brief but glowing review of Maya’s Mom. In the original version of the post, he mentioned that founder Ann Crady Kennedy “is a former colleague and so my opinions may be favorably tinted.” This disclosure was subsequently removed. Arrington was later accused of passing over a rival mommy network in favor of one he was more intimately acquainted with. Kennedy, of course, is now reaping the benefit of her ties to Arrington. And for the passed-over mommy sites? Don’t worry. There’s a lineup of venture capitalists waiting to get to know you better.
|
On Sand Hill Road, MILF stands for “mothers I’d like to fund.” The mommy-blog frenzy among venture capitalists will likely be fueled by 
