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Source:Valleywag

Valleywag, this time, has gone too far. Or so some people believe. Yesterday, we posted Robert Scoble’s cell phone number, which is 425 205 1921, in a picture. One reader was so outraged that he woke one of my reporters from a sound sleep to express his ire. This top-secret information has been been posted on every page of Scoble’s own blog for three years — not to mention his Facebook profile. If you wish to think ill of Valleywag for posting the number, our only request: That you direct the same vitriol to Scoble himself. He awaits your calls. At 425 205 1921.

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Terry Semel is still Yahoo’s chairman, but the company is rapidly erasing his mark on the business — chiefly any push into original content, a business Wall Street views as expensive and unrewarding. He’s clearly not interested in carrying on that argument in the Yahoo boardroom. Instead, PaidContent reports, he’s reviving his old company, Windsor Digital, the investment vehicle which carried him between Warner Bros. and Yahoo.

Unconfirmed, but sensible, is a rumor that Windsor might switch strategies from merely investing in companies to developing original content. If so, Semel seems to be assembling an appropriate team. Drew Buckley, who headed up Yahoo’s original-programming business, and Jeff Karish, former head of strategy for Yahoo’s media group, are joining him. Understandable departures, given the shakeup Scott Moore’s leading in that group. What I wonder: Will it take long for Jeff Weiner, embattled head of Yahoo’s Network division, to rejoin Windsor Digital, which he cofounded with Semel?

Source:Valleywag

Along with having excellent food and guests, the All Things Digital party at the Venetian in Las Vegas had very nice throw pillows. Jason Calacanis may have Twittered about stealing one, but I actually did it. (Admittedly, I did so with the connivance of Kara Swisher.) Score one for the bullycub!

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