Silicon Alley Insider published its "Top 100 People" list in New York City for 2007. This continues the "tradition" that Jason Calacanis started at the erstwhile Silicon Alley Reporter in the 1990s.

The interesting thing to me in all this is that ValleyWag had a big put down on the list not to mention the obnoxiousness of the headline. The post also inferred that nothing much happens in Silicon Alley and that all the Internet action is in Silicon Valley.

And who was the writer? None other than Nicholas Carlson who worked for Jupitermedia until recently at InternetNews.com. Nick seemed like a nice guy. I even had a lunch with him at our Christmas party last year. ValleyWag is cool but has no substance. ValleyWag could just as well be covering Britney and Lindsay. Also if we ever have another bubble burst in the Internet space, ValleyWag will be one of the first sites to bite the dust.

As for Carlson, he was hired away from InternetNews by ValleyWag to cover "boring" Silicon Alley and New York City. Is it not ironic that he blasts NYC and the very people who has been hired to cover? At least Nick shows his range as a writer. He went from writing quality at InternetNews.com to writing gossip and garbage at ValleyWag.