That reads like sour grapes.

That doesn't necessarily make it wrong, either:-)

Perhaps, though I think my sour grapes specifically about digg are somewhat dead. What really makes me angry is the joke that is the VC industry, which is really the root cause of this. In April I talked to an associate at Andreesen-Horowitz (where Kevin Rose is the mayor on foursquare), who said that digg, after many difficulties, was on the right track. From their perspective, engineers are cogs in the machine and the only thing that matters are executives. I worked closely with the executives at digg, and they spent the vast majority of the time feathering their nests, and the digg v4 rollout is just the logical conclusion of them draining value for five years.

Also I said this was a "rough guess." Comments on TC from people I know who worked there (there's been a mass exodus for the last two years) suggest I'm mostly correct.

Finally, I think "sour grapes" is a poor rejoinder. Especially since it's the standard PR line at digg.

Reads like "industry experience" to me.

Perhaps it's both?