A 22-year-old college dropout, Nick Douglas (pictured), is attracting about 25,000 readers a day to his valleywag.com Web site with gossip from Silicon Valley. The Merc’s Michelle Quinn says the blog gives tech nerds the Hollywood treatment. She says that when Douglas was mugged in San Francisco on July 20, “it struck some as fitting.” (Photo by Scott Beale of Laughing Squid.)