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Owen Thomas, the editor of Gawker Media’s Valleywag is leaving the site and WebNewser hears he is heading to the San Francisco/San Jose NBC site, NBCBayArea.com.

The site is co-located in San Jose with NBC station KNTV and CNBC’s Silicon Valley bureau. This means Thomas may be sharing office space with CNBC’s Jim Goldman, about whom Thomas has written, in not so flattering terms, on more than one occasion. The station also has a bureau in San Francisco.

An NBC local media spokesperson tells us, “We have nothing to confirm right now but we think he’s a talented digital media executive.”

Gawker’s Nick Denton tells TechCrunch, “Owen has a reputation as a fearsome gossip writer. What’s less known is his penchant for management. It sounds like this NBC job will give him the responsibility he’s been craving – and take him out of the Valleywag firing line!”

NBC has been rebranding its local news sites untying them from the TV station brand and making them more about the communities they serve. They include NBCNewYork.com, NBCLA.com, NBCChicago.com.

“I’m a big boy, I can handle it.”

That’s how CNBC’s Silicon Valley bureau chief Jim Goldman responded to Newsweek’s Steve Lyons during CNBC Reports last night.

Lyons, who until July blogged at Fake Steve, said Goldman “got played” and “got punked” by his Apple sources over his reporting on the real Steve Jobs‘ health.

His CNBC colleague Dennis Kneale asked Goldman point blank: “Do you feel you were lied to by your sources?”

Goldman: “I believe that up until this past week, that I have been sourced very well on this story and reported exactly what I was told, and I believed what I reported.”

Silicon Alley Insider reports “a source close to the situation says Dan Lyons believes he has been banned” from CNBC. CNBC spokesperson Kevin Goldman says Lyons is NOT banned.

CNBC’s Dennis Kneale was trying to be funny. No one was laughing.

Today during Power Lunch, the host was tossing to Silicon Valley correspondent Jim Goldman who was about to update viewers on the health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

Kneale: Shares of apple soaring today after the tech giant releases new details of the health of its CEO. Jim Goldman joins us with more. Jim, so the way I understand it, Steve Jobs, all this was about PMS, something like that?

Goldman: Dennis!

Kneale: Hormonal imbalance? Sorry.

Goldman: Nice. Don’t we have like a ten-second delay for him?

Sue Herera: Unfortunately not. Maybe tomorrow we will, though.

Goldman: You got to love cable.

When Goldman finished his report, Kneale said, “First let me start by apologizing to you and to anyone who was offended by my word play, hormonal imbalance.”

It’s gotten so you can’t look at any blog or news site without seeing at least one story on the upcoming launch of Apple‘s iPhone 3G. Some of the more interesting ones we found this morning:

News.com: UK Demand for iPhone 3G Halts O2 Preorders
UK operator O2 decided to take pre-orders for the iPhone 3G on its Web site, so it sent texts to its customers yesterday morning giving them a heads up that they could sign up for the upgrade early. Demand was so high that O2′s site crashed minutes after it started taking pre-orders, forcing it to shut down the system.

MSN MoneyCentral: A Billion-Dollar Weekend for Apple
MSN’s MoneyCentral blog predicts that Apple will rake in a billion dollars this weekend from the iPhone alone if it sells just two million units. The figure doesn’t include all that potential revenue from application downloads on the iTunes AppStore.

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