rant:
Looks like porn industry magazine, mouthpiece and organizer of the porn awards show (you know, the people who tell the media that porn makes five gazillion dollars a year) AVN has a little problem with crediting information sources online — much like their mainstream media counterparts, hmmm. Hey — if MSM can selectively credit blog sources, so can porn’s version of MSM, right?
What I’m talking about is this recent AVN article on sex toys, phthlalates, and Adam and Eve‘s recent decision to stop selling toys manufactured with the questionable chemicals. When the decision was official, Libby Lynn at A&E broke the news to me exclusively, even sending me a scan of the owner’s personal handwritten note about discontinuing the potentially unsafe sex toys — all of which I blogged, and was picked up by Cory Silverberg at About.com Sexuality; we blogged it on Fleshbot on the 1st; silicone toy maker Tantus’ Metis Black blogged it on the 2nd. One look at Black’s blog, and you can see the food chain of information and link passing leading to AVN’s article, all roads leading here — as if Black had broken the news, when in fact Black emailed me to say, uh, what’s up with this…
It’s ironic that AVN didn’t get a press release about this. Another classic example of how mainstream porn totally can’t grasp blogs, the web — and especially 2.0.
/rant
