Year: 2007

Sean Bonner asks the question, who let PayPerPost into 2.0? We’re having the O’Reilly Web 2.0 conference in SF right now — the same O’Reilly who wrote the so-called civility standards enforcing ‘code of conduct’ many of us made fun of because it made little sense to actual bloggers. Well, now it’s starting to make…

Okay, well, sort of on the ‘celebrity’ part. Paul Barresi emails me from a quaint AOL address, saying, Dear Violet Let me get this “straight”. You were approached by an idiot at the GayVN’s with no class and pointed to him as the best representation of a straight man in gay porn? Your story is…

Woke up this *afternoon* in a coughing fit, felt down. I watched a video my sweet friend Addy sent me, the original version of What’s It’s Like For A Girl. It made me want to make a video; I think you’ll find the results surprising. A crime yes, but victimless, I assure you. Embed after…

I’m all sick-in-bed girl and utterly nonplussed about a long day of watching people being jerks on blogs, and missing a party I really wanted to go to. But I’m really glad I just watched Beyonce’s video Green Light (at Vivane’s)– not a noteworthy pop song, but every single costume in the video is skin-tight…

I think this pretty much depicts how MSM feels about bloggers, citizen media and online indy journalism — this quote from Brian Williams, anchor of NBC Nightly News, speaking to NYU journalism students: You’re going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe. All of my life, developing credentials…

Since I’m a sick kitten and bed-bound, I’ve been teaching myself to edit and compress video on my laptop. I made a little project out of the first videos I shot with my new video camera (an older 2006 Sony DSC-M2 I ordered out of backstock) at SXSW this year. The (admittedly low quality) video…