This is no joke. MySpace is now quietly screening and censoring users’ emails for sexual language — and I’m sure other things as well, if they’re editing out phrases as innocuous as “sex toys.” I wonder what else MySpace is looking for in users’ emails. But if that’s not a total violation of private communication…

Like we needed an excuse to never EVER shop at Best Buy again. (Not sex related, but check it out.) Update: Best Buy apologized. Apologized?! Awesome! Almost makes me wish I’d put Tyra’s nutty C&D(s) on the blog…

A while back someone emailed me with an app that extracts all of one’s photos from their Flickr account. I can’t find the email, doh. I need to back up my account and have over 2000 photos. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Update: I got a lot of responses, thank you! I…

Well, it’s not like we didn’t know. Microsoft gets a lump of coal in its… stocking for this one. Snip: SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft Corp. quickly shut down Santa Claus’ Web privileges after it found out the automated elf it created for kids to instant message with was talking naughty, not nice. Last year, Microsoft…

But it’s still fun to see how Flickr is giving it to users at both ends. Like me! I have a bunch of important things to write about Monday (news, murder and scandal, my SFSI.org day today). Yet, let’s indulge the TOU and see if Alice can manage to drink the right potion to restore…

I just created entries for and uploaded two of my ebooks How to Kiss and Creatures of the Night to Amazon’s new Digital Text Platform store — and their Kindle Reader catalog. It’s a very easy-to-use interface. I mean, provided you already have content, it’s formatted, you’ve purchased your own ISBN numbers, your description text…

Taking a break form the sexy for a minute to show you two videos that have really hit a positive nerve with me this week. One, the Larry Lessig TED talk about copyright, creative freedom, remix culture (and the criminalization thereof), and how companies trying to control content are alienating not just users but generations…

Image via ario. The video went up today; it was so exciting to give this talk to Google people, and the audience was passionate, engaged and the room was packed. I got a lot of really nice emails from viewers/participants afterward. YAY! Such a great experience all around. Do watch my talk if you get…

Image by aeric meredith-goujon, also seen here. I’ve just sent my Canon PowerShot TX1 off to the service center in some square state, wah! See you in (probably) December, my much-loved, much-used, very needed little video friend. The display suddenly decided the world was upside-down, obviously channeling my internal world these days. At least I…

As I mentioned a post back, last night at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, I gave a five-minute talk for the nationwide O’Reilly Radar Ignite series — my talk was called “Porn or Not?” and discussed how online 2.0 social networking communities (like Flickr) are trying to police their users for adult (or “offensive”…