Was actually having such a bad day I was about to begin openly weeping — when my dear friend Chriso sent me this: I Gizoogled your blog. “Violet Bizzy”. Bwahah! My bio is great, but the sidebar just made me laugh out loud! “Best Bitches’ Erotica”! And down the page — “B-L-to-tha-izzipnDoggy Stylin’ Squid” It…

Jonno just served up the most perfect Fleshbotty response to the Digg user hoo-hah (which is sadly lacking in the hoo-hah department if you know what I mean) — and points out that Digg won’t let its users link to our site. I’ll shamelessy snip his glorious text (and art) from Hot Hexadecimal Porn: We…

It’s not terribly timely, but I think it’s a smart wrap on the so-called “code of conduct” and the Sierra debacle: in the Bohemian, Richard Koman’s You’ve Got (Hate) Mail. Interestingly, they give me the last word. And it’s fierce. I really thought when I did this interview that because I was contrary to everyone…

So basically, ScanSafe’s Monthly “Global Threat Report” for March 2007 means that 20 percent of you *are not doing your jobs*. Don’t make me get out the ruler. You know, the one that has “blogger” studded in reverse on one side. Snip from Ars Technica: Blogs are known to be a free-for-all for “expressive” content,…

I see that Wired just posted their Rave Awards gallery, so I cruised their picks for mavericks. There’s a phrase that means a lot to me — it’s “feed the poor, starve the rich”. Wired couldn’t have it more backwards. Especially when their crowning pick is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yes, *that* Arnold Schwarzenegger. “To find the…

Um… Margaret Cho rocks harder than Judas Priest! We had a great time today, and I interviewed her for my column; aaaand we chatted about porn, anal sex, makeup, sock garters and tattoos (we have lots of cherry blossom tats between us). We did an episode of bloggers undressed — yay! Embedded after the jump.

It’s time to let this genie out of the bottle: I’m helping to organize an international conference and festival all about sex and tech, with experts from the fields of science, economics, art and technology — Arse Electronica. It will take place here in San Francisco on October 5-7, 2007 at the Porn Palace of…

…because leaving the house is overrated. That’s the topic of this week’s Chron/Gate column, Web 2.0 Dating Games, where I talk about what sites people are using (and a bit about how they’re using them) to cruise. Image: the screencap the Gate was too nervous to run with the piece, which is also my favoritest…

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…

This week I squared off with Sheriff Irina Slutsky of the Vloggies Show in a sexed-up face-off of the so-called ‘blogger code of conduct’. I’m especially excited to see Irina introduce our confrontation by giving her opinion of the O’Rielly proposed blogging guidelines — and then, of course, I’m the rep for “anything goes” in…