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caption contest
It'd hit me
Laid-off sex blogger Violet Blue has resurfaced after her unpublishing. She appears to be in good spirits, debuting her Halloween costume as a naughty nun. Never mind that she should be the one getting her knuckles rapped for fibbing! We hear her departure from Fleshbot, Valleywag's smutty sister site, wasn't as consensual as she'd have you believe. Can you think of a better caption? Leave it in the comments. The best one will become the post's new headline. Yesterday's winner: nirreskeya, for "Elevation's new partners." (Photo by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid)
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By Owen ThomasComment by infinitesin: Vegas, you lied to me - I thought people involved in the sex industry had to be attractive! This is an... 3 Responses | Other threads
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we read twitter so you don't have to
Having fun at the Tied House in Mountain View, wish you were here
Hanging out with some readers, tipsters and commenters at the Tied House in Mountain View, must have forgotten to lock the keys on my phone. And for the record, it was a chestdial. If we could get that voicemail as an MP3, I'd love to post it for anyone who couldn't make it!
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By Jackson WestComment by raincoaster: Keylock, babes. Use at will; if only there was a way to say "keylockblocked on advice of raincoaster.com" I'd rule... more » | Other threads
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Violet Blue can't convince court to restrain Wikipedia editors
Violet Blue, the sex blogger Boing Boing tried to purge from its memory, managed to turn the "unpublishing" into a black eye for the Boingers. But she's been less successful on another front: Local courts have denied Blue's request for an injunction barring two Wikipedia contributors, Nina "Ninavizz" Alter and David Ben "Archeaopteryx" Burch, from editing her entry. Blue first filed a police report, then a civil harassment order. The order and any temporary injuctions have been dismissed, though Blue is allowed to file again if new developments arise. (How kind! Boing Boing didn't even give her a second chance!) In the police report which kicked off the legal tangle (reprinted in full below) the officer suggested Blue file the order with the courts and "inform the web page master of Wikipedia of the incident, give them a case number, and request to have her information on Wikipedia locked so the public cannot alter it in any manner." More »
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By Jackson WestComment by FeliceSaffron: Funny, Violet never commented on the fact that her past is more than likely a lie (doesn't she fight and attack... more » | Other threads
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we read twitter so you don't have to
Boing Boing expands from unpublishing to untweeting
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, the Boing Boing comments moderator who posted Boing Boing's formal response to last month's Violet Blue "unpublishing" flamefest, is a smart lady who, judging from her own comments, doesn't afraid of anything. She invented the practice of removing the vowels from blog comments she deems out of line, to avoid scrubbing them completely from the public record. So I'm surprised to see that Hayden took down one of her own Twitter updates Monday, apparently because Blue linked to it. Teresa, wht th fck?
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By Paul BoutinComment by jsavimbi: Under attack by Gawker Media? Half a dozen posts and twenty comments no constitute an attack? Apparently she's become insensitive... more » | Other threads
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Violet Blue tries to restrain critic with court order instead of sexy rubber strap
Internet sex educator Violet Blue has asked a court to serve a restraining order against Ben Burch, a Wikipedia editor. Blue's entry on Wikipedia has been home to almost as much conflict as the fallout from her deletion from the popular blog Boing Boing: her boyfriend, Jonathan Moore, is responsible for at least eighteen of the entry's edits (as "Wikiwikimoore"), prompting Burch and others to question whether he can observe the site's requirement for a neutral point of view regarding all subjects. Blue's response, based on documents forwarded to Valleywag, is to ask a court to declare Burch a threat to her physical safety. More »
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Comment by Baleusias: Actually, denied "without prejudice" means that it was denied, but that it wasn't a frivolous case. If the plaintiff... more » | Other threads
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we read twitter so you don't have to
Playboy offers Violet Blue a happy ending
Could it be our wish has come true? Will Playboy ditch their reluctant hot-blogger contestants and go straight to a photoshoot of professional bad girl Violet Blue? Let's see: Playboy gets their photo spread. Unwilling contestants get off the hook. Blue gets onto Playboy.com, which means she can complain about the mainstream media for weeks. Everybody wins! See the attached photo for proof that Violet is fully prepared. Are you? More »
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great moments in journalism
Playboy contest morphs into Dutch auction
At least four of the nine women chosen by Playboy editors for their hottest blogger contest are actively playing to lose. None of them would let us run their emails from Playboy.com's editors, but there's a clear pattern: Playboy emailed blogstars like Xeni Jardin for a chaste headshot photo to go into an article about sexy bloggers. The emails didn't explain that (a) it was a poll, and (b) the point of the poll was to get the winner to pose "topless or nude" — no G-rated shoots — for the magazine's website. Only sex writer Violet Blue seems openly thrilled to be in the running. Here's an idea: Everyone vote for Violet. Spare the rest of us the awkwardness. [UPDATE: TechCrunch has one of the emails.]
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By Paul BoutinComment by Alaska Miller: I think iJustine can last for a long time. more » | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
Playboy wants top blogger to pose topless
The whole Xeni Jardin / Violet Blue thing continues to backfire on us. A female editor at Playboy.com alerted us to a "Who's the Web's hottest blogger"? contest they thought up after ogling last week's photos of the two cozied-up lady bloggers. The prize? Playboy will offer the winner a "topless or nude" photo shoot for their site. I fact-checked it with them, and let's be clear: Topless, nude, or forget it. The contestants are Jardin and Blue, plus Julie Alexandra, Veronica Belmont, Amanda Congdon, Brigitte Dale, Sarah Lacy, Sarah Austin and Natali Del Conte. I know what you're thinking: Good luck getting the winner to take it off. As a former Playboy reader (many of the articles are good) I wish they'd asked around first. It'd be easy to solicit nine very photogenic girlbloggers eager to claim the prize. Who'll be #1? Right now the obscure-but-well-shot Brigitte Dale is ahead, but I expect Veronica Belmont's Gadgetboy Army to mobilize today and sweep her to a decisive win — and a decisive NO. Sarah Austin sums up her cognitive dissonance: "Not sure how I feel about being in Playboy's popularity contest. Maybe I'd feel better if I was winning?"
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By Paul BoutinComment by Shadowlayer: @Robert Synnott: Manboobs = DO NOT WANT more » | Other threads
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How to bitch about your big break in the New York Times
Attention wannabe celebrities of the blogosphere: Take a lesson from Violet Blue. Should you finally achieve your goal of getting your picture in the New York Times, be quick to dismiss the Gray Lady's staffers as annoying retards who Don't Get It and you just wish they'd leave you alone. Do this before the story runs. An amazing thing will happen: Those moronic hacks at the Times, with their newsroom ethics and their rhino-thick skins, will print and distribute your photo even after they've seen your putdowns. They don't do "unpublishing." Be sure to make them sorry for it.
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By Paul BoutinComment by Spy from the Land of Rainpeople: @BobDope: I think so. There actually was a Southern California's Valley girl (San Fernando Valley) that was a pornographic performer... more » | Other threads
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boing boing
The glamorous way out of a Web drama
What's the classiest finish to an Internet catfight? The shining example will be July 2008's Boing Boing vs. Violet Blue. It wasn't about player-hating and girl-on-girl sex, we'll all say. No no, it was about freedom and blogging and privacy and good versus evil. Now that we've all moved on, the New York Times steps in a week later to clean things up with a G-rated rehash that suggests Violet Blue may be the real winner. What have each of the participants learned? More »
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Comment by TallulahSkankhead: Map seems to have been removed--why link to it here? And, why do I care? more » | Other threads
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Boing Boing's relationship with Violet Blue comes full circle
Sex blogger Violet Blue may have tried to ride the Boing Boing coattail express to microfame by airing grievances publicly. But once upon a time she waged the same kind of war on Boing Boing cofounder Xeni Jardin's side against Matthew Neal Sharp, curator of xenisucks.com, and the New York Times. Now, after the bad breakup between the two bloggers became serious business, another gentleman has put a thumb in the third eye of the popular catalog of eclectic ephemera by creating violetbluevioletblue.net — a directory of formerly wonderful things from Boing Boing that featured Blue, deleted by Jardin from the site a year ago. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by raincoaster: @Avery: Seven comments in and it's already time for someone to pull a Godwin's? more » | Other threads
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full disclosure
The Valleywag-Boing Boing sex map
"Did you sleep with Violet Blue? I can't keep track," my editor IM'd me. He's not nosy; he's just trying to stay on top of things. To help him — and you — out, I've dashed off this sex map of l'affaire Boing Boing, including my own involvement. (Why didn't Xeni Jardin just do this in the first place? In retrospect, that seems easier than taking the abuse she's now getting.) Jardin thinks blogging one's personal life is "stupid," but then, I get to report for an operation where my seriously gay editor factchecks the difference between "lesbian" and "girl-on-girl." And if we're fucking the people we're reporting on, we'll tell you. So no, I did not sleep with Violet Blue. Even though she asked. More »
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Comment by lastweeksdate: the map isn't very clear. how to do i get to nick? more » | Other threads
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How Xeni and Violet's Boing Boing affair went sour
What turned culture-jamming tech blog Boing Boing into the kind of censorious monster it normally ridicules? Beyond its initial statement that the reasons are "personal," Boing Boing hasn't elaborated, but all signs point to the foundering of a once-romantic friendship between Boing Boing editor Xeni Jardin and Violet Blue, the sex blogger whose many links from Boing Boing were erased last year. (Full disclosure: Jardin is Valleywag's favorite gendertastic sex-robot space princess from the future, while Violet Blue has contributed to Fleshbot, a porn blog published by Valleywag owner Gawker Media. Blue once approached Valleywag contributor Melissa Gira Grant for sex, but was rebuffed.) In an email to Valleywag, pasted below, Blue continues to profess ignorance of what she did wrong; she also dismisses her entanglement with Jardin as a friendship laced with casual sex. Blue's own photo of the two at Kink.com party, shown here, suggests, in its entangled limbs, that the relationship was more serious than that. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Erin91: I wasn't aware that a practical invisibility potion and/or ray had been invented. Did any of you know that had... more » | Other threads
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blogging for dollars
Did the Internet's free-speech guardians try to hush up a girl-on-girl love affair?
As new media gets big, it remains small at heart — and not in a good way. Boing Boing, the popular tech-culture blog, has offered a tardy defense of its mass deletion of posts mentioning a sex blogger from its archive, and it amounts to this: Because Boing Boing started as a personal blog, it's entitled to be as petty, as hypocritical, and as inconsistent as a 14-year-old girl with a MySpace page. Never mind the fussing about so-called "censorship" — though one would be sure that, had this happened at another website, we'd be reading all about it at Boing Boing, with its editors in a righteous nerd froth. The excuse that "it's personal" would ring more true if we weren't talking about a media enterprise whose audience exceeds that of Conde Nast's Epicurious.com, or the publicly traded finance site TheStreet.com. While Boing Boing's revenues are unknown, the site formed the cornerstone of Federated Media, an online-advertising startup which has already made founder John Battelle — Boing Boing's "band manager" — a multimillionaire. Oh, and did we mention that Violet Blue, the sex blogger in question (and contributor to Gawker Media's Fleshbot), shown here at right, used to be the lover of Boing Boing editor Xeni Jardin, left? More » -
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Blogger completely deleted from Boing Boing archives
Violet Blue, a popular local blogger, columnist, sex educator and contributor to Gawker Media's smutty sister Fleshbot, seems to have rubbed someone at Boing Boing the wrong way. She discovered that nearly all the posts on the site that mentioned her or her work had disappeared — save for one, a post from last year on the Top 10 Sex Memes from 2006. Shortly after that post was discovered via Google site search, it disappeared as well. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by loyaleagle: It's such an odd move by them. I mean did they think it wouldn't be noticed? more » | Other threads
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Sex columnist touches Steve Jobs, and Scoble gets his jollies
San Francisco Chronicle sex columnist Violet Blue saw Apple CEO Steve Jobs standing on the show floor at MacWorld Expo yesterday. So she decided to touch him and ask for a photo. Bad idea. More »
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burning man
The geeks that weren't there
BLACK ROCK CITY — Still no real live power-geek sighting yet campers, but you'll be pleased to note that through the miracle of modern technology, you too can be on the playa without actually being on the playa! Scott Beale of Laughing Squid, a Burning Man attendee from way back, shows us how it's done with his recent fab roundup of the Paul Addis debacle — Addis being the man who attempted to torch the Burning Man statue four days early. Also not here is sex and tech writer Violet Blue, who nonetheless wrote a handy dandy Burning Man Sex Tip Guide for all of us looking to get laid with alkali dust for lube. Hot Perl programmerKirrily "Skud" Robert, who was here, enjoyed herself immensely, but had to hightail it back to civilization early. Maybe the harsh conditions of the desert and the daily struggle for survival couldn't compare to an old-fashioned startup power struggle.
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By sdavalosComment by OaklandTechie: 2038 may also be the end of the world for Google if you believe the Google Watch guy's rants: [www.google-watch.org] more » | Other threads
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vlog hot
Vlog Hot: Glamazons Heat 1
This round includes specimens on the more glamorous end of the vlogger spectrum. Celebrity schmoozing, natural hotness, or affected personal style were the tickets into this race. On deck: Violet Blue, Gala Darling, Adriana Gascoigne, Casey McKinnon, and Sara Schaefer. Do that jump thing with the voteyness. More »
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By Chris MohneyComment by Zal: Hmmm... Decisions, decisions... *wink* more » | Other threads
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By FleshbotComment by chelseagirlnyc: Except that this issue isn't resolved. It might be for many of the sites--Tony Comstock's, Violet Blue's and Good Vibrations,... more » | Other threads
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