after midnight, happy friday

27 April 2007
My column, this week, such a pleasure: Margaret Cho's New Role, snip: Margaret Cho is not a big woman. But when I walk into the Rincon Center room where she's being attended to by nearly a dozen Good Vibrations (goodvibes.com) staff, it's clear that she's the girl in the room with […]
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RE: Web Disruptors / Violet Blue

26 April 2007
The tickets have been purchased, so it's official. Forbes names me a "web disruptor" and has invited me to their Internet Leadership Forum (conference) in Mexico the first weekend in May. I'm a Forbes guest (w00t!) and will be speaking on their panel, "The Web Disrupters" with three others, including […]
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more on that code of conduct

26 April 2007
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 […]
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sort of breaking: 80 percent of blogs contain “offensive” content

25 April 2007
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 […]
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vivid sued in STD/used sex toys case

25 April 2007
Seems to me this is a case for OSHA. But it's actually no laughing matter. Porn star Kira Kener was fired by Vivid "the same day she told management she was concerned about having to work with previously used marital aids, the lawsuits stated." She sued, and they now have […]
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sex and free wifi don’t mix in utah

24 April 2007
Update!: Print your very own Universal Response Form for Internet Content Filtering Suggestions (jricher.jricher.com)! Or rather, Utah lawmakers want to ban free wifi and penalize those with open networks to "protect children form porn". They're also proposing to punish and out Utah ISP's who don't voluntarily police (read: don't publish, take […]
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nope, won’t be sneaking in this year

24 April 2007
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* […]
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greencine’s sex in the movies guide

22 April 2007
I've long adored local Netflix-style (and VOD, w00t!) movie service GreenCine for a million reasons; local, small business, incredible selection of movies, tons of indy films, oodles of hard-to-find sexploitation films, and the best cult and horror selection I've ever seen in a service like this. I often recommend them […]
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bloggers undressed: margaret cho

21 April 2007
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 -- […]
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sex and technology conference: Arse Electronica call for speakers and sponsors!

20 April 2007
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 […]
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hookin’ up in the 2.0

19 April 2007
...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, […]
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dude, where’s my abortion rights?

18 April 2007
Hey -- is everyone so caught up in obsessing about the shootings that they aren't noticing what happened with the Supreme Court and abortion today? And that, like, the four dissenting voices were the few "liberals" in the court, including the only *female* left on the Supreme Court? This is […]
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speaking of pricks

17 April 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, […]
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mmmm, morning wood

17 April 2007
Seen on Our Lady Fleshbot a while back, still yummy any time of the day or night for girls like me: Londoner Luke Stephenson's Morning Glory series. Take two and call me in the morning? Okay!
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celebrity hate mail

16 April 2007
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 […]
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videoblogging week day 10

16 April 2007
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, […]
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on the vloggies show: anything goes vs. civility enforced!

14 April 2007
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 […]
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sick girl girly video night in: party of one

13 April 2007
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 […]
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new bloggers undressed: sean bonner

13 April 2007
In this episode, I ask Sean Bonner what makes a sexy geek... sexy? Watch it on the show page or embedded after the jump. His answers are very revealing. (more...)
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sour grapes, sore loser: brian williams, MSM

13 April 2007
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 […]
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