Cursing at Birthday Well-Wishers and Gym Machines
Kevin Pollak swore at someone who wished him happy birthday; Deborah Gibson swore at her elliptical machine and Fred Durst's waiter swore (probably) at him. The Twitterati were curse machines.
Apple Keynote Reimagined by the Twitterati
Anil Dash, Glenn Feischman and Nick Douglas created a parallel, imaginary Apple conference and Xeni Jardin met a very strange CNN producer. Life was surreal for the Twitterati.
No Cursing at Yahoo Corporate, Except for Carol Bartz
The Twitterati went on vacation: Kevin Rose visited his exclusive happy place; Xeni Jardin was in Gautemala; and an AFP reporter set off for Paris.
The Twitterati Wear Shorts to a Cage Match
Things that the media's Twitter addicts are savoring: onion rings, Hulk Hogan, and weather warm enough for shorts. Michelle Malkin, Sarah Lacy, Xeni Jardin and others reveal their not-so-hidden desires:
The Twitterati Head South, not to Mention Southwest
Can you destroy — or cement — your professional reputation in 140 characters or less? On Twitter, it's easy! Watch and learn from ABC's Jake Tapper, ex-Wonkette Ana Marie Cox, VentureBeat's Eric Eldon and others:
The Twitterati Are All Over the Place
Are all the Twitterers headed to the SXSW festival, like Digg's Kevin Rose? Actually, no! Here's where Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin, Salon.com edi-bore Joan Walsh, and Politico's Patrick Gavin recorded their time-wasting thoughts:
Cheating Media Moguls Across the Twittersphere
For the media, Twitter is the new confessional. Xeni Jardin admitted to watching an illicit movie, Peter Kafka overcharged his boss, and Jeff Jarvis admitted to being an all-around fraud. Today's crimes against Twitter:
The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
Today on Twitter: Media people being pretentious, from Bonnie Fuller to Wired's Chris Anderson and beyond!
Twitterati on Parade
Did you hear Twitter is now bigger than Digg? That's because you can't vote on Obamanaugural headlines by text message. More OMG Barack!!!!!!1!1!! tweets from the media elite:
Web 2.0 Summit video panelists make tech reporter's worst-dressed list
An online-video panel at Web 2.0 Summit proved so free of insight that reporter Scott Raynovich took a turn playing Mr. Blackwell instead, savaging all of the panelists' outfits. Only moderator Xeni Jardin got off easy, winning praise for her "peach-colored suit." We would have dinged her for that: Jardin always looks…
Back to our regularly scheduled Xeni Space Pr0n
Save your blog drama for Obama. Boing Boing starship trooper Xeni Jardin posted close-up photos of fun-loving Virgin billionaire Richard Branson's new space tourism plane, Eve, from yesterday's big debut event.
(Photo by Brian Lam)
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…
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…
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…
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…
Boing Boing's unapologetic eleventh-hour apologia
Boing Boing's readers, hopped up on free-speech rhetoric, continue to find the tech-culture blog's act of unpublishing unspeakable. Hoping to put the Internet's most enduring drama llama this month to bed, the Los Angeles Times rounded up four members of Boing Boing's staff yesterday for a late-night confab. The…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
