I am a med student with an additional major in Clinical Psychology. Ina's self-proclaimed gender is debatable (and any debatable factoids should be left out of an encyclopedic entry).

This particular Wikipedia editor must not have gotten to the chapter on gender identity disorder in doctorin' reference texts like the DSM or ICD. For everyone's sake, I hope this Wikipedia editor goes into podiatry.

As Fried rightly points out, for reference materials, it's a matter of style. The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, for which Fried serves as a vice president, has a handy stylebook supplement that might help.

But Fried now has a bigger problem with Wikipedia: Her entry has been deemed insufficiently "notable" for the online encyclopedia.

Because it's a nasty breeding ground for predators and there's nothing women can do about it. These guys are far worse people than the kind who stalk you on the way home from work or rape their girlfriends or hit their partners or molest their own kids: they have access to your photos from sunning with the girls in Cabo. The most terrifying part about being sexually victimized is the breach of trust and the painful powerplay, and no one can go there like a guy you've never met messaging you for sex. Especially if his name is ~*-joe69 is my game*~!. And especially if you recognize him from LinkedIn. Only your modesty and your Delete key can keep the bad men at bay.

Because we don't know any better than to overshare. When presented with an open text box and an Internet connection, women have proven that they can't be trusted. Whether that's our adolescent sisters flashing it, or elder ladies dating and mating in public past what they refuse to accept as their prime, women cannot keep it in their pants. A set of modest server-side restrictions could help. Rather than face temptation daily, we could also consider removing the Internet from those institutions where its use among girls goes unmonitored. The future of women in computer science could be ushered in by tasking these same young ladies with developing the next NetNanny. For the already of-age, it's not too late. Ask yourself, what trusted man could you give your email logins to?

Because there's nothing worse in this world than being called a slut and online it lasts forever. (As long as it's indexed, anyway.) The most potent insult to sling at a girl is to brag that she may have once gone off in pursuit of an orgasm. Even when we do it ourselves. As soon as you, Ms. Aspiring CTO, pose for the wrong photo, or text the wrong Twitter, your career is done for. Besides, being subject to whispered compliments at one's prowess at adult sexual activity is something that even the most professional woman should not have to suffer.

Because we're giving it up for nothing! Who will pay for monthly recurring billing on a subscription-based business model like marriage when you offer the cow for a complimentary trial period? It's old hat now for girls to go posting a facial comeshot to their tumblelog, but even baring a little Flickr cleavage could ruin a girl these days. Breasts are thieves in the attention economy, I say. If you're not getting paid and paid somehow, you're getting ripped off. A little "angel investment" may be the only way to save your reputation. Not even whores do it for free.

Because men don't believe we're real women anyway. Tits or get the fuck off? Just watch us.

(Photo by The Internet Women's Temperance League)

• How to be a girl and a CEO
• Invest in a magnifying mirror, with a light, for touching up your eyebrows if you can't get them done, and putting on eye makeup easier.
• Take hair vitamins.
• Get good facial and body scrubs.
• Buy a good nail polish and top coat — stretch the life of your manicure/pedicure.
• Find the easy, never fail thing for your hair when you're running late but want to look good.
• Have a default makeup look you can do quickly or on the go.
• Create pre-canned, ready to go outfits. Ask anybody about my black cashmere sweater dress. It has gotten me through a ton of events.
• Moisturize head to toe; include your cuticles.
• Buy hair glaze when needed before big meetings.
• Carry the essentials with you, always.

They'd read a lot of research around how to form the best companies and a lot of studies show that if you fall below 20 percent of the workforce being women, things become really imbalanced and unhealthy inside the corporate culture.

• Focus on numbers. StyleDiary "might have not had MySpace level traffic," Handschiegel says, but because StyleDiary kept focus on its topic, a "60 percent return rate and average session time of something like 30 minutes" was plenty attractive for potential buyers. As is talking stats, not style.
• Promote yourself and the company carefully. Potential buyers wouldn't know about StyleDiary if Handschiegel hadn't made them aware. But self-promotion is tricky, especially for women. "Whoring yourself out and bouncing around the parties" isn't the way to do it, Handschiegel says. Neither is "Twittering 100 times a day." Actually, this advice applies equally to men.
• Accumulate real advisors, not Facebook "friends." "I was sort of mentored by two really successful serial entrepreneurs. I spent six or seven years working with them, watching what they did, how they conducted themselves."
• In conversations, add information, not just your voice. The best way to counter people's assumptions about female entrepreneurs — namely, that since you're a girl, you won't know anything — is by contributing to discussions online and off with actual knowledge. For a specific example, Handschiegel started talking about IP packets. I didn't follow, but she sounded way smarter than most of the wantrepreneurs I hang out with in Manhattan.
• Don't spend. StyleDiary was easier to sell, Handschiegel says, because it was "self-funded, debt free and cash flow positive." Any tricks to keeping it so lean? Things to avoid spending on: "Office, office supplies: things that make you feel like you're doing something." Also: "A lot of girl entrepreneurs go bananas thinking they'll make money. I would never spend the $3k it'd take me to be at SXSW just to party there."
• Sometimes you have to let your girl's-girl image go. "Nothing takes precedence over the business. That's why you see me at events and I usually got ready in the car, if at all."

• 1. InfoWorld claims Microsoft bought Yahoo. The respected tech trade's article is so straight-faced and credible that other journos weigh in seriously on the deal.
• 2. CollegeHumor.com serves up a single parody MySpace page. Way to take a vacation today, lusers.
• 3. CNET publishes the Urlrurl hoax we refused to run, plus a hoax about Intellipedia wars. What else should we not believe on CNET today?
• 4. Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton announces the sale of neo-feminist site Jezebel to Conde Nast, and Jezebel introduces new rich-brat editors from the midtown Manhattan world its readers loathe. Can't you just feel Big Nick's love for his female readers?
• 5. Larry Brin and Sergey Page call for 30-second YouTube auditions from people who want to settle the planet Mars as part of a Google/Virgin project. Instead of producing slick hoax videos, why don't you guys go build some real rockets?

In the statement, Wales claims his involvement with Marsden's Wikipedia profile was "completely routine." He also claims to have met Marsden for the first time last month. Shortly before their meeting, Wales reportedly sent this note to a list of Wikipedia operators:

In the past week or so we have struck up something of a personal friendship, and I offered to meet with her and give some feedback on her website design and business model. As such, at least for the time being, I may have a sufficient COI [conflict of interest] regarding this case that I should not edit the article or do anything "official" in my Jimbo-ness :).

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1. Know your audience. If you seek a global audience, go ahead and upload to Spankwire, RedTube or Megarotic. But the mostly non-porny Vimeo lets you password protect your videos. Plus, Vimeo hosts way less competition in the fuck-film category.
2. Expand your viewership slowly. Start with just you and your costar(s). That way damage control, if needed, is simpler. The best way to stay safe with friends who want a peek is to insist they upload a video of their own before you'll let them have your password.
3. Anticipate trouble. If you're sharing with your sweetie, change your passwords — email, your secret blog, your swinger profile — before you get anywhere near a breakup. The XXX ex video is an all-too-popular genre.

(Screencap from NSFW and very hot RedTube)

My favorite part of Amazon's apology email (see screenshot): "We apologize for any confusion this might have caused." Please, dear God — no matter what future innovation holds — let no couple discover they're pregnant via an email from Amazon or through a story in their Facebook news feed.

I try not to blog about Julia. I can't help it. I want nothing to do with her, but she:

• calls or emails me
• ignores that I told her she is a "psychopathic narcissist" who is "evil"
• recently hired my brother to do video work for her
• writes about me on her site
• misrepresents her closeness to my friends
• visits my old office and my old coworkers
• emailed one of my ex-girlfriends
• started attacking Tumblr

I have insulted and degraded her to no avail. She has no value. But every day Julia-related shit pops into my life.

Seeing the picture, seeing Jobs's face on his daughter, got me thinking. In what other ways are they similar? Did Brennan-Jobs inherit Steve's brilliance, his charisma, his infamous temper? Would she be as suited to the job of running Apple as her father? Would the male-dominated technology industry accept her?

This is not so much a question about Brennan-Jobs — though it's an intriguing thought to imagine her delivering a Macworld keynote. No, it's about the still-rampant sexism in tech. What if Steve had been a girl? Would he have been able to start Apple, raise venture capital, take the company public? Women CEOs are still few and far between; with eBay CEO Meg Whitman's retirement, replaced by a man, we have one fewer. That's a movement in the wrong direction.

Near the end of her first day back, she had a meeting with one of her team members who, it seems, hadn't gotten the memo about Michael becoming Megan. Over the last month, the corporate address book still had her email account listed as "Michael," but she'd been signing emails "Megan." The colleague's initial assumption? That someone in finance had administrative access to Wallent's account, and was sending emails on the executive's behalf.

Wallent believes this was her mistake, not his, saying she was mostly embarrassed that she hadn't succeeded in getting the word out to everyone. But I was more struck by this: The gut reaction that an unknown colleague with a female name must work in a support function, not engineering or management. (Photo courtesy of Megan Wallent)

The scene was all too familiar for Trunk. When Trunk's column for Business 2.0 was canceled, her editor there suggested that Trunk, then pregnant with her first child, try writing for Working Mother instead.

Ughhh. We have always been the biggest YouTube supporter and fan. We're heartbroken by their mismanagement of this whole situation ... Note to anyone creating videos and using video networking sites: don't keep all your eggs in one basket! You may get burned!

Hilton did not mention what caused his suspension, aside from the critical video. YouTube did not respond to repeated requests for comment, but then again, when do they?

More: The fatal misstep that got Perez Hilton banned

In her little-watched "Watercooler Diaries" series on YouTube, Bohner films herself in a bikini, swimming with dolphins and interviewing Florida locals. In an on-camera commentary, Bohner makes the following observation about the dolphins:

The boys stay together in their bachelor pads to go hunter-gathering and also ... to go sniffing out for more pods of girls. Rrnnnggh! Just like human boys!

Rough weather has so far served to hinder paparazzi on boats, but that lucky stroke may now be turning against Larry and Lucy. Since the festivities are going late into the evening tonight, the couple and their 600 celebrity guests — rumored to include Bono, Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, and as many as three U.S. presidents — may find themselves stuck on Necker, Gilligan's Island-style. Good thing Page required that their passports be up to date and valid well past the weekend.

We were staying in this little slice of paradise called Virgin Gorda when this wedding extravaganza came upon us. Now we cannot go to Little Dix or Biras Creek, some of our favorite spots.

First let me tell you that the whole island is NOT booked for the wedding. Only Little Dix Bay, Biras Creek, the Bitter End yacht club and some private villas.

We haven't seen any big activity happening yet. Other than the at least 25 big containers shipped to the island with decorations, furniture and who knows what else. It is hard to believe that there will be 600 guests. Necker Island is pretty small to accomodate such a big party, and so is Little Dix. But we'll see.

Rumor is that Clinton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonny Depp are some of the guests.

So, how is Larry and Lucy's quixotic quest for privacy going? Another friend writes in:

Someone said it perfectly down here, you bring in 600 of your closest friends, bring secret service down to check out the place, bring in anywhere from 15 to 50 containers of "stuff", book up every hotel room around and then they except someone NOT to notice it and take pictures, as they want to "keep it quiet?" "Keep it quiet" would have been going down to city hall in Timbuktu!

Another ink-stained wretchery has already called foul: New York suggests BusinessWeek, in running the article right before Google cofounder Larry Page's wedding to Stanford Ph.D. student Lucy Southworth, is attempting to cause trouble in their tropical paradise. It's all quite silly. Valley billionaires don't give their brides prenups — they give them funding.

A closeup of the tent. Are those security cameras we see?

The trees below are plastic, because real trees apparently get washed away from that part of the island. So eco-friendly!

How does the captain know that they're plastic? By close examination, of course.

On the blog, titled, "M(): From Michael to Megan," Wallent shares experiences unflinchingly — like the time an employee asked if he planned to wax his arms. Answer: No, because waxing is ineffective. Only laser hair removal does the job. Wallent takes a similarly practical approach to the problem of changing gender in official documents, drawing on his experience as a program manager at Microsoft to map out the critical path through bureaucracy.

But Wallent also takes an introspective turn, quoting Bob Dylan lyrics. If you want to know what it's like to be transgendered, the words from this song may give you some insight:

I'm living in a foreign country, but I'm bound to cross the line
Beauty walks a razor's edge; someday I'll make it mine
If I could only turn back the clock to the time when I was born
"Come in" she says, I'll give you shelter from the storm

Kordestani's new love, as is widely known within Google, is Gisel Hiscock, a New York-based finance director for the company.

Before you commenters say it, allow me: Yes, her last name is singularly unfortunate. But since Hiscock joined Google in 2003, before its lucrative IPO, it's unlikely that she's after Kordestani for his money. One imagines she might be more interested in obtaining a new surname.

But back to business. One tipster describes Hiscock's role as "sales finance," a group that now reports to Google's CFO, not Kordestani. Hiscock, however, has been at Google since 2003, and at one point sales finance reported to Kordestani. It's not clear when the affair began, but it's possible that Hiscock was Kordestani's employee at the time. And Kordestani, given his importance to the company, holds unspoken authority within Google that reaches beyond his direct line of command.

Even then, Google's published code of conduct is silent on the propriety of romantic relationships between employees, even when there's a reporting relationship. So it's possible Kordestani and Hiscock did absolutely nothing against the rules. Except for this part:

One way to consider whether a given action, relationship, gift, etc. constitutes a conflict of interest is to imagine you are at a company meeting. Could you justify your actions in front of your peers?

This is a company that as of late last year counted only 100 women among its top 900 executives — those Wallent's rank and higher. In becoming Megan, he'll only improve that ratio by 0.1 percent.

Wallent argues, passionately and convincingly, that it won't matter. His track record of shipping products — including Internet Explorer and, more recently, the foundations of Microsoft's Silverlight Web software — are what will count. His reputation as a thoughtful manager, he says, will matter more than his gender.

Wallent believes the stereotype of Microsoft management — the table-pounding, chest-thumping, loudest-voice-wins culture usually caricatured as sweaty, chair-throwing, white-boy-dancing CEO Steve Ballmer — is a thing of the past. What's prized now is a mellower meritocracy, where the best ideas bubble up to the top through managerial encouragement and support. He says the best compliment he's gotten from his charges recently is being called "Coach," one of the most nurturing labels one can put on a man. That praise may become easier when Michael becomes Megan. Goodbye, Coach; hello, Mom.

Wallent hopes that when he comes back to work, "maybe there are some questions, and then we move on and I keep doing the work I've been doing for 11 years." But at 6'2", Megan Wallent will cut a striking figure.

A question not for Wallent, but for his company: Can a woman, transgendered or otherwise, thrive at Microsoft? Has the culture moved away from its testosterone roots and embraced a way that's more friendly to women as managers? In a few weeks, Megan Wallent will find out for herself.

(Photo by Channel9)

There's hope for you yet. The spectrum goes from red to violet, people. Follow the rainbow! Just think, wearing a different hue will separate you from any party's hoi polloi and give women who want to meet you a better description than "blue shirt and glasses" when they post their missed connection note on Craigslist.

So, how do you break the blue-shirt mold? Start with preppy staples Banana Republic and J. Crew. Sage? Chocolate brown? Maybe even a pale lavender? If you wear it with confidence, you can make just about any color work. And once you stand out enough to get remembered even by ADD-riddled venture capitalists, and land a round of funding, maybe you can upgrade to Thomas Pink.

(Photo credit: Kynance)

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