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Going back into Second Life
Finishing out the grand trilogy of Second Life experiences begun here and here, Valleywag Vuckovic will be tooling around SL tonight, somewhere, sometime. As mentioned previously, I'm specifically interested in reviewing the virtual presences of real-world entities. Many people have sent in suggestions, and I'll try to get to everything and everyone. Feel free to drop me a line with any further ideas for pit stops. And yes, this time I do intend to buy a penis. And a gun. Either one makes about the same amount of sense, really. -
Google
Korean website tangles with Google over self-esteem issues
Last month, a South Korean joke/entertainment site called Humor University (certainly not to be confused with College Humor!) engaged in a tiny sideshow of legal threats versus Google over the search giant terminating their Adsense account. Google claimed there was some clickfraud chicanery going on with the Humor University account, which HU disputed. Unfortunately for Google, the issue got much larger, irritating, and potentially costly. More » -
Corrections
Wikipedia expert fabricates his own bio
Last year's long New Yorker article about Wikipedia relied heavily on a Wikipedia contributor and administrator who goes by the handle of "Essjay." He had been recommended to the writer by Wikipedia management, and his bio described him as "a tenured professor of religion at a private university" with "a Ph.D. in theology and a degree in canon law." Unfortunately, it turns out that Essjay is actually 24-year-old Ryan Jordan, a gent who has no advanced degrees and has never taught canon law or anything else. More » -
Digg
Snipe-hunting Digg's bury brigade
There's more and more anxious hand-wringing over the Digg "Bury Brigade" — i.e., secretly and/or informally allied Digg users who purposefully bury Digg stories that are unflattering to Digg or which represent unfriendly viewpoints. The most amusing thing about the "debate" is watching such stories turn up on Bigspy, one of the visual representation toys created by Digg Labs. First there were stories about Digg, then stories about Digg burying those stories, which themselves were buried. And now you're reading a post about those stories which likely won't even end up on Digg, but if it did, it would totally be buried. And you could watch the meta-magic happen! In real time! -
The Devil's Dictionary: True definitions of "vlog" and other terms
NICK DOUGLAS — Vlog: To stare into a dark hole after too much vodka and project things at it which no one likes to see. Below are more technical terms re-defined.
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re-org
Dodgeball darkening?
Not since Biggie vs. Tupac have the East and West coasts been embroiled in as bloody a feud as Dodgeball versus Twitter. Since the former was acquired by Google, it's been the subject of occasionally surfacing rumors that it may be culled or consolidated inside a broader Google mobile offering. Twitter user cee-dub plants a rumor that Dodgeball.com may be about to "go dark"; no clue whether he means just the website or the service entire. Concur or dispute? -
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vlog hot
Vlog Hot: Votes, close races, and upsets
Voting for the Vlog Hot video blogger hotness poll continues through this weekend; polls will close at noon Eastern time on Sunday, March 4. Semifinals will launch the following Monday. Many thousands of votes have already tallied, but note that even wide margins should be no deterrent, as everyone can vote once per day in all contests (just delete cookies from your browser, or specifically, delete cookies from polls.gawker.com, to vote anew daily). So energize your base and get out the vote. Several surprises in the making — popular kids Amanda Congdon and Ze Frank are getting trounced, for example. After the jump, a complete index of all open races and contestants, with the current favorite (as of this writing) highlighted in bold for each heat. More » -
Nightlife
Party Report: Revision3 at Slide
MEGAN MCCARTHY — Last night marked a soiree at Slide for Revision3, the net TV net brought to you by the fine folks at Digg. Indie mag XLR8R has joined the outfit with XLR8R TV; mag founder Andrew Smith says the show covers "cutting-edge music and culture." (Also, the host of the show is named — no joke and completely coincidentally — Vivian Host.) Slide is a newish club partially owned by Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams (he was there, but left before I could be introduced). Slide's speakeasy theme perplexingly includes an actual slide patrons can use to enter the club; is this how it was done back in Prohibition? At least two people copped to using the slide last night. "It's a lot better in a speedo," said one. As are so many things. Full gallery of fotographic fun may be found here, courtesy of lenswoman Lane Hartwell. After the jump, our report and a sample of the visual entertainment. More » -
living legends
Tom Perkins, cowboy of the old school
Noted author and former Hewlett-Packard board member Tom Perkins gave his first public talk yesterday since the HP board scandal blew up last September. Perkins complained about the growing prevalence of "compliance boards" that spend all their time obsessing about regulatory compliance, versus "guidance boards" that get involved in the company's business. Perkins places himself firmly in the latter camp, of course, and further notes that "the best of compliance boards would be entirely unable to prevent another Enron." Of course, the best of Perkins-style guidance boards would in turn be completely poleaxed by another HP pretexting scandal. -
San Francisco
Gavin Newsom's purple pal
Han Shin, the man accused of stalking San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom while wearing purple latex gloves, says he "wears purple latex gloves because he believes purple is a sign of divinity and royalty." Observe Shin's regal air in the Chronicle photos above. In addition, Shin threatened his parents last year, and then shone a laser pointer into a prosecutor's eyes at his court appearance. His parents say he's bipolar and gets a little crazy when off his meds. Shocking, that.
San Francisco, 9:19 AM
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