If you don’t know who Violet Blue is, don’t worry. She’s just a sex blogger. Which is like a regular blogger, except even less interesting. But she’s known, in the circles where she’s known, for being affiliated with BoingBoing. You know, BoingBoing? The “directory of wonderful things”? The third most popular blog in the world? They’re the sort of people who you’d associate with the Internet, if you knew next to nothing about the Internet. Did you ever see the movie Hackers? The BoingBoing dorks are like that, except older and less plausible as actual humans.
They give a lot of lip service to “Information wants to be free” and other cliches, and they’re all like totally against censorship, man. Which is why it’s weird that BoingBoing has scrubbed almost all mention of Violet Blue from their archives. Most of the nearly 100 posts about her, and the accompanying links, are now gone. And as you know if you’re reading this, blogs need traffic like Will Smith needs attention.
BoingBoing hasn’t explained it at this point (beyond a vague and arrogant statement from BoingBoingers Teresa Nielsen Hayden and Xeni Jardin), but a blog called the Tomorrow Museum thinks it might be due to an SF Chronicle column Blue wrote slamming Amanda Congdon, yet another overhyped Internet “celebrity.” Valleywag has some other theories, if you’re still reading this far. Anyway, the point is: the Internet is no different than anything or anyplace else. It’s just faster.
Yes, I just wrote a whole blog post about another blog deleting posts about yet another blog. Don’t worry, I’ll come up with some more jokes about Jessica Simpson’s boobs before you know it.
P.S. If you’re still awake and haven’t slit your wrists, the LA Times has more about this nerdy nonstory here and here. And VB tries to figure out what she did wrong here.
P.P.S. Seth Finkelstein says it best: “For all the argument-Olympics of hairsplitting over rights, it all comes down to power, to might-makes-right. Boing Boing is not notable for extending charity and understanding to those they accuse of having committed ethical transgressions against openness and transparency.”
P.P.P.S. The story made today’s (7/6) New York Times.
Well Jessica Simpson boob jokes are what we need. Because from that picture it sure doesn’t look like that woman knows a lot about sex.
I think it’s hilarious the way you denounce everyone involved in this story and are so smug about their lack of importance, and yet, YOU’RE BLOGGING ABOUT THEM. Smells like bitter jealousy to me.
Ha Ha Pasta. Just what I was thinking. Actually, I’m not all that attractive at 44 and after having kids, but that don’t mean I ain’t been there and back. Srsly, though, people get their feelings hurt too easy online. So the world loses access to her sex stories…..who exactly gets hurt by this??
What I was surprised to hear is there is stuff about sex on this internet thing. Because I have never really seen any. I swear.
Post does sound a little bitter but the bitterness makes the second and third sentences right on point. This is from someone who used to read sex blogs until y’know, I got an actual girlfriend.
Other than that, I was lost in this post but kept reading because it was so bitter. But my point is, the internet is it’s own best hype machine. Example: after I stopped surfing so much, I stopped hearing about Web 2.0.
And your comment doesn’t, presumably…
She’s actually a pretty decent blogger, so it’s not like they suddenly woke up and realised she’s crap - I smell catfight. Catfight!!!
Karma is a bitch!
[Entire article from someplace or other
unpublisheddeleted. Please just give the URL and a brief excerpt. And welcome to the Internet. -- Mgmt.]I used to read BoingBoing every day but found Xeni Jardin and Cory Doctorow too insufferable to read.
Xeni is a huge hypocrite. Click my website link to read a post I made about it.
I’m all for equality, but shouldn’t you have to pass some basic standard of attractiveness just to qualify for writing about sex? I wouldn’t hit that with someone else’s dick.
Dr. Ruth managed to educate a generation about sex and look at her!
But yeah, I know what you mean, Scott F. I’ve never heard of her or Boing Boing, though, so I can’t really comment further.
The story was from a porn site. That’s why I didn’t link it. But in a nutshell, this Violet Blue sued a porn star named Violet Blue last year for the name Violet Blue that the porn star had used since 2000. The porn star had no money to hire enough lawyers and because of a bad defense, she lost her name which means she lost her website that she made her living from all to this sex columnist. And it’s a proven fact that the porn star was using the name first in 2000 while this Violet Blue started using it in 2001 though she says she started publishing since 1999 but there is no evidence to that. I went back to that porn site and now the blogger is saying if there is a link to this Violet Blue being canned from BoingBoing last year and her suing porn star Violet Blue last year. Because this Violet Blue still has no idea why BoingBoing did what they did.
Stop saying Violet Blue.
Ennui. It took nearly all my strength just to type that.
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This might be a good thing. Maybe she should’ve thought about wearing a paper bag over her face. Then it might work.
The NY Times picture of her is certainly more flattering. I would definitely listen to THAT woman’s dirty tal- sex advice.