Amazon buys Zappos. No, you cannot get free returns on Amazon purchases you just “tried on once” at home.
Typical is a scene in which we see the young Mr. Zuckerberg, determined to swipe the member pages of a Harvard student house, sneak into the building intending to plug into its local network. But then he has to hide with his laptop behind a piece of furniture as an amorous couple begins cavorting nearby. [...]
A photo of a young couple sloppily making out pops onscreen. It’s gross, but not against the rules, so Axten punches a key to judge the image appropriate. Next up: a young woman in panties only, covering her breasts with her hands. “That’s pretty close,” Axten says, pondering the image. There’s nothing arbitrary about his [...]
Here is a photo composite of Jeff “not a sexless founder-entrepreneur” Bezos on a bearskin rug from my Valleywag days. Because we need this now:
More on Amazon’s ushering of queer & sexuality titles into a dirtier, ill-lit corner of their shelves: the LA Times blog asks why American Psycho remains indexed as any other book when Running with Scissors is buried, Edrants calls for a boycott, and Heather Corinna blogs at Amazon wondering why clearly marked explicit porn titles [...]
Rebecca Fox and Rachel Sklar are next in Sexerati’s Sex @ SXSWi series — for their panel, “Why Professional Blogging is Bloodsport for Women.” Rebecca is the Managing Editor at Mediabistro; Rachel was the Founding Editor at The Huffington Post’s Eat the Press, and is now with the media consulting firm Abrams Research. First I [...]
More Sex @ SXSWi, this time with Keely Kolmes, Psy.D. Keely is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, who has worked part-time as a Staff Psychologist at Counseling and Psychological Services at Stanford University for the past five years. Keely says, “I have been living my life online since 1993. Prior to [...]
Seriously, what’s going on at TED? A site called makelovenotporn.com was launched there today, which, aside from the ridiculously presumptuous name posing porn and love as oppositional, is just the kind of shoddy deconstruction of porn one might expect from someone who has already decided that porn is a monolith that can be deconstructed at [...]
Sex @ SXSWi Interview #1 is Maria Diaz. Maria is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. She writes for bitchbuzz and is a television writer for b5media. Most of her blogging is currently confined to Tumblr. Here she gets into her panel, “A History of Growing Up Online,” so it is not oversharing to [...]
From March 13 – 17, the internet’s going on spring break to Austin for South by Southwest. SXSWi, the Interactive festival, is a four or fiveish day blur of panels you meant to go to, people you hope you remember, and parties and parties and parties. The goto app last year for managing the mad [...]