Honest to goodness, we weren't even planning on going to the Wired Rave Awards, much less wandering in uninvited (we've been, it's not all that). We just dropped by to hand off some equipment we'd borrowed to cover the "Mary Carey for Governor" campaign-cum-promotional junket at the Virgin Megastore for another New York-based blog publishing empire (no, not Weblogs, Inc. -- they're based out of Reston, Virginia now). Maybe it was the Thriftown suit and......

Ah, nothing like controversy to get the week off to a good start. Susie Bright isn't particularly happy after lending JT her support early on (scroll down for more from Susie in the comments). And Edward Champion reminds us that JT isn't the only one lacking a firm grasp on the line between fact and fiction, with James Frey under the microscope. Municide publishes a response to their own flight of fancy, purportedly from......

Let's start by kicking out the jams. DJ Icewater mixes the sounds of Yay Area soul from past to present for a a Shout Magazine Shoutcast. What's old to Swerbo but new to us are hi-fi recordings of The Slip and Surprise Me Mr. Davis show at the Independent in November. Nicole Lee suggests some music podcasts, including a podcast by geek-rock legends They Might Be Giants. And topping the Yahoo search charts for......

Anil Dash shares some timely insights into online communities. Danah Boyd finds herself caught in the middle of the debate over Wikipedia. Tom Foremsi and felow journos sup on Google sushi while their old employers crumble around them. And Jeff Nolan explores some novel theories about Yahoo's purchase of del.icio.us. Headline of the week goes to Edward Champion for "New Podjack City." Eran explores the tenuous connection between The Facebook and The Agency. Google......

Left in SF is the first on the scene with the liveblog from today's citywide wifi hearings — look for a full recap here at SFist tomorrow. Anil Dash takes a long look at a recent WSJ article about Project Guttenberg, praising the tone of the piece and making some comparisons to the Google Books project. Leland "Video Game Violence" Yee gives mad props to DiFi and OG Lantos for expanding the GGNRA in......

Now appearing 50% more often! San Francisco is not particularly happy with Sony right now. Law Geek Jason Schultz explains the rootkit fiasco to Irina Slutsky and Eddie Codel of GETV, and while talented graffitti writers continue to be harrassed by the SFPD, Sony has no trouble spraypainting our town with 'viral' ads for the PSP. In other video game action, Electronic Arts is getting sued for stealing an idea for an independent game......

So, of course, we were busy yukking it up with funnyman Merlin Mann last night at the Web 1.0 confab. Silly us, making fun of the 'monetizing,' 'paradigm shifting,' 'game changing' intellects who took a bunch of great ideas from engineers and developers and turned them into marketing juggernauts, with or without a business plan. Let's just say that VRML, FrontPage, Flash, the <blink> tag, dual ISDN and other ante-dot-bomb technologies were rightly pilloried......

Special, "You'd better recognize, fool" edition. This goes out to all you new kids on the block. First off, a man wise beyond his years once said, "never act like you're an expert on blogging. That's like being an expert on Aaron Burr: only your mom cares." We respect that rule, which is why we're going to link to some guides on blogs by people smarter than we are: Anil Dash's "The Blog Cycle",......

Special "Keeping tech sexy, or at least vulgar" edition. We've snarked before on Steve Jobs, um, wardrobe, so it was with great delight that we found on BoingBoing "Dress-up Steve Jobs" flash doohickey. We're thinking it may just convince him to wear something frilly to MacWorld next year -- it would be very flattering, Steve. Anil Dash Goatse'd the New York Times! Potentially offensive, yes. Completely hilarious, yes. What's not to like? If you......

Uttered by Anil Dash at a South by Southwest panel this year, SFist thought it was a great appraisal of the many, many social and interest groups that create their own social networks through blogs. Of course, you could always go Venn diagram crazy (SFist would like to think we're at the nexus of a bunch of different groups centered on The City), as the various groups blend. So your new dad-lefty political enthusiast-Buffy......

SFist would like to present photographic proof that life exists outside of New York City. That's right, as lamented by Gothamist and cheered by SFist, Anil Dash, Internet Superstar, has officially landed here in San Francisco. We had the pleasure of attending Six Apart's Moveable Type Sneak Peek yesterday evening at the Varnish Gallery in SOMA. It was like stepping back into 1999, when the booze was free, the schwag was top-notch and geeks ruled the universe....