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“As a normative way of socializing for gay men, online cruising is a disaster. We need to recognize its effects — including its tendency to isolate us, encourage objectification, and diminish our sense of life’s nonsexual possibilities — as disasters. We need to recognize that too many of us, too much of the time, are cruising online because it is …

I’ve read this weekend’s lengthy New York Times Magazine article on internet trolls three times now and I still don’t know what to think. (Did the reporter himself get trolled by his subjects?) In a way, I came away feeling like the troll nonsense we have to deal with in the LGBT blogosphere is waaaay less severe than the shit …

What a weird last few days on teh interwebs, a regular triple play of nonsense. First Haloscan crashes, then Google locked thousands of bloggers out of their accounts, then on Friday afternoon any site with the Sitemeter script on it would no longer open in IE, affecting many thousands of sites. We got a heads-up from the CEO of JS-Kit, …

Have you been reading the hype about Cuil (pronounced “cool”), the new search engine that supposedly tracks three times the number of web pages as Google? I just Cuil-ed myself and among the first ten results are my year-old post about the death of Jerry Falwell, a couple of years-old Daily Kos pages tagged with my name, and other ancient …

Oh, gentle readers, what a twisted, fascinating, maddening, saddening place is this thing called Teh Internets. Remember Cooper? The firefighter gay dad of two adopted boys who pulled his widely-loved blog after an “attack” of malicious comments and emails from the readers of this blog? Causing me to get extremely bent of out shape and offer Cooper a heartfelt (really) …

I know there’s an “internet sensation” every ten seconds, but you really, really, really have to watch Act 1 of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, a singing, acting, evil Doogie Houser bwah-ha-ha-ing bit of genius. Conceived by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, a three-part musical miniseries, has become an online sensation since Part 1’s release …

A cute bit on internet discourse, sent to us by its creator, Kirby Ferguson.

In a similar vein to HotOrNot.com, it’s actually spelled Pos Or Not, and it’s from MTV and Kaiser. Pos or Not, has a serious purpose (tasteful or not). The site, www.posornot.com, introduced in late April, is an H.I.V. education effort disguised as a game. It shows photographs and brief biographies of men and women ages 21 to 30, and asks …

The online game site Xbox LIVE caused some controversy this week after telling a player that he could no longer use his screen name “theGAYERgamer”, saying that the player community found his user name offensive. After receiving complaints, an Xbox rep explained the ruling on his blog: We recieved [sic] a complaint on the Gamertag and determined that it did …

May is National Masturbation Month, in case you didn’t know. San Francisco’s Center For Sex and Culture will be staging a “masturbate-a-thon” on May 28th, so start your training now. The event will be streamed live online and participants from outside SF are invited to take part via their home cams. Sounds like a regular weekend on DudesNude.

Via BBC: The first recognizable e-mail marketing message was sent on 3 May, 1978 to 400 people on behalf of DEC – a now-defunct computer-maker. The message was sent via Arpanet – the internet’s forerunner – and won its sender much criticism from recipients. Thirty years on, spam has grown into an underground industry that sends out billions of messages …

WingNutDaily is claiming that pro-gay hackers have repeatedly crashed the site of Capitol Resource Family Impact, which is working to reverse California’s anti-bullying law, SB777. Staff members for a prominent pro-family organization that has been key to the battle against California’s mandated homosexual indoctrination programs for public schools are working off-site while an investigation is conducted into threats that someone …

In a case involving Roommates.com, the U.S. Court Of Appeals has ruled in an 8-3 vote that internet businesses cannot ask the sexual orientation of clients, saying that it was no different than asking someone in person or by phone if they are Jewish or black. “If such screening is prohibited when practiced in person or by telephone, we see …

No, really. Apparently the business has been around for awhile, but I just learned about Rent-A-Dildo.com from an ad in this week’s HX Magazine. Described by some as a “Netflix for sex toys”, the site promises: We’ve developed a patent-pending process for thoroughly cleaning each toy before it is sent out to a customer. Our extensive research and testing indicate …

My obsession with statistics goes into overdrive in the face of the magic of Google Analytics, which reveals some interesting tidbits about JMG readers. For folks dropping by in the last 30 days, by far the largest chunk of you are in NYC, about 11%, twice as many as #2, San Francisco. The top twenty: 1. NYC2. San Francisco3. Washington …

I’ve been checking out Hulu, the new joint venture from NBC and Fox. Hulu features free streaming of TV shows and movies, but you have to watch an ad a few times during the course of the presentation. AfterElton complains that there isn’t much content of gay interest, but I’ve watched a couple of black-and-white episodes of Bewitched. That’s pretty …

To prove his YouTube fantabulousness, Chris Crocker blinks twice and gets 900K views. I suppose this is a statement on internet fame. Shrug.

The following message was just left in the comments of yesterday’s post and was also emailed to my YouTube account. To whom it may concern, I would first like to make it very clear that Kraljevic had absolutely nothing to do with the making of this video. They are being unfairly targeted. I am the person who made this video, …

(Via – Slog.)

It’s not just politicians who are plagiarizing these days. These identity thieves don’t want your money. They want your quirky sense of humor and your cool taste in music. Among the 125 million people in the U.S. who visit online dating and social-networking sites are a growing number of dullards who steal personal profiles, life philosophies, even signature poems. “Dude …