surviving scandal live blog

with guest star Irene from the Real World

medium sized room at the hilton half way filled.

rule 1. dont panic. “no matter how bad you think it is on valleywag, it’s probably not that bad.”

theyre now trying to define what is a scandal. “something that you dont want out there” “damaging” “damaging to reputation”

one company that was in a scandal bought up a lot of google keywords so they could explain their side and diffuse the problem or at least have a voice in the conversation.

now a british woman is talking about her british sex scandal.

blah blah blah i space out. they introduce a woman (pictured, in green shirt) who was in the Real World. she was the one who got slapped in the Seattle season.

“it kind of makes all the top reality show moments.” she says.

at the end of the day it’s a woman being assaulted.

“if you dont give them stuff, they cant make a story out of it.”

“the people who are going to love you will love you, the other people will believe what they want to believe.”

she regrets going on E! True Hollywood Story.

omg puppiez

omg ive totally been cheating on you, busblog.

ive have been writing a little for the LA times blogs

they’re super lame stories, i blame the internet. i will be much better now for music. you’ll see

animals make their mark on sxsw – unleashed

#fakesxsw – technology

theres a photo essay one and one im doing with video that will probably be up today or tomorrow.

then comes the metal.

update: heres the photo essay, photos by kk+

ur blog sux and print is dead live blog part three

dooce: my readers saved my life by suggesting that i go to treatment because of post-partum depression.

question: how do you keep making it funny. do you gravitate to more serious material

white guy: im done with serious material.

cox: heather’s

dooce: i walk away at 6pm, i dont write on the weekends, i don’t twitter on the weekends. i know people think i blog in my underwear, which is a nice image now that im 6 months pregnant. but creative work is extraordinarily exhausting. i need to have my brain breathe.

passiveagressive woman: could you speak about cashing checks?

dooce: i am ready for the bottom to fall out at any moment.

LOL: i think being frugal is really important. yay cat pictures. do people actually advertise on a blog with cat pictures? me and my wife are so frugal. we eat ramen and pet our dog all night.

cox: the only industry that has a more fuct business model than blogging is book publishing. at wonkette she got $12 a post. book publishing has set her free.

liveblogging the Ur blog sux panel part two

passive aggressive woman: blogging is like crack, you put it up there and you get feedback.

white people guy: you get feedback from crack?

lol cats guy: thats more like acid.

(later)

lol cats guy: i didnt write it, i bought the popular site.

white stuff guy so you earned it

lol cat guy: act like a rock star. they want you to do things on their terms. in most cases (publishers) want the talent. dont let them change what they want.

white guy: i had a great time with my book publisher. they didnt ask me to change anything.

the panel hates him.

dooce: “we’re (mommybloggers) not going to wait around.” theyre’re approached by publishers who disrespect them. i was sued by a publishing company and paid a lot of money not to write a book. it was a horrible experience.

dooce: you do not ever get to take a break. if you take two days off people are like are you ok did you die?

white guy: dont tell me to add Stuff White People Like to Stuff White People Like.

cox: i quit. it was too much. not so much the negativity. but the ability to leave the house. if you want to quit… i traded doing something that i loved but not being able to leave to house, to doing something i dont love as much but i get to meet people.

huh: you dont have to write yourself. you can plug in someone else to write the blog for you and then pay them. its called a business. it works.

question: how do you determine your boundaries as to what you wont write about?

white guy: im pretty vicious about myself. i wont write about abortion. if the asian girls post has 4000 comments… imagine what an abortion would be like.

dooce: i enjoy fostering the persona that i’d say anything. our sex life is one of them.

cox: theres nothing i wont mock.

question: all of you have made the jump to print, yet the panel is called print is dead.

miller: also our blogs suck.

white guy: its also dealing with the consequences of success. it was tough to sleep at night when his book came out because so many people wanted it to fail. people really do want you to fail.

dooce: i was misquoted in an interview. why would musicians have a hard time dealing with fame? youre suddenly aware that 100 to 1000 to 100k people hate you. it can screw with your head.

question: books and blogs – a combo of great voice with great ideas. does voice matter.

white guy: idea and execution. if its just a voice its hard for things to grow.

passive agressive woman: lots of people have great ideas. its hard to get off your ass and doing it.

question: how do you deal with AOL newbie speak without wanting to kill yourself?

LOL guy: i have a degree with how to write. northwestern. language evolves. its going to change.

white guy: when did we agree that animals talk? later… i was a TA for four years, its not the comments that are the only places where language is LOL bad. the college kids cant write. if you write about Race in any way, the UR in the comments is the least of your problem.

liveblogging the UR blog sux and print is dead panel

lander of Stuff White People Like – got people searching for Fair Trade Coffee (which he was making fun of) and got readers 4 lyfe.

kerry miller of passiveagressivenotes.com: dont start a blog if youre trying to be internet famous. people can tell.

they are going to questions after 10 minutes. which is weird cuz theyre funny people.

first question: im actually live-tweeting this (audience groans). then asks about death threats – how do you handle it?

Huh from LOLcats tries to think of a phrase longer than 140 characters. “the base level of the Internet is douchebag.” when youre nice to people will go from threatening your life to being apologetic and very nice.

lander: a fair amount of people arent going to like me. im ok with that.

armstrong (dooce): when she gets mail to her actual house, that freaks her out because she has a PO Box thats public.

questioner: how do you explain to old

ana marie: i want to set up an adivce column for people who are internet famous because we have problems. like, some people dont know we’re famous.

Huh: its hard for me to walk down the block without cats rubbing against my leg.

cox: you get a lot of pussy then.

lander: i try, i dress like a White Guy every day…

Huh: we’re internet famous so we’re no better than Steve Urkle. in fact he walks down the street and everyone knows who he is.

lander (deadpan) : his name is Jalele White and hes moved on and done far more bigger things since Family Matters.

Dooce admits that she doesnt like reading or writing books. prefers magazines and blogs.