Frankly, this post just exists so we can say "sex" a lot. But one of Om Malik's bloggers at the tech site GigaOM discovered a great way to illustrate his anti-booth-babe article about the E3 gaming conference.

This just in! One of ZDNet's crazy bloggers has finally gone too far by saying the phrase "Web 3.0" THREE TIMES IN ONE ARTICLE.

[Update: I'm leaving this (inaccurate) item up, but Michael Arrington says he did not — repeat, did not — censor the following comment from MobileCrunch. WordPress, he says, automatically deleted it due to length. Michael says he does regularly delete comments, so if he deletes yours, send it to tips@valleywag.com.]

AOL Netscape head Jason Calacanis has started a trend in user-buying. Fashion site StyleHive followed Jason's lead by e-mailing fashion bloggers, asking them to post fashion-related bookmarks on StyleHive for a dollar each.

Today, superstar blogger Dave Winer is writing from BlogHer, an all-girl blog conference. "Everyone's been very nice, lots of kissing and hugging," writes Dave, before posting a video.

Oh come on, Katie Fehrenbacher. Working at GigaOM isn't like your job at that PR rag called the Red Herring, or that low-rent gig at the Engadget blog. Your boss Om Malik expects you to push the envelope.

It's always fun to discover that found madness is the tip of a big iceberg of crazy. When someone sent in the newsletter of Web 2.0 guru Don Hinchcliffe, we thought that's all we'd get to mock. But Don's one of the famed batshit loco ZDNet bloggers — and he's got DIAGRAMS!

The average overworked Silicon Valley citizen doesn't have time to develop a sense of humor. Valleywag will develop one for you in two minutes.

Boing Boing blogger Xeni Jardin responded to the recent Valleywag post wrapping up a disagreement between YouTube and several writers upset by its Terms of Use. While Valleywag thinks agreement is a lost cause until certain people tone down the rhetoric, in the interest of fairness, here's Xeni's e-mailed response and my reply. For the record, Xeni is awesome, and so is her work.

While all the happenin', relevant journalists were out at the book party for Wired editor Chris Anderson, ZDNet writer Steve Gillmor was at home shutting down his blog, "InfoRouter" (Alternative title: "An Incoherent Truth").

Mark another notch on Boing Boing's bedpost. The super-popular weblog is known for getting a story fast, instead of right, and running updates until it's actually negated the original story. This time, the story is about YouTube's not-really-harmful terms of service.

After just a few months, the new head of Netscape wants out. That's why he's fomenting controversy over his newest job offer — paying his competitors' top users to seed Netscape. When the smoke clears, the site will have a shot in the arm, and Netscape's boss will be closer to leaving for a better gig at AOL.

Nerrrrrrrrdfight! Shelley Powers (a blogger who's usually getting offended) offends the staff at photo sharing site Zooomr with a hilarious targeted entry, "How to Rollout a Web 2.0 Product." The entry says stuff like:

Once, ZDNet was a respectable outlet for level-headed journalists. Then it gave everyone a blog and every day was Someone-unlocked-the-madhouse Day. Today, for example:

Every day's debate day in the blogosphere! Here's what blog aggregator Techmeme says is important.

Oh dear, I've gone and made longtime software developer Marc Canter (pictured here having a reasoned discussion) mad by printing someone's joke about him. Just as a refresher, here's what someone told me (and what I published yesterday):

Dell loses at the Internet again today, as the much-maligned computer maker launches a corporate blog full of first-person press releases and in-house videos. (One clip shows how with Dell's revolutionary Remote Support, customers can get frustrated at customer service technicians on their own screen in real-time.) The tech blogging crowd are rolling their eyes.

Apparently, a bunch of soi-disant A-list bloggers attended an event at The Hotel on Rivington last week, and, as is usually the case when a group of technologically-savvy people who find nothing more fascinating than themselves meet up, there's plenty of video and photography of the event floating around. We feel kind of cruel for making you look at the following photo, but you can never get enough New York blogger news, and we feel like sitting on the story would be even worse. Also, it's sort of a bad news/good news situation: While the photo below does include our boss shirtless in a hot tub, the boss in question is not Nick Denton.

Former Rocketboom anchor Amanda Congdon raised the tension in her professional split with producer Andrew Baron last night with a lengthy blog post titled "For the record." After making her case in the intro, the popular vlogger publishes an entire letter from Andrew to her, with the responses she'd sent to him.

The business divorce between Rocketboom producer Andrew Baron and anchor Amanda Congdon gets bitchier by the hour. (If you just tuned in, see Amanda's original announcement and Andrew's rebuttal.)