Potpourri Redux
News and Notes for June 4
I had a great time at the encore screening of ASHLEY AND KISHA at the New York LGBT center on May 22. Also on the bill was Aimee Herman, who gave a great reading of selected works. I picked up a copy of Self Diagnosed Lactose Intolerance, which she was nice enough to sign for me. It now resides on the table next to our bed.
After years of trying, when I failed to make contact with Em & Lo during the big push for MATT AND KHYM, I gave up trying. But then this morning a surprising URL in our inbound links. I guess if you keep at it long enough, people will come to you.
As noted in my previous, CameraPlayForCouples.com is up an running, and the response so far is exactly what I hoped for. In someways I think private cameraplay is as good or perhaps even a better venue for examining our cultures values around sex, shame, photography, intimacy, privacy, consent; and how the confused messages we receive can inhibit our finding our way to nourishing, wholesome sexual relationships. If you like the thinkier posts here, I think you’ll like yesterday’s Consent, Context, and Clutter.
Search returns on Microsoft’s new Bing search engine are a lot friendlier to Comstock Films than the same searches on Google, which are overrun with torrent sites and out-of-date republished versions of our old podcast feed. Has Bing cracked the spam problem that Google couldn’t or wouldn’t? Time will tell.
Just like Google, [Clitoris] is not a “safe” word on Bing. But unlike Google, [penis] is not safe on Bing either. I’m not sure that’s progress, but at least it’s equitable, and the ergonomics of the “not safe” warning on Bing make the reasons for zero returns more clear. While Google gives a greyed out bit easy to miss of text, Bing offers a hard to miss chunk of copy that includes a link to change your search settings. Unfortunately, filter settings are not carried in the URL, so you’ll have go play with Bing to see this for yourself, but a provisional thumbs up for Bing on this one.
