Davezilla

Davezilla.com is a humor website, run by C-E Social Media Director Dave Linabury since December, 1994. It began much as Yahoo did, as a link portal to items of interest to Linabury, humor and hacking links. In 1996, Linabury began adding his cartoons. When the first blogging platforms emerged, Davezilla switched to a daily site, focusing mainly on humor at the suggestion of blogger Jeffrey Zeldman. Since then, it has become a popular destination for bloggers. In 2000, the site gained notoriety by receiving a Cease and desist letter from Seyfarth Shaw, the legal representation for the Toho Corporation of Japan. After Linabury posted the C&D letter on numerous blogs and legal websites, Seyfarth Shaw backed off.

Anagram Interviews

In 2000, Davezilla.com began running "Anagram Interviews", a concept pioneered by Linabury in which a fake interview was conducted with answers composed only of anagrams of the interviewee's name. For example, this excerpt from the interview with Paris Hilton:

Davezilla: “First off, how do you start the week?”
Paris Hilton: “I plan or shit.” Davezilla: “Um, Paris? What are you doing under the table? Drop something?”
Paris Hilton: “Lost hairpin.” Davezilla: “I heard you once seduced Ralph Lauren.”
Paris Hilton: “I sit on Ralph.”

Personal information

Dave Linabury was born January 30, 1964. He is currently the Social Media Director at Campbell-Ewald in Warren, Michigan. He has been interviewed by Wired magazine, CNET and several other publications on the subject of blogging.

References

• New York Times: Compressed Data; And Now the Sequel: Every-zilla Meets the Lawyers
• CNET: Godzilla vs. the blog thing
• Register UK: Godzilla attacks harmless blogger
• Chilling Effects: Godzilla tries to stomp Davezilla.com
• Wikipedia: List of American bloggers

External links

• Official website