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Davezilla.com is a long-running humor site, run by Information Architect 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.
[edit] Anagram InterviewsIn 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:
[edit] Personal InformationDave 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. [edit] References
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