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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://nerve.com/CS/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Scanner : alt.porn</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/alt.porn/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: alt.porn</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)</generator><item><title>SuicideGirls.com Lays Off Bloggers, Including Ensign Wesley Crusher </title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/03/suicidegirls-com-lays-off-bloggers-including-ensign-wesley-crusher.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:61596</guid><dc:creator>Bryan Christian</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=61596</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/01/03/suicidegirls-com-lays-off-bloggers-including-ensign-wesley-crusher.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/01/01-07/sg_wilwheaton.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/01/01-07/sg_wilwheaton.jpg" alt="" align="right" border="0" height="200" hspace="" width="307" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;More indication of trouble in SuicideGirlLand, as SG blogger and former child star Wil Wheaton reports that &lt;a href="http://suicidegirls.com/news/geek/22830/" target="_blank"&gt;he has been let go as a blogger by the embattled alt.porn site&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Due to budget cuts at the Newswire, this will be the last Geek in
Review. It’s been an awesome year, but all good things must come to an
end, and I think the GiR will be very happy living on a farm where it
can play with other columns all day long.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have no idea what &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; means, but Boinkology reports that &lt;a href="http://boinkology.com/2008/01/02/suicidegirls-fires-news-staff/" target="_blank"&gt;Wheaton isn&amp;#39;t the only blogger to get the axe&lt;/a&gt;. Noted comics writer and weekend contributor &lt;a href="http://boinkology.com/2008/01/02/suicidegirls-fires-news-staff/" target="_blank"&gt;Warren Ellis has also been given the heave-ho&lt;/a&gt;, along with &amp;quot;the bulk of [SG&amp;#39;s] writing staff.&amp;quot; Budget cuts are blamed all around, with our reaction to that being similar to Boinkology commenter &amp;quot;&lt;span class="commentauthor"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stickandgiggle.com/" rel="external nofollow"&gt;A&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;More money for the lawyers...&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Previously: &lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2007/11/26/suicide-girls-rated-quot-f-quot-by-better-business-bureau.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Suicide Girls Rated &amp;quot;F&amp;quot; by Better Business Bureau&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://fleshbot.com/339642/" target="_blank"&gt;[Via Fleshbot]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=61596" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/suicide+girls/default.aspx">suicide girls</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/alt.porn/default.aspx">alt.porn</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Wil+Wheaton/default.aspx">Wil Wheaton</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Warren+Ellis/default.aspx">Warren Ellis</category></item></channel></rss>