{{no footnotes, date=January 2009 Davezilla.com is a humor website, run by

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, Dave Linabury since December, 1994. It began 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

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letter from Seyfarth Shaw, the legal representation for the Toho Corporation of Japan due to the website's name being partly derived from the word " Godzilla." After Linabury posted the C&D letter on numerous blogs an
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

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s of the interviewee's name. For example, this excerpt from th
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 a full-time illustrator in the Detroit area. He has been interviewed by Wired magazine,

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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

* Register UK
Godzilla attacks harmless blogger
* Chilling Effects
Godzilla tries to stomp Davezilla.com
* Wikipedia: List of American bloggers

External links

Official website
American bloggers Living people American comedy websites Year of birth missing (living people)