Their people are all dodgy cheese-ball ex-strip club announcers, yet they think they’re crafty ‘entertainment’ types.

Legally, it’s one thing to say that you’re going to link to someone and can I get your approval? And then turning around and changing the context of the link-off.

Consider, Michael Arrington, I’m going to link to your blog. IS that okay with you? It’s a feature on top tech blogs.

michael approves.

Oh by the way, by top I mean top Arian tech blogs. It’s for our feature Nazi Tech Blogs Monthly.

What? you said it was okay to link to you. STop snivelling. What do you expect?

Del Conte’s voice is annoying and she brings nothing to the table technology wise whenever they force feed here on BOL but I would definitely want her to win (plus its a magazine, so you dont get to hear her!)

Playboy wanted to do a girls of bloggin spread? Oh, I am shocked.

Get over yourselves ladies, most of your fans/stalkers have seen you naked in their fantasies a thousand times. I can guaranteed you that if these chicks weighed 220lbs, with two chins, they wouldnt get one follower on Twitter.
Dorks dont think “oh, she’s cute” in a platonic way, there s lots of lotion lovin’ fantasies that come with that kind of devotion.
Sex sells. Now youre just haggling over how much you wanna sell.

Btw, my vote goes to Leo Laporte’s hot techie, Colleen, the goth chic, who actually is a true hands on geek as opposed to the other princesses who are tech consumers and commentators.

Competition would suggest the girls had some input into the selection process, by “competing”. It’s a popularity contest. And in the end, just another way to drive traffic.

Playboy has become too much of a business. The people who run the magazine now have no concept of attractiveness – Xeni is just plain weird looking, and Sarah Lacy! I think it’s almost fair to say Playboy “jumped the shark” with that choice.

Coincidentally, I’ll likely be posting topless photos of my daughter on the internet in the next couple months. She’s expected to be delivered some time in October ;p

Sadly, meanwhile, our culture has moved on to more perverse occupations rendering Playboy a Norman Rockwell-styled fallback to the fetishes of years gone by.

The lesson here is the same lesson everyone who’s been paying attention should have learned many years ago with Hefner’s organization: There’s no way to shake hands with the devil and not have some green slime still stuck to your palm.

Did Playboy deceive? Of course. That’s the very nature of their business: to deceive men, to twist truth, to degrade women. A more prudent and cautious person would have given pause to such an email. The fact they responded so quickly and eagerly to gain a few cheap inbound links perhaps shows how little “expertise” some of these women have on our culture, and maybe even the internet.

If they really wanted exposure, they would have written articles slamming the invite to begin with, slamming Playboy, Inc. for its cheap and tawdry methods to gain readership, and, in general, be a leader to thousands of young women by refusing to have any alliance with such an organization that helps contribute to all manner of hurt in this world. Instead, they plastered a big message on their foreheads that says, essentially, “For Sale. Price: $cheap publicity”.

The fact they got burned by the schmoozy sales tactics of “Antonia” and her little shenanigan is perhaps, almost just deserts. Not quite, but almost.

Sadly, this story isn’t over. It would hardly surprise me to see that Playboy still wins out by getting one of the women to pose. If not the “winner”, but a runner-up. Some women will do anything for attention. The fact they are bloggers probably only makes matters worse.

Whatever happened to the good ol’ days of linkbait? Am I going to have to bite off a bat’s head while wearing Speedo’s to get more blog traffic? Forget it. I’ll bow out with Jason Calacanis now if that’s the case. Andrew Keen gets more street cred with each passing day on the internet.

In other respects, it’s kind of a non-issue. I would gladly give my spot up to someone who wishes to pose, but it’s not my choice! It’s in the hands of the Playboy folks.

2. You honestly believe that Playboy including you in an article on sexiest female blogger isn’t going to involved a large number of men imagining you naked anyway? How is an invitation to pose nude (which you can decline) worse than that?

3. If your parents are the type who are going to be concerned about Playboy possibly asking you to pose nude, you need to explain to them why you agreed to get involved with Playboy in the first place.

at the end of the day, some girls like posing naked, some would dream of playboy asking them to, this is great. but some don’t and deserve to be left alone.