Kazaa maker Sharman Networks — the file-sharing company that once had the balls to sue the record industry for copyright infringement while they were doing the same to Sharman — sued P2PNet for libel last week.

Everyone's famous on the Internet! And the webstars really shine in Scott Beale's Wednesday photos from O'Reilly ETech 2006. In this edition, Ted Rheingold of Dogster, 3/4 of the Boing Boing crew, and an episode of escalating violence.

The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (or ETech for the impatient) is in full swing today, after a rousing start on Monday. The event sold out ages ago, but through the magic of Scott Beale's photography, we can pretend we made it in. (If you want to pretend you met Cory Doctorow and he loved your sci-fi story idea, have that fantasy on your own.) Here are highlights from Scott's meticulous Monday photojournalism.

Guy Kawasaki sparked a debate by writing "How to Suck Up to a Blogger." Is it ethical to pile schwag and compliments on bloggers? Who the hell cares, it's fun. But it'll take a more careful approach to really win over certain A-list bloggers:

Cyberpunk writer Paul di Filippo tells of the San Francisco of the future, in which a dozen named bloggers, most of whom have print gigs and none of whom actually hail from the city, wander around San Francisco's fugtastic Transamerica Pyramid. Filippo runs into BoingBoinger Cory Doctorow:

So Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan are leaving for New York. Jason says he never felt at home in San...