Too busy partying in Austin, Dennis Crowley never replied to our questions about whether Foursquare was built on code owned by Google. He's denied it to other press, but we hear he's telling buddies otherwise.

SF Chronicle writer Dan Fost nails his list of "The top 10 lies of Web 2.0" so straight-on, it's almost like he didn't write a heady news spread about the "Digital Utopia" this weekend.

What could be more needlessly messianic than a Bruce Sterling speech, more wide-eyed than a feature story by a cub reporter at Wired, more bubbly than BusinessWeek's "dot com boys" cover story? The Sunday spread by the San Francisco Chronicle, a five-part hymn to Web 2.0.

Last night, I cheated my way into a book party for California-based writer and web publisher Arianna Huffington at the San Francisco guest house of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and romance novelist Melanie Craft Ellison. First lesson: Don't go to a society event dressed for a Silicon Valley geek party. Second lesson: F. Scott Fitzgerald was right, the rich are not like you and me.

Everyone appreciated a break from sucking down coffee at conferences to suck down free martinis at the Anu Bar for Digg's San Francisco party. The social news site previewed its next version, launching Monday. Thanks to Laughing Squid's Scott Beale for these shots!

Web 2.0 (TM) marketer Tara Hunt is less than pleased with how "the media" (read: the SF Chronicle's embedded reporter Dan Fost) covered her event this weekend:

To prove how X-TREEM bloggers roll (they camp! it's in-tents), joined-at-the-hip tech couple Chris Messina and Tara Hunt pulled a gaggle of geeks out to Winecamp this weekend for some roughing-it fun. (By roughing it, I mean their Macs weren't connected to the Internet.) Embedded reporter Dan Fost (pictured) reports at the SF Chronicle's tech blog:

SF Chronicle writer Dan Fost has rolling updates on the "Tumbleweeds in South Park" tale referenced in his South Park feature story.