On Geek Entertainment TV, the fun video blog hosted by faux-clueless Irina Slutsky (a master at cutting through buzzwords and making tech sound dirty), dot-com billionaire Mark Cuban recaps his talk to the Consumer Electronics Association. Topics include MySpace perverts, drunk e-mail checking, advanced TV tech, and how his startup Broadcast.com was different from YouTube (sure it was: YouTube is actually worth something).

Like forest fires in Colorado and tornadoes in Kansas, Silicon Valley is always alert to the national disaster that could shake it to its foundations.

The subjects of yesterday's SF Chron story on video blogging come from all over. Some are nearly mainstream, some known only to hundreds. But everyone in the piece falls into one of two major categories:

You can tell how cool a party is by who's on the free tees. As a Rubyred Labs member told me, "You know those cool American Apparel shirts? They feel great. Well, I got one, but across the front it had a big logo, [in a broad obnoxious voice] FOLDEEEEERA. I'm never gonna wear that shirt!"

Geek Entertainment TV celebrated its 1000th subscriber with a boozefest and gameshow at San Francisco's House of Shields. The snappy online talk show also taped another episode. Host Irina Slutsky interviewed cosmopolitan geek Jake Appelbaum (the photographer, hacker, and motorbiker with his own FBI file). Scott Beale snapped pics: