Tomorrow is the first WordCampRVA and it’s gonna be great. What is WordCamp?
WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people.
A look [...]
Checking out NRO articles this morning I found an interesting disclaimer at the top of the article Planned Parenthood Matters:
EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through United Media. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact Carmen Puello at cpuello@unitedmedia.com.
The article is an interesting read but I kept coming back to [...]
From Scott’s Morning Brew comes word that Democratic Lt. Gov. candidate Pat Edmonson is suing to shut down and identify the author of an anonymous blog:
Edmonson spokesman Conner Morris said the campaign is “hiring security, which is highly unusual for this kind of race” because of concerns about the threatening tone of some of the [...]
RichmondWiki is neat. I like the idea of creating an encyclopedia of Richmond and others being able to give their takes and bits of info they know as well. I’m not sure how successful it’ll be in the long run of providing a good history of Richmond, but it’s already shaping up to be a [...]
Fan of the Fan is a new community blog for all things the Fan. Give it a peek and enjoy.
The last week has seen a bombardment of articles from newspapers crying about how necessary they are for the sake of society and community. Two recent examples out of The Washington Post point out that newspapers cover the police and the legislature better than anyone else can ever hope to. In the latter, Marc Fisher [...]
In a huge legal precident that could have some immediate repercussions here in Virginia, Maryland’s highest court ruled that websites do not have to readily reveal anonymous commenters’ identities in defamation suits:
[T]he court used the case to recommend a strict, five-step process for judges to follow “to balance the First Amendment right to anonymous speech [...]
While that’s not the full question in play in Waldo Jaquith’s recent legal troubles it certainly is a large one as Thomas Garrett and his lawyers try to get information from Waldo about his commenters and their private information. From the Motion To Compel:
[W]hile Virginia recognizes a qualified repotter’s privilege, see Brown v. Com., 214 [...]
Blogging is dead because it has gone mainstream. Evan Williams, one of the creators of Blogger, adds his thoughts on where Blogger can go on his blog.
Eric Fehrnstrom gives an account of what Republican candidates faced from netroots activists in 2008 and in closing asks:
Where are the online gatekeepers? Gatekeeping is the most important function for the offline media. Editors decide which stories get published. They make sure rumors aren’t printed. Sensitive information is double- and sometimes triple-sourced. Gatekeeping serves an [...]
Publish2 has a post up about the rumored heart attack suffered by Steve Jobs and how CNN’s iReport and other citizen journalism outlets can be gamed and hurt the credibility of all:
When we first conceived of Publish2 as a platform exclusively for journalists, we worried that we would take a lot of flack for trying [...]
Technorati has released its State Of The Blogosphere 2008 report. Interesting to see is the map of US bloggers:
TechCrunch also talks about Technorati’s numbers, in the report and not:
Technorati has indexed a total of 133 million blogs since 2002. In terms of how many are active, 7.5 million blogs have added a new post during [...]
Over at Social Media Today, Matt Rhodes found a recent judgment that muddies the water on whether online defamation is slander or libel:
To date it has been thought that defamatory comments in online communities, bulletin boards and other chat on the internet are libel. They are published and a permanent record is kept. That’s why [...]
In an article concerning insurance and blogging, Christopher Boggs tosses out an interesting bit of information concerning lawsuits against bloggers:
Nearly 77 percent of ALL civil cases were found in favor of the blogger or saw the charges dropped by the plaintiff. And 92 percent of blog-related suits making it to trial end in blogger triumph [...]