As I indicated Friday, I saw too many years of the legislative sausage-making process to really want to weigh in on the so-called “blogger bills” in the state House, particularly at this early stage. But the blogospheric lines seem so sharply drawn (with attendant personality conflicts) when it seems somewhat unnecessary. There’s no [...]
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Tim February 8th, 2010 | Tags: blogs, Internet, Law, South Dakota issues | Category: Blog/Internet, Law, State and local matters | 2 comments |
 Print This Post |  Email This PostOne of the problems with the interweb is often you at times see the ultimate layout only after the fact, especially if another site or server is populating the page with ads. At least that’s what I’m attributing this bit of ad placement to in a Slate blog post aboutHarper’s Magazine: Adding some irony to [...] Tim February 3rd, 2010 | Tags: blogs, Internet, technology | Category: Blog/Internet | Leave a comment |
Print This Post | Email This PostLast week, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent to the Senate floor a version of the Free Flow of Information Act that appears to include bloggers. Briefly stated, a shield law protects journalists from having to disclose sources to prosecutors unless certain requirements are met. One of the battles to date is who would be protected [...] Tim December 14th, 2009 | Tags: blogs, Law, shield law | Category: Blog/Internet, Law, Media | Leave a comment |
Print This Post | Email This PostIn the scheme of life, the universe and everything, it’s no big deal. But it does kind of piss me off so you’ll have to forgive this rant as I vent a bit. When I post a bunch of links in Weekend Edition or Friday Follies, I use “Via” to link to whomever led me [...] Tim November 19th, 2009 | Tags: blog, blogs, Internet, Rants | Category: Blog/Internet, Rants | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostI’m one of those who always rants about how early Christmas stuff shows up each year. So it may be somewhat hypocritical for me to join a new book blogger effort called Buy Books for the Holidays. But I think there’s excellent reasons for doing so. First, it’s something I’ve been doing for many [...] Tim November 5th, 2009 | Tags: blogs, Books | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostYou may recall I posted last month about how a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee amendment to legislation creating a federal “reporters privilege” appeared to require that a person work for the mainstream media, thereby excluding most bloggers. Now it appears the committee will do a near complete reversal. Sens. Charles Schumer (D.-N.Y.) and Arlen Specter [...] Tim October 31st, 2009 | Tags: blogs, journalism, Law | Category: Blog/Internet, Law | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostBoth houses of Congress are still considering legislation to create a federal “reporters privilege,” legislation that took different approaches for bloggers. At bottom, the difference was whether someone had to earn an income from blogging to be protected by the law. Now, an amendment in the Senate Judiciary Committee would not only abandon [...] Tim September 30th, 2009 | Tags: blogs, journalism, Law | Category: Blog/Internet, Law | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostNot a hat tip, but a full bow to Cory at Madville Times for speaking up and saying what many of us progressive/liberal/any stripe bloggers thought: what in the hell is it with “Today’s Babe” at Todd Epp’s blog? I know that, at least historically, Buddhism has been viewed as sexist but I [...] Tim June 9th, 2009 | Tags: blogs, sexism | Category: SD Blogosphere | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostIn what may be a commentary on the modern world, the state of the economy or both, a Wall Street Journal columnist believes more people make their living blogging than fighting fires. Based on a review of a variety of sources, Mark Penn concluded that of more than 20 million bloggers, 1.7 million are “profiting from [...] Tim April 21st, 2009 | Tags: blogs, Internet, technology | Category: Blog/Internet | One comment - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostI do a lot of book reviews, both here and for Blogcritics. I get some of the books free, whether from the publisher, author or a publicist. Evidently, that now may subject me to regulation by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC is considering changes in federal regulations regarding the “use of endorsements and [...] Tim April 3rd, 2009 | Tags: blog, blogs, Internet, Law, technology | Category: Blog/Internet, Law | Comments are closed |
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