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Currently ReadingRecently Read | Both 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 the Senate’s [...]            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 wasn’t aware [...] 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 [...] 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 testimonials [...] Tim April 3rd, 2009 | Tags: blog, blogs, Internet, Law, technology | Category: Blog/Internet, Law | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostDavid Newquist provides a very interesting perspective on my post about how proposals for a federal shield law might apply to bloggers. Here’s an excerpt with which I fully agree but which also is not only a small slice of David’s analysis: However, most blogs are not written to provide reliable information. They are written [...] Tim February 26th, 2009 | Tags: blogs | Category: Blog/Internet | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostThe question of whether bloggers are journalists is raised indirectly by differences in legislation introduced this month in the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate to provide certain legal protections to journalists. Both bills call themselves the Free Flow of Information Act and seek to create a federal “shield law.” Broadly speaking, shield laws protect [...] Tim February 24th, 2009 | Tags: blogs, Law | Category: Blog/Internet, Law | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostBob Schwartz, the South Dakota blogger formerly known as South Dakota Moderate and who then moved his blog to Politics and Hypocrisy, has made a new move. It’s a move I congratulate him on as it means he may have joined my camp (to the extent we disgusted and disaffected have a camp). Here’s what [...] Tim October 13th, 2008 | Tags: blogs | Category: SD Blogosphere | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostSo the Democratic National Committee has announced the bloggers from each state who will get floor credentials to cover this summer’s Democratic National Convention. And the pick from South Dakota: Badlands Blue. Guess that shows what the DNC thinks of South Dakota bloggers or South Dakota. As noted a while ago, Badlands Blue was actually [...] Tim May 14th, 2008 | Tags: blogs, Politics | Category: Politics, SD Blogosphere | 9 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostThe hectic nature of the last couple weeks combined with the frigid temperatures to turn my ambition to molasses. PP eliminated any doubt of that with a post last night that echoed exactly what I thought but was too lazy to research and write a post about. Simply summarized, it seems Argus Exec Editor Randell [...] Tim February 21st, 2008 | Tags: blogs, local media, Media | Category: Blog/Internet, Media | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostIt was just less than three years ago that I decided to move the focus of this blog away from politics and the like to “things that actually bring pleasure, meaning and nuance to life.” This has covered a variety of things over those three years but mostly books and reading. While it may not [...] Tim January 23rd, 2008 | Tags: blogs | Category: Blog/Internet | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This Post |         The views expressed here are mine and mine alone. I do not speak for my law partners, our associates, staff and clients or my family and friends. Not only should any opinions here not be attributed to them, chances are they probably don't agree with me.  | ||
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