The EFF has published a legal guide for bloggers.Freedom of speech is the foundation of a functioning democracy, and Internet bullies shouldn’t use the law to stifle legitimate free expression. That’s why EFF created this guide, compiling a number of F…
If you’ve ever blogged about politics in the US, this might be of some interest to you. The Federal Election Commission is considering rules (Proposed Rules PDF) that would apply federal campaign finance regulations to online speech. The FEC says it wa…
My former neighborhood of Potrero Hill in San Francisco, CA has its own blog. It’s a really nice one too. There’s a post about a purse snatching on 20th and Connecticut, another about a free outdoor showing of Spaceballs, and even on-the-street updates…
Steven Johnson was a guest on last night’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” to talk about his book Everything Bad Is Good For You. It was something he was really looking forward to and it didn’t disappoint. Steven wrote about it in his blog: Behind Th…
There was a blogging panel at this year’s Book Expo America. I kinda wish I had remembered BEA earlier and at least made an attempt to go. There are thousands of exhibits, hundreds of authors, conference sessions, parties, latest titles across genres, …
I just discovered something lame. You can only insert hyperlinks from your Internet Explorer Favorites or History when you are composing a rich-text email with Entourage. What if you don’t use Internet Explorer? What if you haven’t already visited the …
Gavin Bate who has been blogging while climbing Everest on a solo bid in aid of Moving Mountains children’s charity (we posted about him here) has summitted Everest! He even left an Audioblogger message from near the top.As a deflated Gavin prepared to…
His name is Kai Chang and he’s an autoblogger user. “You have a life. AutoBlogger helps you live it.” Funny.
The New York Times ran a good article about this cool blog project: Bless Me, Blog, for I’ve Sinned.One online confessional, though, breaks the mold. At PostSecret, found at postsecret.blogspot.com, the confessions are consistently engaging, original …
Peter Chianca did too much next-blogging and it nearly caused him to expire. If you don’t believe me, check out the title of his latest article: Musings on blogs go from bad to verse. That’s almost as bad as Who Let The Blogs Out? Oh, and here’s his bl…
Q: What do you do if you’re a high school student and the administration shuts down your journalism program and school paper? A: Speaking Underground.We believe students’ rights to exercise responsible free speech should be encouraged and not stifled. …
So that Bay Area Blogger Meetup arranged by KRON4-TV that we posted about over the weekend is the real deal. We recieved an email from the Online News Editor: You thought it was a hoax but it’s the real deal… the KRON4-TV Bay Area Blogger Meet-Up….
This chump has unraveled the secret of getting good distance when sliding in your socks and he’s using his blog to tell us all about it.The actual reason you can slide further is much more complicated. What these people forget when they’re arguing that…
Update: It is the Nike iD Blog Contest. Still, “information superhighway?” I thought we were using words like “ecosystem” and “sphere” these days. Anyway, the Dunk Low Parque ID customized by FatLace appears to be in the lead.Am I crazy or did Nike hav…
I just got this evite along with 278 other Bay Area bloggers. Not sure if it’s a real deal or not—are there such things as party spammers yet? Get a whole bunch of folks to show up somewhere and then try to sell them some junk? Anyway, I’ve been to o…