http://blogbook.org/ A Guide to Legal Blogging en-us admin@blogbook.org 2006-09-24T12:18:01-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000362.html A couple of years back, when we started The Blogbook, there were very few legal blogs. Now of course there are thousands, including blogs from big firm lawyers as well as solos. Our original intention for this blog was to... 362@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-09-01T14:31:31-08:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000323.html This is my final Blogbook post, and it seems appropriate to conclude with some insights and observations about the periods of fatigue that all bloggers inevitably experience. There are may ways to cope with blog burnout. Here are a few... 323@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-09-01T13:48:57-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000360.html Two big Internet law decisions, affecting copyright and trademark law, were launched into the legal stratosphere yesterday: the U.S. Supreme Court’s MGM v. Grokster decision and the Second Circuit’s 1-800 Contacts v. WhenU.com decision. P2P The Grokster decision stole the... 360@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-06-28T10:18:42-08:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000359.html The Online Coalition is authoring a letter to the Federal Election Commission in response to the FEC's proposed rulemaking that would impact blogging and other Internet communications. Today is the final day to join in support of the comments. Before... 359@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-06-03T13:40:57-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000358.html The Third Anniversary issue of FindLaw's Modern Practice is now available. This month's article topics include: The Future of Infringement, Legality of Zabasearch, A Shrinking Public Domain, Employer Liability for Workplace Identity Theft, and a retrospective of ten-year old Legal... 358@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-06-01T14:40:36-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000357.html Now residing in the "Unusual Case Names" file is this recent sentencing opinion from the Ninth Circuit. If you enjoy double entendre, why not take the Case Name Challenge?... 357@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2005-05-27T09:15:51-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000356.html Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division, John C. Richter just announced that members of the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement executed 10 search warrants across the country "against leading members of a technologically sophisticated P2P network... 356@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-05-25T12:57:38-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000355.html In Luck's Music Library, Inc. and Moviecraft, Inc. v. Alberto Gonzales, the D.C. Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling in favor of the U.S. Attorney General on the constitutionality of § 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), codified... 355@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2005-05-24T15:29:09-08:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000354.html Legal Affairs editor Lincoln Caplan's article on Blawgs discusses the differences between general and legal weblogs. The article opens by mentioning the Supreme Court's citation of Douglas Berman's Sentencing Law and Policy Blog. It's exciting, in part, because judicial citation... 354@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-05-19T08:29:59-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000353.html New York and Michigan wine connoisseurs will be ecstatic to hear about today's Supreme Court news. In Granholm v. Heald, the Supreme Court of the United States invalidated two state laws that regulate the sale of wine from out-of-state wineries... 353@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2005-05-16T12:42:39-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000352.html In a follow-up to the post on InternetMovies.com and the MPAA, the U.S. Supreme court has recently denied certiorari in Rossi v. MPAA, a DMCA case last heard by the Ninth Circuit in December 2004. According to this Andrews' article,... 352@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2005-05-16T09:53:10-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000351.html Today, in American Library Association, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit blocked the FCC's "Braodcast Flag" rules. The controversial rules required digital television receivers (DTVs) to embed code into all transmitted... 351@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2005-05-06T12:02:34-08:00 http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000350.html Why are there so many uphappy lawyers? This article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette mulls over the alarming rate of depressed lawyers leaving the profession -- 40,000 per year. That's roughly equal to the number of new attorneys entering each year.... 350@http://blogbook.org/ethics/ 2005-05-06T10:31:31-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000349.html The US Copyright Office received over 700 submissions in response to its Notice of Inquiry that asked whether Congress should do anything about the "orphan works problem." Broadly speaking, Orphan works are any copyrighted works where the rights holder is... 349@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-05-04T14:52:48-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000348.html Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit published a trademark decision in Surfvivor Media, Inc. v. Survivor Productions. Very briefly, a surf & clothing company plaintiff, sued Survivor the TV show for infringement. This appellate decision affirmed... 348@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2005-05-04T12:39:31-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000347.html The May edition of FindLaw's Modern Practice has been posted. The new issue's focus on small technology with big applications features articles on nanotechnology, biotech, micropublishing and global taxonomy.... 347@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-05-02T12:30:46-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000346.html I've been hearing a lot about podcasting lately, so I stopped by Kevin Heller and Evan Schaeffer's new site Blawgcast.com to find out what happens when lawyers, digital audio and RSS collide. First, I'm happy Heller and Schaeffer didn't incorporate... 346@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-04-27T08:30:19-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000345.html Dennis Kennedy has a lot going on these days -- group blogging, consulting, editing, even acting! And he still has bandwidth to practice law. DK's multi-faceted efforts exemplify the diverse talents required of today's technology lawyer. Dennis is a pioneer... 345@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-04-25T08:51:36-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000343.html This week, Microsoft filed four new lawsuits against alleged spammers, brining their total anti spam suits to 101. A suit against OPTIN GLOBAL, alleging state and federal violations, follows on the heels of last week's action filed by the FTC... 343@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-04-21T12:23:56-08:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000342.html Background The Bear Flag League, a coalition of 80 bloggers with California connections, filed an Application To File An Amicus Curiae And Proposed Amicus Brief with the California Sixth District Court of Appeal in O'Grady v. Superior Court, the appellate... 342@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-04-19T17:31:14-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000341.html According to this AP article, Press Association, the organization that runs the Associated Press, will be raising the prices for online use of its content. Although PA has always charged for online use of AP wire news, some companies that... 341@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-04-18T17:15:30-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000340.html Popandpolitics.com is hosting their first mash up with Lawrence Lessig and DJ Spooky on May 3, 2005 in San Francisco. Although it sounds as if Larry will be toasting over Spooky's mix, the actual format will be a conversation on... 340@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-04-18T08:35:32-08:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000337.html The Blawg Review, a "Carnival of the Blawgs and Law Blog Reviews by Legal Bloggers," has recently launched. Evan Schaeffer hosts the first edition. This hilarious quote from Judge Posner hangs on the mantle: Welcome to a world where inexperienced... 337@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-04-14T08:40:17-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000336.html The Florida Attorney General, with the assistance of Microsoft, obtained a temporary injunction against two men accused of sending email in violation of state and federal anti-spam laws. The complaint alleges the Florida men sent over 65,000 commercial emails, which... 336@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-04-12T12:10:10-08:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000335.html Newsday reports: NYAG Eliot Spitzer came under fire when a sponsored link to his gubernatorial campaign site appered after Google users searched on "AIG." American International Group (AIG) is involved in Spitzer's ongoing investigation of insurance industry practices in New... 335@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-04-11T08:19:10-08:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000334.html An article by Rick Hasen (Loyola Law School professor and Election Law blogger) entitled "The Ripple Effects of the FEC's Rules on Political Blogging: Why They Will End Up Undermining Limits on Corporation and Union Campaign Finance Activities," appears at... 334@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-04-06T08:22:52-08:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000333.html As reported in Personal Democracy Forum, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will soon vote on city ordinance concerning the "Disclosure and Filing Requirements for Electioneering Communications." As the ordinace is broadly focused on communications sponsored by political candidates, there... 333@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-04-04T08:23:10-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000332.html Tuesday morning: up by 5:00am, to Capitol Hill by 5:30, and parked by 5:45. I arrived at the steps of the Supreme Court by 6:00am and found my spot in line-about a hundred or so people lingered before me. I... 332@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-04-01T13:05:56-08:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000331.html As reported in this Wired News article, on March 23, the Federal Election Committee issued a "Draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Internet Communications." The proposals are intended to "ensure that political committees properly finance and disclose their Internet communications,... 331@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-04-01T10:22:56-08:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000330.html Weekly roundup of relevant legal blogging links from a once-and-future editor David Maizenberg: BlawgConnect.2005 - Chicago. "the largest collection of law bloggers assembled to date under one roof" http://www.inter-alia.net... Sarah Kellogg's "Do You Blog?" the cover story from the DC... 330@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-03-31T11:34:40-08:00 http://blogbook.org/cite/archives/000329.html Outragedmoderates.org, a political blog edited by St. John's law student Thad Anderson, was cited in two amicus briefs submitted to SCOTUS in the MGM v. Grokster case. The first amicus brief, submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union cites Anderson's... 329@http://blogbook.org/cite/ 2005-03-24T06:02:47-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000328.html That's the billion dollar question in front of the Supreme Court of the United States in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. on Tuesday, March 29, 2005. The "Betamax Rule," taken from the Supreme Court case Sony Corp. v. Universal... 328@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-03-23T06:24:55-08:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000326.html Another item from the intersection of blogs and legal issues: Wall Street stock blogs, which according to Corante are edited by former analysts who dispense "daily advice on what companies are hot..." Given the heightened enforcement environment in the securities... 326@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-03-17T09:22:43-08:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000325.html Larry Bodine wrote in wondering if we knew how many legal blogs are in existence. It's an interesting question that is wide open to speculation. I don't think anyone can say for certain without conducting an extensive blawg census, but... 325@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-03-16T11:11:46-08:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000324.html From the More Soft Money Hard Law web updates, this piece by Bob Bauer touches on the pending "gloom and doom" FEC regulation of the Internet. Note the Paid Bloggers section, which is now officially defined by the Commission as... 324@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-03-16T09:59:25-08:00 http://blogbook.org/on_point/archives/000322.html My First Mine has an interesting post about a blogger who is quitting his day job. "If blogging is business, pay me Not to Blog." - Anon.... 322@http://blogbook.org/on_point/ 2005-03-03T11:45:39-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000319.html I don't know what they put in the water in those MLS programs but can we please mass-produce it? Or at least enough for the water supply in Congress? The ARL (Association of Research Librarians) has put out a set... 319@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-02-01T10:41:18-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000315.html "Fade into nightmare," reads the litigation webpage of Peter Hall, an independent filmmaker who stars as the plaintiff in the Second Circuit's Hall v. Earthlink. It's an appropriate cinematic metaphor, as the pages of the Judge Pooler's decision evoke Kafkaesque... 315@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2005-01-26T14:20:21-08:00 http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/archives/000318.html http://img195.exs.cx/img195/9146/mostefficientkeyboard0sy.jpg... 318@http://blogbook.org/tech_ip/ 2005-01-26T12:00:34-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000309.html The Librarian of Congress successfully defended his webcaster royalty rates from attack on three separate fronts in Beethoven.com v. Librarian of Congress. Beethoven reads like an accounting audit report, as it deals with the financial calculus employed by the Copyright... 309@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2005-01-14T14:20:32-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000308.html In the Ninth Circuit's Knievel v. ESPN, motorcycle stunt legend Evel Knievel and his wife Krystal sued the sports network for defamation. The Knievels alleged they were defamed when EXPN.com posted a picture of Krystal, Evel and another woman, bearing... 308@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2005-01-04T15:40:47-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000307.html Die hard fans of The Sopranos will surely enjoy Baer v. Chase, a dispute in the Third Circuit between David Chase, creator of the hit series, and Robert Baer, an attorney who purportedly contributed ideas to Chase during the show's... 307@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2004-12-22T11:07:37-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000303.html Big Easy rap artists Juvenile and D.J. Jubilee did battle in the Fifth Circuit's Positive Black Talk Inc. v. Cash Money Records Inc., over two songs that both "include the poetic four-word phrase 'back that ass up.'" According to PBT's... 303@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2004-12-20T11:22:37-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000294.html In Bassiouni v. Central Intelligence Agency, the venerable Judges Easterbrook, Posner and Sykes of the Seventh Circuit deftly smothered a law professor's appeal that arose out of his request for documents from the CIA. Some Background: In 1983, Mahmoud Cherif... 294@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2004-12-08T11:55:16-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000287.html In Michael Rossi v. Motion Picture Association of America, the Ninth Circuit disposed of a movie website's appeal against the MPAA. The underlying suit brought by Rossi (dba InternetMovies.com) claimed 1) tortious interference with contractual relations, 2) libel, 3) intentional... 287@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2004-12-01T12:14:26-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000251.html In Creative Computing v. GetLoaded.Com, the Ninth Circuit heard arguments from two online "load-matching" service companies. The suit brought by Creative Computing (dba, Truckstop.com) alleged trade dress and copyright infringement claims as well as violations of the Computer Fraud &... 251@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2004-10-15T13:06:13-08:00 http://blogbook.org/appellate/archives/000231.html In Hughes v. Hughes, film makers Albert and Allen Hughes were sued by their father, Albert Sr., for stating that their "dad's a pimp." The comment was made during an interview, conducted by the elegant Veronica Webb, that was later... 231@http://blogbook.org/appellate/ 2004-09-28T19:38:09-08:00 http://blogbook.org/cite/archives/000229.html Eugene Volokh has created an analytical framework to understand every coffeehouse lawyer's favorite fall back argument: the "slippery slope." No longer will "but it's a slippery slope!" suffice to end the debate and turn the subject to more profitable ones... 229@http://blogbook.org/cite/ 2004-09-24T20:00:55-08:00 http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000209.html You can read the story here.... 209@http://blogbook.org/ethics/ 2004-08-30T05:38:28-08:00 http://blogbook.org/cite/archives/000203.html Before seeking a declaratory judgment that "This Land" does not infringe Guthrie's original copyrighted work, Jib Jab responded less formally to Ludlow Music. In a letter, Jib Jab noted, "It is enough that the parody here is readily and objectively... 203@http://blogbook.org/cite/ 2004-08-23T10:13:09-08:00 http://blogbook.org/style/archives/000150.html Do you have a good vocabulary? Prove it, smarty. Test your knowledge against the vocab champ, Judge Selya of the First Circuit. The following word list was gathered from his recent decisions. How many can you define? Algid Decurtate Dehors... 150@http://blogbook.org/style/ 2004-05-13T11:08:44-08:00 http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000140.html Sometimes I forget that legal blogs occupy only a very small corner of the greater blogverse. There's some entertaining stuff going on out there, like this "Hot Abercrombie Chick for President" thing. Long story short: There's considerable debate over whether... 140@http://blogbook.org/ethics/ 2004-04-23T11:03:56-08:00 http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000128.html Clayton Cramer ruminates on the question.... 128@http://blogbook.org/ethics/ 2004-03-29T14:56:53-08:00 http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000112.html More on Linux/Microsoft/SCO/lawsuits (see my "Yee-Haw!" post, below, for a basic intro to this byzantine tech business absurdity): I hope this nasty scheme was cooked up in the humid, Diet Coke fueled back rooms of the Redmond campus, rather than... 112@http://blogbook.org/ethics/ 2004-03-10T08:26:46-08:00 http://blogbook.org/cite/archives/000111.html Dave Winer, the creator of RSS, has a sensible proposal. I've posted this entry to the "Citations" category because I believe that figuring out the standards/formats issues is the first and perhaps most crucial step in the universalization of the... 111@http://blogbook.org/cite/ 2004-03-09T09:28:53-08:00 http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000110.html Dennis Kennedy doing his best to help lawyers avoid further embarassing metadata situations. In the future, if a client sues a firm over a metadata goof, what do you think the firm's malpractice carrier will say? Perhaps some firms might... 110@http://blogbook.org/ethics/ 2004-03-08T09:56:18-08:00 http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000108.html Is it ethical to manufacture comments to one's blog? My guess is that the answer depends on the form and degree of manufacture that occurs. On the "innocent" end of the spectrum, asking people to read and contribute to your... 108@http://blogbook.org/ethics/ 2004-03-05T11:43:21-08:00 http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000106.html Tech Law Adviser points to Aaron (RSS 1.0 co-author) Swartz's call for lawyers with an interest in such things to "sue for freedom". First in his list of intellectual property windmills to tilt at is a suit for the protection... 106@http://blogbook.org/ethics/ 2004-03-04T15:45:24-08:00 http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000103.html As SCO keeps finding new companies to sue, I thought it might be helpful to link to this handy illustration of the litigation landscape that uses - for ease of understanding - the cast of Dukes of Hazzard. Boy, if... 103@http://blogbook.org/ethics/ 2004-03-03T07:33:55-08:00 http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000098.html Here's a neat Slate piece revealing that we have infamous Hollywood screenwriter and fabulist Joe Eszterhas to thank for the SCOTUS' seminal 1974 ruling in Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing. Fast forward to 2004, blogs, RSS feeds, aggregators, etc. It's... 98@http://blogbook.org/ethics/ 2004-02-27T12:35:12-08:00 http://blogbook.org/cite/archives/000095.html Or, rather, Eugene Volokh's blog citing law review articles that cite Eugene Volokh's blog.... 95@http://blogbook.org/cite/ 2004-02-26T14:01:50-08:00 http://blogbook.org/cite/archives/000077.html The Case: Suboh v. Borgioli, No. 00-10396 The Court: United States District Court, District Of Massachusetts The Judge: Chief Judge William G. Young The Blog: Volokh Conspiracy As reported in Robert Ambrogi's LawSites, the first direct quote from a blog... 77@http://blogbook.org/cite/ 2004-01-26T18:05:56-08:00 http://blogbook.org/style/archives/000074.html Joi Ito made a post a few days ago about writing style and named his favorite resource, The Chicago Manual of Style. He also lists some web resources, and remarks that "[p]oor writing style, like bad manners, makes someone appear... 74@http://blogbook.org/style/ 2004-01-21T08:20:50-08:00 http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000072.html A recent post on Blogcritics.com outlines a basic ethical ruleset for bloggers to adhere to. Its stated purpose is to "promote civility and intellectual honesty in the blogosphere." The author feels that "both civility and intellectual honesty are two necessities... 72@http://blogbook.org/ethics/ 2004-01-12T08:46:01-08:00 http://blogbook.org/style/archives/000067.html A short editorial battle ensued the other day. I corrected a couple of typos in my esteemed colleague's article, including one elective typo: the first letter "e" in the word judg(e)ment. It had been included, and I endeavored to omit... 67@http://blogbook.org/style/ 2003-12-31T09:43:15-08:00 http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000052.html [reposted excerpts from a 12/11/03 post on Airblogger.com regarding the Supreme Court's decision in McConnell v. Federal Election Commission] Regardless of your position on the rightness or wrongness of the BCRA or the Supreme Court's decision upholding even its most... 52@http://blogbook.org/ethics/ 2003-12-11T19:13:34-08:00 http://blogbook.org/style/archives/000048.html Internet content is largely considered ephemeral, or at least disposable. No matter the force of words: it is the medium that largely preserves the value of the content - should there be any value. Even the most apropos arrangement of... 48@http://blogbook.org/style/ 2003-12-11T18:13:04-08:00 http://blogbook.org/cite/archives/000043.html The recent dissenting opinion in Batzel v. Smith, Cremers has provided some valuable and practical lessons in blog citation. As Batzel is perhaps the first federal appellate case to actually cite to blogs, it underscores the need to address formal... 43@http://blogbook.org/cite/ 2003-12-08T14:28:17-08:00 http://blogbook.org/cite/archives/000040.html There are some simple ways to make footnotes in your web page or blog post that allow for easy user navigation and super-swell formatting. Here, we are going to use two types of tag: the internal anchor tag, and... 40@http://blogbook.org/cite/ 2003-12-04T09:30:34-08:00 http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000038.html Carolyn of MyShingle had a great comment on my prior post/hypothetical that I felt deserved its own post: The problem with legal ethics questions such as the one you've posed is that each state has its own hyper-technical definitions of... 38@http://blogbook.org/ethics/ 2003-12-01T14:34:30-08:00 http://blogbook.org/cite/archives/000037.html In this post, May It Please The Court brings up many good points about citing unpublished opinions. Unpublished opinions do not have the same precedential value as published opinions, obviously, but they continue to be cited and relied upon. When... 37@http://blogbook.org/cite/ 2003-11-28T09:24:28-08:00 http://blogbook.org/style/archives/000034.html While instant messaging users are accustomed to more acronyms than they can probably keep track of, a helpful qualifying phrase for casual law bloggers who are not members of any state bar is "I am not a lawyer", or "IANAL".... 34@http://blogbook.org/style/ 2003-11-25T15:57:05-08:00 http://blogbook.org/style/archives/000033.html While you can probably get a away with some Latin, the excessive use of this old tounge is bound to turn off most non-lawyer and lawyer readers alike. Take the time to decipher Latin phrases for your readers. Here are... 33@http://blogbook.org/style/ 2003-11-25T14:49:06-08:00 http://blogbook.org/style/archives/000032.html There's nothing wrong with using legal language in a legal blog. Legal Terms like verdict, conviction, attorney, litigation, liability, plaintiff, defendant, perjury, legislation, and infringement are all words that reside in the collective usage. Once you move beyond the usual... 32@http://blogbook.org/style/ 2003-11-25T14:47:51-08:00 http://blogbook.org/style/archives/000031.html If someone were to come up with a Manual of Style for general blogs, the section on Word Choice would probably be quite short: "Say whatever's on your mind, Fitzgerald." However, we (I) propose that Legal Blogs should be held... 31@http://blogbook.org/style/ 2003-11-25T14:21:53-08:00 http://blogbook.org/style/archives/000030.html What are your thoughts on de-publishing? De-publishing is removing posts from your site after they've been proven wrong, foolish or defamatory. My $.02: I think de-publishing is acceptable when it's done for liability purposes. It's also ok if you've flamed... 30@http://blogbook.org/style/ 2003-11-25T14:12:19-08:00 http://blogbook.org/cite/archives/000028.html i) The more precisely you quote the blog, the more detailed/precise your attribution should be. ii) As the need to verify the attribution rises, the more detailed/precise your attribution should be. Note: because many blogs and online pages are transitory... 28@http://blogbook.org/cite/ 2003-11-25T11:20:45-08:00 http://blogbook.org/cite/archives/000027.html Determining which type of blog attribution to use depends on: 1) the context; and 2) medium that you're using. Context can range from informal to formal, silly to serious. Additionally, determining the correct method of attribution depends what you want... 27@http://blogbook.org/cite/ 2003-11-25T11:20:25-08:00 http://blogbook.org/cite/archives/000026.html There are lots of ways to credit a blog or online posting. Attribution ranges from an informal mention to a formal citation. Some of the means of attribution: Hypertext link to the page; A mention of the URL (non-clickable); A... 26@http://blogbook.org/cite/ 2003-11-25T11:20:05-08:00 http://blogbook.org/cite/archives/000025.html There's no question that lawyers, judges, journalists, students and researchers will at some point need to cite a blog or other online information. Given the formal nature of legal citation, it is important to create some standard ways that this... 25@http://blogbook.org/cite/ 2003-11-25T11:19:43-08:00 http://blogbook.org/ethics/archives/000016.html Okay, this is not really a legal blog issue, but it touches on law, blogs and undercover marketing. Here's the hypothetical: a class action lawyer, say someone specializing in tobacco suits, hires a writer to start a blog called "Lung... 16@http://blogbook.org/ethics/ 2003-11-09T11:52:43-08:00