Why some folks shouldn’t have access to computers
May 4th, 2009Not safe for work from the founder of RedState.
Blogs sponsor VA gov debate
April 23rd, 2009All the lame that’s fit to intimidate
April 22nd, 2009That headline makes no sense, but neither does The New York Times’ decision to make a food blog remove the slogan “All the news that’s fit to eat.”
CNN uses copyright to silence blogger critics
April 19th, 2009As if anyone needed yet another reason that the fair use exception to copyright is critical to the blogosphere. Check this out. CNN is trying to keep footage of its jerk reporter arguing with Tea Party protestors instead of covering them.
BNN sends record number of visitors to blogs
April 18th, 2009If you check out the top of the BNN home page, you’ll see a weekly tally of the number of click thrus from a BNN rss feed, widget or web page to the bloggers we cover. Towards the beginning of the year, it was running at about 1.1 million a month. As of this week, we’ve hit a rate of about 1.5 million a month.
Gay marriage ruling in Iowa
April 3rd, 2009You can check the Iowa blogosphere here.
And the state of the IA tweeterverse here:
Post’s The Fix trying to track the best state political blogs
April 2nd, 2009You might want to wander by and submit your names. I noticed dozens of good blogs tracked by BNN that haven’t been mentioned yet.
Tiny Maryland town’s mayor makes Drudge by bashing local blogs
March 16th, 2009And the newspaper leaves the name of this dastardly blog unknown to its readers. I bet I know which blog she means.
I don’t follow BNN’s DelMarVa site every day, but of all our sections this is the one that creates more sparks and more angry email to me than any other. SBYNews is almost always at the center of it. SBYNews has even spawned one of the most vicious anti-blogs I’ve seen in a good while.
Italian government goes after blogs
March 12th, 2009You’d think this was satire or maybe something thought up by the KGB. Nope.
Can Wisconsin bloggers write about High School sports?
March 5th, 2009The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association seems to think it can block the state’s newspapers from covering post-season play unless the newspapers pay the athletic association.
The most interesting bit is this: “The WIAA is asking a Portage County judge to rule that the organization has the right to “control the transmission, Internet stream, photo, image, film, videotape, audiotape, writing, drawing or other depiction or description” of high school games.”
The WIAA is claiming that even writing about the game violates their intellectual property rights. How crazy is that? And since newspapers and bloggers depend on the same First Amendment protections to cover whatever the newspaper or blogger decides is “news,” if the newspapers lose this fight, then bloggers may find themselves banned from writing about local high school sports.
Somebody needs to kick these WIAA folks in the rear. The WIAA would not exist without the participation and dues of public schools. No public schools — no WIAA. In fact, the majority of the leadership of the WIAA is made up of public school employees along with a representative of the state school boards.
In effect, what you have here is a bunch of local governments, declaring themselves an independent corporation and then suing newspapers to stop them from covering the activities sponsored by the local governments. On what planet does that make sense?
Is this going on in other states?
