Blog Coalition Bear Flag League Weighs in on Apple Case
Blog Coalition Bear Flag League Weighs in on Apple Case
by , 4:00 PM EDT, April 18th, 2005
On Monday, the Bear Flag League, a coalition of 80 bloggers, filed a friend of the court brief in O'Grady vs. Superior Court, an appellate proceeding that came out of the case that Apple filed in December 2004 against several unnamed "Does." The anonymous defendants were presumably the source of product rumor articles published on the O'Grady's Powerpage, Think Secret and Apple Insider Web sites.
The brief takes the same position as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which believes that bloggers should be afforded the same protection as journalists. Enterprise Counsel Group's Jeffrey Lewis, one of the attorneys who filed the friend of the court brief, told The Mac Observer that "bloggers should have the same rights as Dan Rather and other mainstream journalists." Lewis' blog is part of the Bear Flag League.
Lewis noted, however, that not all bloggers fall under this protection. "You have to look at what the bloggers are doing," he said. "There's a world of difference when you're talking about ten-year-old girls writing diaries and a site that gathers news with the intent to disseminate it to the public." Lewis said that while such distinctions should be made on a case-by-case basis, this particular case should give the reporters for the three Web sites the same protection as their print, TV and radio counterparts.
Observer Comments
Maybe by computer neophytes and those that loved seeing Keanu in the "Matrixes" (i.e. those that didn't pay attention in English class because they are too lazy). Is saying the "we" part of the the word just too much work? Does typing the "we" key sequence on a standard QWERTY keyboard cause carpal tunnel? If everyone else thinks it is "accepted in polite societly" to stand outside in a lightning storm because they are too lazy to go inside, does that mean you should stay outside too?
It is the people that use the technology who create the acronyms, the jargon, that eventually becomes a commonly used word.
Chances are you will not be hit by lightning, but you have pretty good shot at giving yourself a stroke stressing out over a word.
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Maybe by computer neophytes and those that loved seeing Keanu in the "Matrixes" (i.e. those that didn't pay attention in English class because they are too lazy). Is saying the "we" part of the the word just too much work? Does typing the "we" key sequence on a standard QWERTY keyboard cause carpal tunnel? If everyone else thinks it is "accepted in polite societly" to stand outside in a lightning storm because they are too lazy to go inside, does that mean you should stay outside too?
I guess I've been too busy creating the technology for the last 17 years be be considered a "user", thus I must not really understand computer jargon.
However, I think I have an equal chance of getting struck by lightning if I stand outside in a storm as I do of getting a stroke from repeatedly having to explain to newbies what a blog is, when the term weblog is pretty self-explanitory.
While on the subject, is "ain't" acceptable English yet? It's pretty commonly used. I'd guess it's probably been used in conversational English a lot more than "blog". A previous post stated blog is an accepted word but www.webster.com doesn't seem to have a definition for it. Webster will define "ain't", and tell you not to use it, but will not define "blog" (well, they might if you give them a credit card number). Hmmmmm...
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