edited by: Vivian Paige,
Virginia Editor
Key takeaway from the legal session:
If a commenter says something bad on your blog, you are not legally responsible for it. However if you receive a court order demanding the IP information about that commenter, you have to provide that info to the authorities.
Seems reasonable to me, so note to [...]
Rep. Rob Wittman discussing a variety of Internet related issues.
Topics include:
- increasing access to broadband
-new USF fees proposed for voice over IP (Boucher telecom bill)
-Republican new media caucus – this is pretty cool, not so much in the “GOP is now cutting-edge” sense but at least they have [...]
And the Youtube clip is titled "CROWD BOOS Palin"Media panel, discussing opinion vs reporting, and “news judgments,” including what goes on their news outlets and what goes on their blogs.
Left to right: Ryan Nobles of NBC 12, Julian Walker of Virginian-Pilot, Anita Kumar of Washington Post, Kimball Payne of Daily Press and Shad Plank. [...]
Notice for Webb and Warner
We filled the back room of Shoney's and then some. 
The SWAC Conservative Round TableHow cool. Vivian Paige just showed me the way to posting to wordpress from my blackberry. Hope it works. If it does next step is a photo.
First discussion of the day is “blogging ethics” so needless to say I’m basically on recess time. But overall it seems like it [...]
The typical American hospital charges between $20,000 and $100,000 to perform open-heart surgery. The 1,000-bed Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital in Bangalore, India, charges $2,000 on average -- and, arguably, provides better quality outcomes. Oh wait, this is Washington, they don’t call it bribery, they call it “leverage”:
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said Friday night that she’s “leaning towards” voting to start debate on the health care bill – which would leave Democrats just a single vote shy of clearing a critical test for [...]
Daily Progress managing editor (and noted blog critic), McGregor McCance, has resorted to online censorship in order to shield from criticism the faltering newspaper’s marginal reputation.
Progress “news” writer Brian McNeill, often biased and inaccurate in his reporting penned a story for the November 20, 2009 edition [...]
As he stood atop the Great Wall, amiring its "majesty":
There are those we become accustomed to ignoring.
I am of the opinion that this photograph, released by the North Korean news agency and passed on without comment by the uncritical lunkheads at Reuters, is a complete fabrication.
Look at the difference in perspective between the light brown foreground and the dark brown background, where the cattle [...]
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