Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Wrap up this legal stuff, already!

We're almost done. In the meantime, here's a transformative derivative work: It's A Wonderful Life in 30 seconds, reenacted by cartoon bunnies.

Bloggers need to treat lightly around libel also. I'll nutshell, since we're all weary here: don't talk unsustainable smack about identifiable people outside the realm of public interest. That means go easy on Uncle Wilfred, but be more frank about Britney, George W, Mick Jagger and so forth. Here's another area where epithets and nicknames prove useful: protecting the privacy of your family, friends and colleagues. Still, be careful that you haven't revealed so much about yourself that their identities are easy to infer, should they not want Internet infamy...

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