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Posts on ‘April 18th, 2007’

Speaking in London, June 13

At the NMK Forum 07 I’ll do one of the keynote speeches. We should probably do a blogger dinner somewhere that week.

Blog Legal Dispute Settled

Over at Just Another Pretty Farce, Nashville blogger Katherine Coble reports settlement of what was shaping up to be a nasty legal disupte. You can find more about the situation in earlier postings on her blog, but the main point is that the threatening party agreed — after the intervention of a lawyer for the […]

Newspapers Should Open Archives

On another blog in early 2005 I posted an essay entitled, “Newspapers: Open Your Archives” — a plea to the newspaper industry to recognize the value it had hidden away behind pay-walls. I’m republishing it below, in part because I think the logic has held up even as newspapers have continued to hold back.