Hm.:

NEW YORK (CNN) — A model who was slammed with derogatory terms by an anonymous blogger has the right to learn the identity of her online heckler, a judge ruled.
In August 2008, a user of Blogger.com, Google’s blogging service, created “Skanks in NYC,” a site that assailed Liskula Cohen, 37, a Canadian-born onetime cover girl […]

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Folks applying for a job with the city in Bozeman, Montana, need to fork over more than just a resume:
The Rocky Mountain city instructs all job applicants to divulge their usernames and passwords for “any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.”
“Before we […]

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And so, after a week in sunny Orlando, Fla., where the temperature reached 92 or above every single day and we went seven full days without rain, we return to the April of our discontent here in Lancaster County, where I hear it rained all last week (but of course) and the temperature is expected […]

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Update today on the death of Robert Potter, known ’round these parts as Cyberscribbler. His wife, Tonya Lynese Potter, 41, has been charged with aggravated assault, and could face up to 20 years in prison. She’s in jail on $250,000 bond.
It’s just a tragedy all the way around; there are three young boys now without […]

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Hm. Via Sullivan, the “broken windows” theory as it applies to the Internet:
Much of the tone of discourse online is governed by the level of moderation and to what extent people are encouraged to “own” their words. When forums, message boards, and blog comment threads with more than a handful of participants are unmoderated, bad […]

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Interesting bit over at Politico, maybe yet more signs that the wind has shifted:
“It’s clear to us that Barack Obama has won the Drudge Primary, and it’s one of the most important primaries in this process,” conceded a senior aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who also acknowledged that Drudge’s treatment of Obama could make the Illinois […]

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Era will sell a few newspapers today with this story, front and center. And it’s a good story, about how “dozens” of area women are advertising “erotic services” on Craigslist, which even we here in Lancaster County can now use.
A good story and an amusing one, because Jack Brubaker had to call a few of […]

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