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Law News Network Kellstrom Demands Yahoo! Name Anonymous Online Critics
"Anonymous postings critical of Kellstrom Industries Inc. on an online investor forum have earned the wrath of the Sunrise, Fla., company.

Kellstrom, in the aircraft and engine sales and leasing business, last week sued Yahoo! Inc. to have the Internet portal reveal the identities of two individuals who Kellstrom claims have left defamatory statements on a Yahoo message board."

BBC News Demon settles net libel case
"Laurence Godfrey will be paid �15,000 plus legal costs - which could top �200,000 - by Demon Internet after allegedly defamatory postings about him appeared in newsgroups.

Nick Arnold, an information technology litigator from Tarlow Lyons, told BBC Breakfast News: "This will be the benchmark for all future cases." He said it raised the issue of whether ISPs would be responsible for monitoring all the material trafficking through their system. He added: "For the larger ones it is going to be almost impossible for them to do so without putting enormous resources into their infrastructure."

Salon Cassandra complex
"Sven Birkerts says computers are destroying literature. He couldn't be more wrong.

...Birkerts thinks, this new technology, chatty and endlessly in the know, is changing not only our reading and thinking habits, but our very selves. Human beings are so adaptable, they're sure to get with the digital program: speedy information scanning, our brains mimicking computers, all data, no deep and complicated conversions to knowledge, and no housing anymore for a soul.

I think he's wrong, in large part because his idea of print culture is so shallow -- what I distill from it is a nostalgic image of a reader, arms full of fresh books from the library, ambling through the tree-lined streets of a small town to the comfy chair in a quiet room. This has never been reality, as Birkerts knows, but even as an ideal or a standard for a civilized life it's too narrow to be inspiring."

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“"You're not a designer, you're not a writer, and you're not an editor!"

Well, no, blogger, you're not. And therein lies your gift. Because even if it's true the vast majority of blogs would not be missed by more than a handful of people were the earth to open up and swallow them, and even if the best are still no substitute for the sustained attention of literary or journalistic works, it's also true that sustained attention is not what Web logs are about anyway. At their most interesting they embody something that exceeds attention, and transforms it: They are constructed from and pay implicit tribute to a peculiarly contemporary sort of wonder.

...[T]he Web log reflects our own attempts to assimilate the glut of immaterial data loosed upon us by the "discovery" of the networked world. And there are surely lessons for us in the parallel. For just as the cabinet of wonders took centuries to evolve into the more orderly, logically crystalline museum, so it may be a while before the chaos of the Web submits to any very tidy scheme of organization.”

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