… was the provocative title of a session at the Blogher conference. I am delighted to see that the audio for that is now available. Also see a partial transcript of the session by one of the people attending.

Some notes off the top of my head - From 7:30 (and throughout) the panelists and those listening talk about what they perceive as the benefits of “identity blogging” (a new term for me). On the other hand at 22:26 I heard that the author of I, Asshole found the contents of her blog being used (unsuccessfully) against her in a child custody action on her divorce - a risk of personal weblogging I had not hitherto considered!

And lastly, a contribution at 38;00 from Amy Gahran who has a blog, Contentious and who says that in the coming weeks she is going to be adding a page to her professional site saying, “by the way, I am polyamorous” because as she puts it, “I want people to know I exist”.

I respect and admire her desire and willingness to reveal a stigmatised identity to help others with that identity (a common theme among those at that talk and a theme explored by McKenna and Bargh) but to put that information on her professional site? It’s hard for a repressed Brit to get his head around (and I know at least one of my friends is poly)…

The insularity of American web publishers has long been a pet peeve of mine so the launch of the Electronic Freedom Foundation’s Legal Guide for Bloggers with accompanying American-style logo struck a sore nerve. It’s true that in their overview of common issues FAQ they point out that laws vary between countries but several of the sub-FAQs fail to make this point and some of them could therefore actually mislead the unwary. Like their guide to defamation law which says, “If the plaintiff is a public figure, he or she must also prove actual malice” - not true in the UK, for example, I believe. I think in Europe people also have more rights to privacy than here (eg I think you in theory have to get permission from people you take pictures of if you want to publish them though I am not sure about this).

Simply calling it the Legal Guide for American Bloggers would help a lot here, and if they encouraged other major blogging countries’ policy wonks to produce similar guides (and linked to them) that would help a lot too. Meanwhile, serious UK and European bloggers might want to look at The Legal and Regulatory Environment for Electronic Information by Charles Oppenheim which I picked up some time ago though it is now four years old (can anyone suggest anything more recent and/or cheaper?). Suggestions via comments of websites and other online resources relevant to other countries would be welcome.

Of course, I should add, the EFF’s publication of a guide like this is, on the whole, a Good Thing, they have produced lots of other good stuff both for Americans and for the wider Internet-using public and if you are in the US and a blogger (or just want to see how their law affects ordinary members of the American web publishing public) this guide is well worth reading. Also see their guide to How to Blog Anonymously…

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Dave Pollard makes a very rough numerical comparison of bloggers with mainstream media outlets. It’s a brave effort but it’s clearly impossible to compare newspapers and blogs - not just because the texts tend to be different sizes but because they are likely to be consumed (and produced) with such different motivations and under such different circumstances.

It does hammer home though just how limited our knowledge is of the micro-detail of how blogs are consumed compared with the detailed knowledge we have of who watches what TV programmes when and how. It’s a pity more of the large weblogs don’t provide details of their traffic as boingboing does.

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Just a few weeks after the launch of Ourmedia comes Google Video which also promises to archive video of any size (for free, so far) but in addition offers you the chance to sell the right to view clips. No sign that you will be able to make video clips only viewable by friends, though. And coming soon there is Vimeo which is like Flickr but for video clips instead of stills. This seems to me the most useful way to enable video sharing for most people (who only want or need to share their video with the people they know) but it is a small startup so it is not clear whether it will take off…

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The BBC brings an example from Austria where Telekom Austria’s Aon TV has enabled residents of a small town to create their own broadband news station.

Two things I wonder - how much training and promotion was necessary to get this off the ground and how long will it last (it started at the end of 2004).

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