Battelle on Suing Bloggers

I appreciate John's honestly here.

"I say, fuck that. I've stayed out of this one because it's orthogonal to search, but it's directly related to my ability to do my job, and I am not alone. At the core of this case is a clear attempt to draw a line between professional and amateur journalism, and as a practitioner of both, I have to say it's a very dangerous line to be drawing. Should the courts decide whether the next Tom Paine has to work at the Wall Street Journal before he starting cranking out his pamphlets? I don't think so. "

I think Apple really has their head on wrong here. The MSM is going to vanish and its going to become more grayscale and subjective. A lot of A-list bloggers are starting to make significant cash off their blogs.

Maybe the only qualification to become a "real publisher" (to paraphrase Steve Jobs) is to have a lawyer on retainer.