{"id":114,"date":"2006-02-15T14:44:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T22:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=114"},"modified":"2006-02-15T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T22:45:07","slug":"nv-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2006\/02\/nv-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"NV<\/span> 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

At North\u00adern Voice<\/a> this year I was jet-lagged, hav\u00ading arrived from Rome about 10 pm the night before, so did\u00adn\u2019t make it to any\u00adwhere near the num\u00adber of talks I wanted to go to. I did go to Nancy White\u2019s<\/a>, which was an excel\u00adlent, lively, enter\u00adtain\u00ading ses\u00adsion. It gave me lots to think about in terms of how to make my own present\u00ada\u00adtions more inter\u00adest\u00ading (ok, that may not have been the point to her talk, but it was one of my take-aways), as well as how (little) I blog and what I should do about it. Blog more, I know, but get\u00adting over the \u201cI haven\u2019t blogged for a while because I\u2019ve been busy, so what should I start with\u201d hump can be more dif\u00adfi\u00adcult than it appears. Not really writers block, more like \u201cis it worth\u00adwhile writ\u00ading on this when I haven\u2019t writ\u00adten for so long\u201d-block. Hmmm, more think\u00ading needed on that one.<\/p>\n

One oth\u00ader nice thing about North\u00adern Voice is meet\u00ading a range of people whose blogs I\u2019ll start look\u00ading at, that I would\u00adn\u2019t know of oth\u00ader\u00adwise, and hav\u00ading dis\u00adcus\u00adsions on issues ran\u00adging from glob\u00adal cli\u00admate change to SAML<\/span><\/acronym>!<\/p>\n

I took part in a pan\u00adel (three non-law\u00adyers, so we wrote WANL<\/span><\/acronym> (IANAL<\/span><\/acronym> for three people) up on the white\u00adboard in big let\u00adters) that described some hassles people can run into with blogs and some basic things to do (like be care\u00adful what you write, blog\u00adgers are journ\u00adal\u00adists in some ways and can be sued, and fig\u00adure out wheth\u00ader it\u2019s worth the hassle before you decide to fight). I learnt quite a few things and I hope the rest of the audi\u00adence did too. Includ\u00ading the fact that some\u00adtimes you really need a real law\u00adyer, but it\u2019s not always an easy task to find someone who is an expert in this area, and there\u2019s not a lot of case law, espe\u00adcially when it comes to cross-jur\u00adis\u00addic\u00adtion\u00adal issues. A com\u00adment on Jef\u00adfery Simpson\u2019s blog<\/a> men\u00adtioned it would be bet\u00adter to have had a real law\u00adyer there on the pan\u00adel; as Dar\u00adren<\/a> poin\u00adted out, we did try! Maybe one of the three people in the audi\u00adence who admit\u00adted to being law\u00adyers will volun\u00adteer to give a talk next year, although I would expect it to be as full of \u201cthis is not leg\u00adal advice\u201d dis\u00adclaim\u00aders as our pan\u00adel was (law\u00adyers seem to like say\u00ading that sen\u00adtence when talk\u00ading in gen\u00ader\u00adal terms, such as at a con\u00adfer\u00adence or an art\u00adicle on a web site). Some of the ques\u00adtions were about what to do if someone tries a deni\u00adal of ser\u00advice attack on your web site (basic answer: you may need to move to an ISP<\/span> that has the infra\u00adstruc\u00adture to cope with it, as send\u00ading a cease and desist let\u00adter, always assum\u00ading you can find an address to send it to, may not have the desired effect, espe\u00adcially if it\u2019s to anoth\u00ader coun\u00adtry). Most blog\u00adgers won\u2019t run into any of these prob\u00adlems, of course, there\u2019s some\u00adthing to be said for being safely down in the long tail!<\/p>\n

Any\u00adway, here are a few web sites you might like to look at if you\u2019re inter\u00adested in the gen\u00ader\u00adal top\u00adic. Some are from my own research, and oth\u00aders from the dis\u00adcus\u00adsion at NV<\/span>. They\u2019re in no par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar order.<\/p>\n