Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Over at incorporated subversion I’ve just put up a piece on community sites and legal responsibilities, especially in terms of blogs.

While not regular blogsavvy fare I think there is a particularly significant issue here regarding the differentiation between forum contribution (for examples NY Times Opinion or Guardian Comment is Free style) and the responsibility of a ‘blog provider’ (for example WordPress.com, edublogs.org or even Le Monde Blogs).

In particular you’ll note that most of these comment sites have fairly in depth coverage of what is and is not acceptable, what will happen to stuff that isn’t acceptable and means…