Dear Åsa Rosenberg, Thanks a lot for your informative and interesting e-mail. You make a good point about the use of quotations, and I will have to re-think that aspect, although since my analysis will be linguistic, it will be easier to point to uses of linguistic and paralinguistic features, without quoting the clauses in which they are found, than in other forms of research. Do I understand you correctly that it is more a matter of ethics, than legal issues with regards to the blogger, who has concerns consenting for her readers. The way I see it, I can reply to the blogger that she is welcome to inform her readers in a post that the blog is being observed for research, but that there are no legal problems in her informing me that I may study her blog, as long as I anonymize the readers etc.? Best wishes Brook