I believe the research already shows that most non-uber-bloggers use one of the online services such as LiveJournal or Blogger as their training ground. Both sites, and every other similar one I can think of, makes private and public very clear in their set-up. I think it may be "what if'ing" to think a newbie blogger could set-up their own site, and install and format the software without having enough knowledge to at least ask the password protection question...even if they didn't immediately know how to set a password up. Lois Ann Scheidt Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA Adjunct Instructor - School of Informatics, IUPUI, Indianapolis IN USA and IUPUC, Columbus IN USA Webpage: http://www.loisscheidt.com Blog: http://www.professional-lurker.com Quoting Michael Zimmer <michael.zimmer@nyu.edu>:
yes, but again, we're assuming the uber-blogger. Let's say my Mom starts a blog, must we expect her to master password settings and the like? Do only the technically-proficient benefit from protections, rather than the average (or below) publishers of web content? -mz
On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Jeremy Hunsinger wrote:
Let's keep in mind that it is easy enough to make a blog with differing levels of access and thus private messages can stay private and public can be public. There is no reason to license anything really, you just have to properly configure your blog if you want private sections. On Aug 14, 2007, at 6:35 PM, elw@stderr.org wrote:
Copyright does not let you pick, but what if I include a restrictive license? Someone earlier suggested a "Researchers May Not Research Me" license, for example. How far may "Terms of Service" extend? Even if I do not have password protection, couldn't readers be exposed to a clickwrap license (ToS) on reading my blog?
General consensus among attorneys I know has long been that clickwrap licenses on *software* are questionable. By extension, I believe that such a thing on a blog post would be even more so.
ToS/"don't research me" leads you quickly to the slippery slope down which such themes as "thoughtcrime" lie....
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