On Dec 21, 2004, at 5:03 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
At 18:40 21/12/2004, Mark D. Johns wrote:
At 11:48 AM 12/21/2004, Thomas Koenig wrote:
Blogging, Webpublishing and Usenet posting are demonstrably public activities. '
they are clearly and demonstrably public if and only if there is no assumption of privacy built into blog. an assumption of privacy might be having to login to view the blog, or being inside a password protected system, or being in a community of blogs in which some data is only viewable by certain members of the community. those are case that move the blog toward requiring confidentiality because the authors have an assumption that some of their information is only for friends/family/themselves, etc. if there are no known access barriers to the information, then yes, it is likely public, but we have to take care because it will not always be obvious. jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu jeremy.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments