I had a piece on blogging in the Review section of yesterdays Fin Review (yes, I know its confusing). I tried to move a bit beyond the “Blogging 101” story that has been run a few thousand times by now, and look at the implications of the Lott cases (Trent and John) for the relationship between blogs and traditional media (which, I should have observed but didn’t, basically means newspapers and their online offshoots in this context). Online versions should be available for AFR subscribers and for those with access to Lexis or Factiva. Everyone else will either have to find a physical copy of the paper or wait until I post it. I’ve discovered that access for AFR subscribers only goes back eight days, so I now plan to post my own articles as soon after this period as possible, given my increasing overcommitment.

While I’m on this topic I just ran across a fascinating piece by Doc Searls and David Weinberger called “World of Ends What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else. ” Most of it will be familiar to readers of Lessig or to anyone who’s hung round the Internet long enough, but it’s a witty and succinct restatement of the case.