Bloggers have enjoyed a reasonable amount of protection from the rigors of traditional media publishers in the past. This has been changing over the last two or so years. There have been cases where a blogger was charged with running an illegal newspaper, while others have got into trouble with the local law for publishing articles that spoke against the local regimes.

Another big one happened this week. A court in England determined that a blogger was not entitled to his anominity. The person in question was a police officer who ran a popular anonymous blog. Eventually a journalist figured out who it was.

In the judgment the court stated that blogging was a public activity and as such there could be no reasonable expectation of anominity.

Additionally in this case the Judge said it was also in the public interest. While English law is not binding to anyone else, it is showing a particular direction that the courts are taking in online publishing matters.

I am sure we will see many more such reports in the future.

Read the full story here.

(Source: JanWhitaker.com)