A piece on the legal perils of blogging in Canada is only marred by smugness on the writer's part, but it's misplaced: he seems to think getting sued is the price bloggers pay for whoring after media attention. I think he's mistaken: getting sued is the price some bloggers pay for expressing opinions without a bank of big-media lawyers as backup, yes, but that's a different matter. (In other words, bloggers do want readers. Whether any of these readers are mainstream journalists is not such a pressing matter.)

The piece includes an aperçu of the problems being experienced by Zeke's Gallery and several other blogs in Canada, a country unfortunately not quite so firm in its dedication to freedom of speech as our neighbours to the south. Some of us may have been misled into imagining we have an American's freedom to say what we think. As a blogger I'm watching these cases to see where the discrepancy falls. posted at 13:06