Blogger Could be Sued for Copyright Violations

Paul, I really don't see anything wrong with linking to other articles as long as the blogger offers some original analysis. This is a very important part of what citizen media adds to the mass media community. I read lots of blogs as well as traditional news media and much of what bloggers (specifically those participating in citizen media) do is digest, analyze and editorialize about current events in the news. The linking process helps send readers to the source so they can read and digest both the blogger's opinion and the additional information in the original article.

I don't know what you are referring to as far as what you read when you signed up (for what?) but I took another look at the CoH and it does not indicate that seeding links from blogs that link to other articles is inappropriate. I am looking in the wrong place?

I think you really just exposed your nerdom picking on the appropriate use of the term Blogger (which many of us do quite often on Newsvine). When I read the headline, I did not think Google Blogger, I thought a blogger. If you read my teaser comment, I think it is quite obvious what the article is about. Are you suggesting that no one should use the term "Blogger" unless they are speaking specifically about Google Blogger? It's too late for that, just like it's to late for Band Aid and Xerox; what else are we going to call people using blog media as a medium?

And as an FYI, I always leave the titles of seeds as they are on the article unless its too long in which case I cut off a couple words and use and ellipsis.