Agricultural and Applied Economics—Without Apology
A few weeks ago, in a post on fair use in the blogosphere, I wrote:
“In my view, social norms in the blogosphere indeed represent a departure from the fair use doctrine, although I am not aware of actual court cases where a blogger has been accused of breaching copyright law. If someone knows of such a case, I’d be interested to hear about it in the comments.”
It turns out that there are such cases. Last weekend, The Atlantic‘s Megan McArdle wrote about “copyright trolling”:
Tom over at A View from the Cave has shared his notes for a talk he recently gave in Washington, DC on social media as well as what can be learned from development bloggers.
Unless you have been off the grid all of last week, you are probably aware that AOL has purchased the Huffington Post for $315 million in cash and stock.
Nate Silver, of fivethirtyeight.com fame, provides his usual excellent analysis in a post on his New York Times blog discussing both the deal and the economics of blogging.