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May 31, 2011

Love in a Battlefield

Just a few months after settling a lawsuit over comments she tweeted about fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir, singer Courtney Love have been sued over another statement Twitter, as well as a comment to the New York Post

May 23, 2011

My Short Comment on Courtroom Tweeting

The Alaska Dispatch news site has quoted me in an article on an Alaska judge who expressed displeasure over two tweets sent by a television reporter covering a prominent murder trial. Since the article's about tweets, which are limited to 140 characters, it's appropriate that my comment in the article (with spaces) is 141 characters long. Guess I should have dropped the period.

Banned in (much of) Britain, And Beyond?

(cross posted at the Citizen Media Law Project)
Social media are abuzz about a English Premier League footballer ("soccer player" to us Yanks) Ryan Giggs, who has obtained an order from a British court requiring Twitter to reveal the identity of various tweeters who identified him as having had an affair with model and Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas.