Needlenose

Netroots Nation ’09 edition (via Firedoglake — photo by Eli at multi-medium.net).

Via Kevin Drum, I learned this evening of the latest(?) attempt to “map” the blogiverse… and, in an appalling lapse of judgment, Needlenose is included! (We appear to be an asteroid being sucked in by the gravitational pull of Eschaton, which is directly above us, but I don’t know if that’s intentional.)

So, whatever our faults and erratic orbit of late, we’re still on the map. Â I guess not everyone knows this is nowhere, after all.

Markos, on the Associated Press briefly threatening bloggers who reproduce AP stories:

Lots of blogs are calling for boycotts of AP content. Not me. I’m going to keep using it. I will copy and paste as many words as I feel necessary to make my points and that I feel are within bounds of copyright law (and remember, I’ve got a JD and specialized in media law, so I know the rules pretty well). And I will keep doing so if I get an AP takedown notice (which I will make a big public show of ignoring). And then, either the AP — an organization famous for taking its members work without credit — will either back down and shut the hell up, or we’ll have a judge resolve the easiest question of law in the history of copyright jurisprudence.

I guess I’ll keep citing the AP as appropriate here as well.