Wild Wild West of the internet

I was listening to the radio this morning and I heard about a recent court case that has to do with the freedom of speech and how far that carries over into the world of the internet. I took a look online and found out some more information about this story. What happened was that a model, Liskula Cohen, had her photo and information posted on the blog called "skanks in NYC". She says that the blog referring to her as a skank defamed her.
The story gets really interesting with what Cohen did next. She contacted Google, the blog host, and told them to notify the blogger so that he or she could retain counsel and object to being unmasked, which is what Cohen wanted to occur. This brings us to the question what do we do, Do we unmask the person who wrote this blog or do we let them post the way other bloggers do without their faces ever being seen? It really is an excellent question.
The internet has provided a forum up until this point in time where people can post pretty much any kind of opinions or information that they want under internet privacy rights. If this blogger is unmasked then I could see a potential negative in others following suit in suing for defamation which in turn could further clog up the court systems.
Some responsibility does have to be taken by bloggers but how much responsibility?

LaGuardia terminal evacuated

So I woke up this morning and started checking some of my overnight emails and I came across this news story. It has to do with a man who early this morning walked into the airport acting suspiciously and left a bag out in the open in the middle of the airport. Thankfully the bag was looked through by bomb deactivation teams once the terminal had been evacuated and it was shown that the bag contained a harmless batteries with some wires attached to add to the effect of the fake weapon.
There are a few things that I picked up from this story besides the fact that the guy who planted the bag is a nut job. It really is amazing how quickly an entire airport terminal can be evacuated in the case of an emergency. The people who are in charge of emergency control at the airport really deserve a lot of credit because it can't be easy to orderly evacuate an entire terminal full of travelers.
I know what your thinking, not the longest blog entry of mine. I just felt some credit needed to be given to those who stepped up in this potentially dangerous situation.