A State Record .?.?. By Any Other Name
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 17--A Jamestown, N.D., man has caught what likely would be a state record zander in North Dakota -- if a category for the fish existed.
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Rasmussen Reports - A Georgia state judge ruled that a new state law requiring voters to show photo ID is a violation of the state constitution (see story).
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By Chuck Thompson, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Sep.
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By Marv Balousek, The Wisconsin State Journal  Sep.
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It was just a name, one of dozens flowing by in a little-known Internet chat room for identity thieves. Sandwiched between requests to barter various kinds of ill-gotten data ("Trading one valid [credit card] for my 5mb proxy list or hosting" ... "[need] linux host to put my site on.. i have cvv2's, msg me to deal") and inane chatter ("wat u upto?") came the simple, unadorned lines: "card type: Debit Card ... Name: Dallas Thomas ... city: Stillwater ... state: ok."
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By Dee Dixon, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  May 27--BEAUMONT -- The old journals and church registries record decades of history.   As the Rev.
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By Leigh Hornbeck and Kenneth C. Crowe II, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 6--QUEENSBURY -- In law, there is only fact, not what could have been or should have been.
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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It&#39;s normally employed to drum up that missing address, phone number or website, or to check facts, dates, names and other miscellany.
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By John Stamper, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky. Feb.
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A customer filed a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy for losing an $1100 laptop she took in for service. The reason, exposure to identity theft.  It's about time vendors were forced to recognize the value of customers' data. I recall how the chief genius at the Apple store in Emeryville complained that they would have to eat the cost of the drive in a deal they made with the manufacturer. Someday they'll have a clue that the data on most drives is worth far more than the hardware, and that their potential liability, if the data ends up in the hands of an identity thief, is also much greater.
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By Kris Hundley, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.  Sep.
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There's been a mostly fantastic discussion about fair use in this neighborhood for the last few days.  It started when a photograph of Lane Hartwell's was used in a video spoof of the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire."  The first I heard of this was in a Twitter post of hers where she said she was turning off access to her entire Flickr collection because this picture was used without permission. A series of communications with the people who did the video resulted in the video being taken down. Later Mike Arrington, who is a lawyer, wrote a piece saying she didn't have right on her side, and that the video's use of her picture was probably fair use. I found Mike's piece compelling. Others took offense. It thought it was a useful part of the discussion. I understand Ms Hartwell's point of view. I hate it when people copy a whole post of mine and paste it into theirs. But then I grab bits of images and put them on my blog and people rarely complain. The blogosphere is built on being loose about copyright and fair use.  I'm doing a deal with a content company and all these issues are coming up. We haven't been able to write a contract that covers all the things they want covered and make it possible for me to do what I need to do, and they want my product to work. It's a real mess we're in. Bloggers are supposed to be radicals when it comes to fair use and copyright, but that generalization doesn't work with many creative people. Hartwell's position in some ways is like the RIAA or MPAA, who bloggers often dismiss as clueless. How can we have it both ways? How can some defend her position yet not defend the entertainment industry? There's a lot to discuss here, and a lot of the discussion on the blogs has been informative and respectful. Not all of it, but to an unusually high degree.  So, I am interested in doing an in person "flash conference" on the subject of fair use in a few weeks. I'd say next week if it weren't Christmas. Most conferences are so boring. I want to do a conf on a hot subject when it's still hot in the blogosphere. This may be a good subject for such a quickly organized conference. What do you think of the flash conference idea for this??
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A flurry of contested memos and memories sheds more heat than light on his record
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THERE WILL be an asterisk next to Barry Bonds&#39; home-run records. It may not appear in Major League Baseball&#39;s official archives, but it will be ingrained in the public mind.
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Florida has launched a new Web site allowing parents to check on the disciplinary records of teachers. Other states may follow suit.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep.