As technological innovations rapidly increase the applicable law lags further behind leaving gaps and questions. Case in point: blogs, like the one you're reading.  Are they fish or fowl?  Are they another form of journalism?  If they are, do the laws of journalism apply?
Eugene Volokh, a lawyer who is also a blogger, analyzes these and other questions and offers a few tentative solutions.
 
In the meantime,  if you have any non criminal interesting tips you want publicized, just let me know.
 
Ethel C. Fenig   12 3 04