To kick-off EFF's forthcoming 15th Anniversary celebrations, we'll be holding a special BayFF exploring the legal issues surrounding blogging. The roundtable discussion will feature EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl, local bloggers, and companies that create blogging tools.
Opsahl, who leads EFF's bloggers' rights campaign, is one of the attorneys representing online journalists in Apple v. Does, the case in which Apple Computer, Inc., is seeking to unmask the journalists' confidential sources for articles about a future Apple product.
More about bloggers' rights and Apple v. Does:
http://www.eff.org/bloggers/
WHAT:
BayFF on Bloggers' Rights
WHEN:
7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 19, 2005
WHERE:
111 Minna Gallery http://www.111minnagallery.com/
111 Minna Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel: (415) 974-1719
WHO:
Kurt Opsahl- Moderator
Kurt Opsahl, who leads EFF's bloggers' rights campaign,
is also one of the attorneys representing online
journalists in Apple v. Does, the case in which Apple
Computer, Inc., is seeking to unmask the journalists'
confidential sources for articles about a future Apple
product. Read more about bloggers' rights and Apple v.
Does at www.eff.org/bloggers
Violet Blue - Panelist
Violet Blue is a hardworking sex writer, editor, adult book
and video reviewer, and machine artist. By day she works
as Assistant Guest Editor at the popular erotic blog
Fleshbot. Visit Violet's blog at www.fleshbot.com
(warning: not work safe).
danah boyd - Panelist
danah boyd is a Ph.D.researcher at the School of Information
Management and Systems at UC Berkeley studying how people
negotiate their presentation of self in mediated social
contexts to unknown audiences. Most of her work revolves
around articulated social networks, blogging, and other
social software. She blogs at Zephoria
, misbehaving.net
, and Many-to-Many. Learn
more about danah at
www.danah.org
Dan Gillmor - Panelist
Dan Gillmor is founder of Grassroots Media Inc., a project
aimed at enabling grassroots journalism and expanding its
reach. The company's first launch is www.Bayosphere.com, a
site "of, by and for the Bay Area." Gillmor, a former
columnist with the San Jose Mercury News, is author
of "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People,
for the People" (O'Reilly Media, 2004), a book that
explains the rise of citizens' media and why it matters.
Mary Hodder - Panelist
Mary Hodder is an information architect and interaction
designer for several web service companies with social
media sites. Previously a web products manager at
Technorati, Mary works with companies in open source,
photo sharing, and blog aggregation. She blogs at
Napsterization and
was
an original author at bIPlog, the Berkeley Intellectual
Property Weblog.
Jackson West - Panelist
Jackson West brings a fresh voice, wit, and style to
SFist, the San Francisco outpost of Gothamist. He
serves up regular restaurant, book, film, theater, music,
and nightlife reviews and edits SFist for free - and
he loves every second of it. Visit Jackson's blog at
www.sfist.com
This event is free and open to the general public. You must be 21+. Refreshments and birthday cake will be served. Please RSVP to (415) 436-9333 x129 or bayff-rsvp@eff.org
111 Minna Gallery is accessible via BART. Get off at the Montgomery station and use the exit marked 2nd and Market. Walk south on 2nd Street for a block and a half, and take a right down the Minna Street Alley. 111 Minna Street is located between Mission and Howard streets.
