PR Flacking / Reputation-Credit II
Final arguments were scheduled to have been filed in the Nitke v. Ashcroft US court case, concerning issues of US censorship law, the Internet, and community standards (recall, I'm an expert witness for the civil-liberties side). So it's time for another round of flackery. I'm actually slightly optimistic this round, since I did get an expression of interest. So it's not all bad.
But again, I am not cut out for this sort of thing. I agonize over whether to make another (likely futile) try at working around Slashdot's shame of an abusive editor who has obvious, blatant, personal grudges. In general, I have to risk perhaps annoying people who ignored me in the first round. I'm not good at glad-handing. Even with better prospects, it's still a time-sink and draining. Oh, glory be the blogolution (link omitted there out of self-preservation) versus gatekeepers.
To the tune of Matchmaker, Matchmaker:
Gatekeeper, gatekeeper, give me a link.
blog to my blog, track me a back.
Gatekeeper, gatekeeper, read through your feed
And give me a traffic link.
[Update: Sigh, it doesn't seem as if there's much of a hook for a
press story. There were a few schedule changes. If anyone cares:
The free-speech side post-trial brief was submitted on November 27.
The government is filing its post-trial reply brief on December 23.
The free-speech side rebuttal then will be filed on December 30.
After the holidays, some of this material may get posted
on the website of lead lawyer
John Wirenius.
]
