It's a miracle. Blogger is back. I swear, it wakes up even later than me. It's been dead since this morning - the big hoohas in the Google sky promise me they're trying to find out what's wrong once and for all.
Update on the USA Next lawsuit. For those who are interested, we've now posted a copy of the legal complaint (i.e., the lawsuit) online. You can find it, and other public documents from the case, here. As you may know, AP wrote a story about the suit.
Interestingly, they updated it last night, AP does that, and included new quotes from Mark Montini, the Internet consultant who helped work on the ad for USA Next.
A consultant hired by USA Next, Mark Montini, took the photo from the Portland Tribune's Web site. He said Wednesday that "it looks like we made a mistake" in not first getting permission from the Tribune.Doesn't sound like an apology to me.
"At the end of the day the worst case scenario was something fell through the cracks in our office," he said in an interview. Asked if he felt badly about using the photos of people who did not agree with his group's agenda, he said: "They were posing for pictures in the newspaper. Nobody would know about this if they haven't made a big deal about it."
