Okay, there's this reporter named Verne Kopytoff who writes for the business section over at the Chron. We're sure he's a great guy, loves children and puppies, wonderful conversationalist, handsome, yadda yadda. In fact, if he ever felt like getting in touch, we'd be happy to chat over a beer or some coffee. But see, that's the thing. Somehow he got assigned to the 'blog' beat over at the Chron but, um, we're not......

Well, SFist got our legal history off to a good start -- we're involved in a court case, and we're not the defendant! Nor are we the plaintiff -- though if you don't abide by the terms of our Creative Commons license, we will come after you, and we've been in the same room as Lawrence Lessig, so watch out. We read a post on BoingBoing in which their counsel Lauren Gelman over at......

Well, we'd reported on kerfuffle between Apple Computer and a few punk bloggers (AKA Apple v. Does) before, but now there have actually been some legal developments in the case. And while it doesn't look good, it's not entirely hopeless yet, either. At stake is something that SFist holds very dear to our heart -- the concept that bloggers have what journalists working in any other medium have, namely, journalistic privelege. We have our......