• Draft of a Blogger’s Code of Conduct from Tim O’Reilly.
  • Negative feedback on the code of conduct from Roller creator Dave Johnson.
  • Negative feedback on the code of conduct from Jason Kottke.
  • Don Imus is a bigot.
  • Foreign Policy lists big predictions that didn’t pan out.
  • Francis Fukuyama says it was hardline elements in Iran who lost out when the Iranian government freed the captured British sailors. It’s hard for me to see the timely release of the sailors with no lives lost on either side as a bad outcome.
  • The Taliban kidnaps an Italian journalist and his Afghan translator. The Italian and Afghan governments worked out a prisoner exchange with the Taliban. The Italian is freed, the Afghan is not. The Afghan government refuses to make another deal, and the translator is beheaded. Both sides blame each other.
  • How does your name wind up on the Terrorist Watch List? Retired Marine colonel and Constitutional scholar Walter Murphy suspects that he’s on it due to a speech critical of the President that he gave. Wired News security correspondent Ryan Singel says no way.