[Redcloak]

The panelists took a generally libertarian view of the question. Let people decide whom to believe, seemed to be the consensus. Trust is king in the blogosphere. Fakers, posers and con artists won't last long. Many attendees, however, were unsatisfied.

"But what about all these anonymous bloggers?" an attendee demanded.

"I know of a case where a guy was posing as 'Libertarian Girl' and he's really a 50-year-old man," offered another.

"I think blogs are dead," piped one surly attendee.

More whistling past the graveyard by the Legacy Media.

[nopardons]

FR has had and still does have,its share of frauds,con-artists, and liars.

classeygreeneyedgirl was a 50 something man,DeepInTheHuntingForest was NOT in the military and never had been,snowbunny was NOT a young,voluptuous woman and stole her profile from from many other people who actually did what she had calimed to have done,but didn't, and there've many more.

FREEPERS aren't "bloggers"; though some do have their own blogs. But it WAS FREEPERS who were the first to call Dan Rather on that fraudulent memo and many other things,over the years, as well.

[Bob J]

"Garance Franke-Ruta from the American Prospect suggested out loud that the blogging industry impose "community norms" to prevent libelous postings, like the ones recently revealed to be the handwork of Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich staffer Joseph Steffen..."

We already have them, it's called slander or libel.

And what, no mention of "Smirking Chimp"?

[FreedomCalls]

But what about all these anonymous bloggers?" an attendee demanded.

Like that guy "Publius" writing all those Federalist Papers ...