There's an interesting story on /. today about a blogger facing a lawsuit over comments posted to his website. These comments made some very nasty remarks about a competitor and are alleged to contain secret, proprietary information. However, it's not quite as clear-cut as all that--the owner also took to casually bashing his competitor. In short, the whole situation is a bit muddy, but, nevertheless, this is the sort of thing that could prove disastrous for educators using blogs. Just imagine how it would sound to an administrator if blog owners could be sued over comments posted by anonymous and malicious users. That'd probably provide another "solid" reason for keeping instructors' websites behind passwords and unavailable to the public.