“Blogs and chat rooms tend to be vehicles for the expression of opinions; by their very nature, they are not a source of facts or data upon which a reasonable person would rely.”

Courts (and the public) are going to have to expand their vocabulary that there might be different types of blogs which would thus be judged differently.

Incidentally, in the Cahill decision, the anonymous message board posters (not bloggers) were allowed to stay anonymous. Yet in this case, the plaintiff and the court were able to discover the identity behind minnesotademocratsexposed.com (which I believe is registered via Domains By Proxy) in order to serve the civil suit papers. If one wants to be an anonymous blogger with their own domain, this outing doesn’t portend very well.