This morning I intended, as usual, to write and report on the various tech news that I found important and interesting but instead kept returning to a topic that is burning brightly in one very important segment of the internet. This topic was so strong that it dominated an entire post and became the longest blog post I’ve ever written. Because I haven’t actually published it, I can’t link to it yet, but it will be coming.

Writing is funny that way sometimes. Even though you can plan to write about one thing, another can write itself into precedence. It’s that type of spontaniety that fascinates me with the writing profession. And for those journalistic snobs who think us bloggers are just wannabe writing hackers out here, too bad for you that some of us actually do aspire to be more than literary mosquitoes to your trade.

It’s even more exciting in fiction where a story takes on a life of its own. Characters can speak and protest and want to go down a different path than where they were intended to travel. I’ve always felt this was like a type of creative chaos and it’s the writer’s responsibility to weave all this together into something that makes sense and is entertaining, useful, relevant and from a business standpoint: salable. Some great work has been written that isn’t salable.

I digress.

Yesterday something significant happened. A new set of regulations went into effect which impact the legal requirements for publishing of certain types of adult material online. In the meantime, so you can get up to speed, go do some Googling on US 18 2257 regulations and you’ll be better informed on the situation.

It is a political and business topic and I typically don’t do much political discussion at this blog. However, when politics meet business, especially business that hits close to home, it resonates with me and I need to work out my thoughts and try and refine my beliefs of how our government here in the US of A should work.

I’m sure many folks leave the political blogs to come to technology blogs and escape the politics but there are times when there is crossover between the two that simply cannot be overlooked without commentary.

Later, I will share. Maybe not today, but soon, I promise. Stay tuned.

Update 6/26/05: It’s been published here.

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