Friday, November 30, 2007

The Effing Librarian goes to Washington.

Now that I've seen that New York Times op-ed piece ("Pay Me for My Content") on how Facebook, MySpace, Google owe us payment for our labors,
"Most of the big names in the industry — Google, Facebook, MySpace and increasingly even Apple and Microsoft — are now in the business of assembling content from unpaid Internet users to sell advertising to other Internet users."
I'm wondering if there are already law firms out there filing documents in preparation for a huge class action lawsuit against the social networking sites, anticipating that gigantic payoff.

If so, based on my blogging, I'm looking forward to being subpoenaed:

Lawyer: The Effing Librarian. Is Effing your first name?

Me: Morfle lorfle forfle torfle.

Lawyer
: Could you please remove the paper bag from over your head?

Me
: Mmmf. (I remove the bag partway so my mouth is exposed) Could you repeat the question?

Lawyer
: Is Effing your first name?

Me
: I'm afraid I can't answer that on grounds it may incriminate me.