Groklaw Will Be Archived At Library of Congress

inode_buddha writes "Groklaw has just received an invitation to be archived in the Library of Congress. In true FOSS style, PJ has decided to ask all the contributors and commenters if they wish to be included, since commenters own the copyrights on their comments. So far, the answer seems to be 'yes,' even for Anonymous Cowards. It's a great honor for Groklaw, but one wonders how many AC's there are, and whether Congress or future researchers would think that they are all one person."

Re:Size of Groklaw archive

[Pop69]

Isn't it obvious that the Library of Congress is always equal to one LOC ?

Your mistake is thinking that one LOC is a constant

Re:Congrats

[msclrhd]

It comes from the pronunciation of "blogs" in some accents:
    * /blA.gz/ -- the 'o' is pronounced the same as in "b(o)ther", where "f(a)ther" and "b(o)ther" are pronounced differently (e.g. British Accents) [to pronounce this, pronounce it as the "ah" in "f(a)ther", but round the lips like in "b(oo)k" and keep it a short sound]
    * /blA:gz/ -- the 'o' is pronounced the same as "f(a)ther", where "f(a)ther" and "b(o)ther" are pronounced the same (e.g. some American Accents)
    * /blOgz/ -- the 'o' is pronounced the same as "m(ore)" (e.g. some American Accents)

The /blOgz/ pronunciation gets transliterated as "blawgs". Therefore, it is a transliteration of that accent and not a typo. It was probably chosen for this and (as people on Groklaw have noted) that it contains the word "law" in it.

c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_low_back_vowels [wikipedia.org]

NOTE: I am using Kirshenbaum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirshenbaum) as /. does not accept Unicode IPA characters.

No New Groklaw Accounts = Anonymous Cowards

[DodgeRules]

Reguarding the Anonymous Cowards comment, PJ had disabled new accounts so it is currently impossible for anyone to create one. All new users have no choice BUT to be anonymous. Some also prefer NOT to be anonymous, but their accounts were disabled/deleted because they posted a serious comment that was against popular opinion and labeled a troll. That isn't to say there aren't a lot of trolls there, because there are.