Local blog refuses to take down comments that annoy one society's lawyers

Chillmark Research, a Cambridge consulting firm that analyzes adoption of IT in healthcare, explains (very politely) what the lawyers for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society in Chicago can do with their request that the firm not only delete blog comments that offend them (see the note from "Calvin Jablonski" on this post) but help the lawyers track down the person who posted them.

... HIMSS, we invite you to write a Guest Post that we would gladly post on the Chilmark Research site and highlight it to set the record straight. Seems like a good solution to us but to date it has gone unanswered. ...

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When will people learn...

The best way to increase a blog's readership by orders of magnitude is to write them a nastygram.

There's a name for it

Google "streisand effect".

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