You take the tendency of technical innovation on the Internet to outpace the regulatory environment, and you cross it with students' ambiguous legal protections against congenitally heavy-handed administrators ... and you get a timely response like the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Student Blogging FAQ, released Friday.

With bloggers of every age fighting for legitimacy, EFF is also running a Bloggers' Rights campaign you might want to check in on. And see Lenin's Tomb for a tartly grounded explication of bloggers' rights in the greater scheme of things.