I don't know if anyone on this list can help me, but I'm so angusihed. Oh...
also, happy
birthday Jay Dedman. I wanted to say that somewhere. Jay has been a force of
nature for
videoblogging. I'm so gratelful for what you've done, Jay.

Anyway, my problem is posted below. I didn't want to make a royal case of this,
but it
appears I have no choice now. I'm so sad there are people like this in the
world. If anyone
can help, post about this or offer me legal advice, I would be so grateful. This
guy has
gone after Michael Verdi too, who gallantly defended me in a little comment on
59bloggers.com.

http://blogumentary.typepad.com/chuck/2005/06/hello_its_me.html

Love,
Chuck (drunk on my birthday!)

Extra thanks to Eric Rice and Michael Meiser for shining a light on this
insanity.

. . .

I hate to deal with negative energy in the world, but sometimes it rears its
ugly head and
throws up on you, completely unsolicited. You see, there's another blog
documentary in
the works, this one called Fifty-nine Bloggers. 2-minute interviews with each
blogger,
many of whom I've interviewed or chatted with. But the here's the thing: The
"former
Hollywood producer" refers to his film as Blogumentary, or a blogumentary, AT
LEAST as
often as the actual name of his film. I wrote him a nice email saying, best of
luck with your
cool project, and by the way it might be confusing to say things like
"Blogumentary
Sponsors" and "Bloggers in the Blogumentary" on your site. You know, since I
already
made a blog documentary by that name.

Well. I got a very nasty, wrong-headed email in return. Here's my favorite part:

You say it would cause "confusion" about your project. Just who would be
confused?
Readers of your blog? Your parents? While you're at it, why don't you complain
to the 60
million users of the word "weblog" or "blog" or "journal" since you have one.
Blog readers
might get "confused" when reading yours, thinking that it resembles a real blog.

Please don't bother me with this bullshit nonsense.
Yep! Thank you, and goodnight. Remember to tip your waitstaff! I managed to be
polite in
my response to him yet again, and asked him not to belittle my legitimate
concern, but
apparently he doesn't give a rat's ass. Keep in mind, I've poured my heart and
soul (and
time and money) into Blogumentary since 2002, so you might say I'm a bit
protective. Not
overly-protective, I don't think. Do you? Anyway, I'm ready to move on now.
Several
Blogumentary fans came out of the woodwork in my defense. I count my lucky stars
for
them, and of course for my comfortable Google presence.

**** UPDATE ***** I AM NOW BEING THREATENED WITH LEGAL ACTION. SO I MAY NEED TO
TAKE PARTS OF THIS POST DOWN... BLOGOSPHERE HELP! LEGAL ADVICE WOULD BE
GREATLY APPRECIATED!