Citing blog posts in court decisions

[via Rainer Langenhan, 1] How do You correctly cite blog posts? There has been raised a discussion on conventions regarding the citation of blog posts. In a court decision they recently pointed to a blog. Citing URLs may be a pain, if they use the title as filename. I would rather propose to provide a shorter numeric name at least as an alternative. But apart from that – as it has been partly mentioned [2] – the author, the date of the post, the title and the URL would probably a good start.

The title, 2004-02-04, John Doe, http://example.com/blog/item123.html

[1] http://log.handakte.de/archiv/002999.shtml#002999
[2] http://randgaenge.net/2003/09/28.html#a1941

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