The waiting is the hardest part

Sorry, kids. If you were counting on there being a ruling regarding whether Apple has the right to obtain email and other data from a few journalist's ISPs in the big silly Apple "trade secrets" lawsuit this week, you're out of luck. Judge James Kleinberg says
he's still considering the case and the expectation is that it will be a few more days before there is a ruling. You may recall that Apple decided to sick their legal bull dogs on the publishers of the
PowerPage, Apple Insider and

ThinkSecret in order to get the names of the Apple
employees who leaked information regarding unreleased Apple products. The sites all refused to name their sources, so Apple sought the
right to subpoena the email providers of those sites instead.

Win, lose or draw, as
Cnet
points out, this case brings up some very interesting questions about the nature of online journalism – and blogging -
in general. "There was no journalism here," Apple attorney George Riley said in court. "They were simply fencing stolen information by publishing it verbatim."

Uh oh... think I'll get sued for publishing that stolen quote, verbatim?