Many mainstream journalists use it to check on the trial," and noted that "for blogs, the Libby trial marks a courthouse coming of age.

At the Libby trial a few steps away, the lawyers were arguing about the legibility of photocopies.

Notwithstanding all the press hand-wringing about its inner workings being exposed during the Libby trial, nobody has offered evidence that anonymous sources no longer leak their secrets.

For blogs, the Libby trial marks a courthouse coming of age.

By contrast, the journalists who testified at the Libby trial were Washington insiders, and they gave the public a master class in access journalism.

Walter Pincus, a reporter for The Washington Post who testified at the Libby trial, disagreed.

The Libby trial has been a favorite of liberal blogs.

You also have to wonder whether new signs that Mr. Gonzales and other administration officials are willing to cooperate with Congress reflect the verdict in the Libby trial.

But those objections seemed to crumble at the Libby trial.

In her accounts of the Libby trial, she describes her entries as "not a transcript."