This could not be happening to a nicer guy, nor one that has given as much of himself to build up the Philippine blogosphere.

A death in the family, a continuing legal case that has drained his financial resources, and more personal problems have forced the Filipino editor of the Blog Herald, Abe Olandres, to step down as its editor, INQUIRER.net learned Saturday.

Abe has essentially bootstrapped his own career as the definitive “go-to” person regarding technical and how-to issues in this area.

The legal issue - which is avoidable - is particularly disturbing to me.