I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
Cohen in the NYT today: "Some of my summer in France was spent listening to indignant outbursts about U.S. health care reform. The tone: “You must be kiddi…
This is a great dialogue. See Don's latest post here. I feel like my understanding of the issues we're discussing is improving, and I think I've g…
Don posted his response to my blog entry here, and I encourage you all to check it out. Many thanks to him for all the quality thought! I was inspired by the…
Dowd today: "...President Obama is so wrapped up in his desire to be a different, more conciliatory, beer-summit kind of leader, he ignores some verities.…
Sometimes changes are so basic and world-changing that they can be difficult to recognize. Having just finished Losing the News by Alex S. Jones, I was reminde…
Don Dodson and I went to high school together. And like all high schoolers, we pretty much resembled each other during the years we shared wandering the halls…
I've blogged before about the impact of anthropomorphic interfaces and devices. I've recently written an article on the subject. In it I point out that…
I made a lot of people in the Linux community unhappy when I wrote in CIO Insight ( "Battle over Linux: When a Win May Not Be a Win," Sept., 2007 ) t…
I write extensively in Chapter 8 of my new book,The Laws of Disruption, about the madness of prosecuting Lori Drew, a Missouri woman, for her participation in a…
When is a comic book worth $3,600,000 more than its face value? Answer: When Walt Disney wants to buy it. Today, Disney announced it had agreed to acquire Marv…
From Valleywag (warning: heavily airbrushed and quite cleavagey model picture after the link): "...that's the thing about being impolite online: it mig…
Kristof in the NYT today: "Opponents suggest that a “government takeover” of health care will be a milestone on the road to “socialized medicine,” and when…