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Smug and insufferable

Charles Pierce on Alterman's blog:  "Molly [Ivins] made a point often of how much she liked good politicians and believed in the political system {...}…

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SXSW - panelizing about Video Mashups

I'm psyched to be speaking on a panel this spring at the South By Southwest Interactive conference. The panel is on Tuesday, March 13, and is entitled Video…

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The best defense against identity theft

Wells Fargo and Visa released a study on Thursday that reported a significant decline in reports of identity theft last year.  Still, the losses to individuals…

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Shloss hearing

I attended the motion to dismiss hearing in the Shloss v. Estate of Joyce case on Wednesday morning. Here a photo of Professor Shloss and two people from the le…

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Query By Humming: Whistle While You Work

For several years I’ve been following advances in ‘Music Information Retrieval’ (MIR), mostly through a Music IR list.   This heavily academic community present…

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RIP Molly Ivins

Molly Ivins was one of the few voices that kept me sane back in my formative days in North Texas.  And man, could she write... as James Thurman put it, when she…

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Zimbio's cool blogging tool

Zimbio is a cool web 2.0 collaborative media company, that has developed a great tool for promoting your blog. (Full disclosure: Zimbio is a client of my firm,…

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Photos from Digital Privacy Symposium

I have posted pictures from our live symposium event last Friday on my Flickr page. Thanks to everyone who helped make the event a success! Also, thanks to Lau…

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Employees and the Fourth Amendment

Today, a three judge panel from the Ninth Circuit withdrew its opinion in United States v. Zeigler and issued a new opinion. As you may remember, the original…