AI v. the Law: Should the Law Keep Up With AI?
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…
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…
On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Evan Brown pointed me to this interesting debate that's heating up again about "RSS Hijacking" by PodShow. This time its Todd Cochrane at Geeknews…
I'm pleased to report that my show on KZSU-FM, "Hearsay Culture," will continue to run on Wednesdays from 5-6 PM PST through the summer -- with th…
In the world of commons advocacy, a powerful argument in its favor goes like this: by sharing as much information as possible, especially in the research arena,…
So my first Gnomdex conference is now over and I'm exhausted. I met several great people working on great things. For the friends (Denise Howell and JD Lass…
Here's a list of the things people at Gnomdex want to change: (1) There's too much social software. We have no perspective - or our perspective is just…
Halley’s talking about creativity and, in particular, "The Creative Leader". How do you identify the creative leader? How do you compensate the creati…
Philip Kaplan (aka Ask Pud) is here to talk about creating buzz on the internet. He suggests a few suggestions/lessons about creating buzz: (1) Write about gro…
second life - is cool. ip treatment is interesting. people in the world own all the ip they create. story of tringo guy - who made game that is a bingo + tetris…
IODA and Harry Fox just announced a deal they closed yesterday. Under the deal, this service allows you to get a song on your blog and/or in a podcast cleared a…
Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) is here to talk about Net Neutrality debate. He closed his speech by highlighting Powell's Internet Freedoms: 1- Freedom to acce…
Sign the podcasters petition to WIPO about the broacast treaty. If you're a podcast creator or a consumer, you re eligible to sign. I'm no. 159 to sign…
The discussion opened with Edwards providing a few opening comments, and then he took nearly 45 minutes of questions and dialog from the group. Some thoughts/co…