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…
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…
Dave Dederer, who sang two velvet underground songs to set the stage for some of the debate, has some ideas for how music artists can monetize their hard work.…
I loved Kathy Gil's comment: Don't let geeks name things. Her example is that we need to change the term Network Neutrality to Network Discrimination. I…
So, it's the start of Gnomdex, and the introduction includes an official Washington State proclamation that June 30-July 1 are "RSS Days" in this…
So I'm up in Seattle for a few days to attend Gnomdex later this week and to spend some time with my family and our newest member, Marcus Paul Vogele, who I…
"Rules" and "physical laws" are two powerful, immediate, external influences on our behavior. At its heart, a rule is little more than a su…
I'm at SuperNova2006 today. The morning started off with a talk about Net Neutrality by Michael Copps of the FCC. The talk left me pleased that someone is u…
I was a bit disturbed this morning as I drove down the penninsula to the Podcasting Summit in Redwood City. What disturbed me was Scott Cleland's "argu…
Spent some great quality time with Denise Howell this week. On Monday we recorded a podcast for her IT Conversations series, Sound Policy, and today we appeared…
We filed an amicus brief (.pdf) on behalf of a number of law professors arguing that the claims made against the phone company do not require disclosure of stat…
Despite having had a bad travel experience the night before this presentation, Audrey's presentation was fun and energetic. She described the humble start…