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…
The CIS Fair Use Project filed a copyright suit today (.pdf) on behalf of English Professor Carol Shloss against the Estate of James Joyce. more here.…
This session on IP rights is a leaving me with some things that I think need to be addressed. Lisa Rein is frustrated, and thankfully, she clarified a few thing…
Peter van Djick opened the official program. He claims to be a bit nervous but he says he has some things to say. Here are my notes... His main point is: We a…
I'm at Vloggercon awaiting the start of the activities. The schedule looks great. Hoping to run into a few people I met at OnHollywood last month. (I can…
So I'm off to eBay Live! in Vegas this week. It's sold out for the first time -- all 15,000 slots were gone weeks ago. We're having Huey Lewis and…
From Russell Shorto's review of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War by Nathaniel Patrick: '"When violence and fear grip a society, th…
I hope this isn't a statement about the quality of my life, or the pathetic person I have become. I don't think it is. Nevertheless, I'm very, ver…
On Monday, June 12, I'll be live blogging from this cool conference. Check out the Conference blog here.…
Mia and I are organizing a little happy hour at Varnish Bar & Art Gallery in San Francisco on Thursday, June 15 to celebrate the completion of the Podcastin…
I did two podcasts for Podtech Network recently. This one is about the Apple Bloggers decision, and this one is about Network Neutrality.…
I love baseball, so it was no personal problem for me that "Hearsay Culture", my tech talk show on KZSU-FM (Stanford) was preempted a few times in May…
I had a great afternoon today hanging out with Dave Levine and talking about podcasting on Dave's radio show "Hearsay Culture" at KZSU. The radio…