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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…
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Applying Federal Digital Communications Privacy Law to Hosted AI Models
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…
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Well, At Least the Anti-States’ Rights AI EO Spares AI-CSAM Laws
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…
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Peter van Djick's opening comments @ VloggerCon...
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…
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VloggerCon!!!
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…
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Off to eBay Live
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…
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Pilgrim's Progress
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…
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The new phonebook's here! The new phonebook's here!
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…
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Live Blogging @ Stanford's E-Commerce Best Practices Conference
On Monday, June 12, I'll be live blogging from this cool conference. Check out the Conference blog here.…
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happy podding hour @ varnish - 6/15
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…
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Podcast Network
I did two podcasts for Podtech Network recently. This one is about the Apple Bloggers decision, and this one is about Network Neutrality.…
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"Hearsay Culture" Beginning a Roll
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…
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On the air with Dave Levine
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…
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Busy summer...
Oy vey. I've been asked to speak at some conferences coming up, and I'm also considering attending some other conferences, and I'm now looking at my…
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RoShamBo
Gregory A. Presnell, the US District Judge who had the thankless job of refereeing this discovery dispute, has a great solution to deciding the disputed locatio…