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…
I have a comment on the NYT Room to Debate forum Google or China: Who Has More to Lose? praising Google's decision not to censor search results on .cn but r…
I had a long interview this morning with the Christian Science Monitor . Like many of the interviews I’ve had this year, the subject was Google. At the incr…
The closely watched battle over the use of trademarks as keywords for purpose of triggering advertisements on Google’s search result pages (AdWords) reached hig…
Well, I have little to add to the nattering nabobs out there, but I'm pleased we passed it. As to the post-script, I'm with E.J. : "By temperament…
There's an app for everything these days. But users often don't have a complete picture of the applications they download and use. Privacy policies are…
Reading through Italian news coverage of the Google Italy case, another picture emerges. User privacy may well be at issue, but not in the way you probably thi…
Brooks today: "...people are usually pretty decent to one another when they relate person to person. The odd thing is that when people relate group to grou…
I'm enjoying a few days at SXSW to explore the latest things that are going on in the interactive space. I'm enjoying it and tweeting my impressions/tho…
Howell Raines in the Washington Post: "Under the pretense of correcting a Democratic bias in news reporting, Fox has accomplished something that seemed im…
I'll be at the Santa Clara coffee party on Saturday. Hope to see you all there! http://coffeepartyusa.com/ "MISSION: The Coffee Party Movement gives…
Brooks in today's NYT: "In a sensible country, people would see Obama as a president trying to define a modern brand of moderate progressivism. In a se…
I'm quoted briefly in a story today in E-Commerce Times (see “Apple’s Patent Attack: This Too May be Overhyped” by Erika Morphy) about the patent lawsuit fi…