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Podcast Survey for Educators
Ann Beheler, Dean of Business, Computing, and Career Services at Orange Coast College and doctoral candidate, recently contacted me about podcasting in educatio…
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Apple says No to DRM? Maybe, if it only could…
Steve Jobs published on Tuesday this article on Apple’s website. It definitely deserves a comment. Not entirely without connection to inconvenient proceedings i…
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Grappling with the other side's best ideas, not their worst
Jonah Goldberg, on the NRO website: "...I'm basically burnt out on the smash-mouth stuff. When I criticize younger lefty bloggers for their excesses,…
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District Court Finds Failure to Demonstrate Circumvention of a Technological Measure in DMCA Claim Involving User Detection Feat
Plaintiff Auto Inspection Services, Inc. (“AIS”) owns the copyright to an automotive inspection program (“AIS’s Program”) that contains a quality control featur…
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Difference between Google Book Project and Open Content Alliance
This is a nice piece that describes the difference between the Google Book Project and the Internet Archive/Open Content Alliance Project to make book texts sea…
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A Funny Think Happened on the Way to the Forum of Ideas
I miss Zero Mostel. I wonder how he'd use laughter to ponder and probe our Web World of today and tomorrow, and how Zero would raise concerns about the Web…
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Bloggers "doing what bloggers do"
There's quite a bit of hullabloo on the internets today about two bloggers hired by the Edwards campaign to reach out to the online world, Amanda Marcotte a…
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National Day of Action for Open Access: Feb. 15
I received an email announcement from freeculture.org, "a diverse, non-partisan group of students and young people who are working to get their peers invol…
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Apple v Apple: Helter Skelter
Apple (computer) and Apple (records) announced yesterday they had once again (finally?) resolved their trademark dispute, which dated back to the formation of t…
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Turning point in copyright infringement cases
This is the most important thing that has happened on the intellectual property front lately. Former Soviet president Gorbachev asks Microsoft's Bill Gates…
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Controversy over free speech and NY attorney ad rules
Over at the Legal Blog Watch, Robert J. Ambrogi notes the recent controversy over new NY attorney advertising rules. This is an important issue that puts legal…
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Smug and insufferable
Charles Pierce on Alterman's blog: "Molly [Ivins] made a point often of how much she liked good politicians and believed in the political system {...}…