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The "Myth" of natural human goodness
David Brooks column on Sunday really agitated me. It's thesis: "Sometimes a big idea fades {...} until it has almost disappeared. Such is the fate of t…
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Exploring the "online disinhibition effect"
I'm a big fan of Daniel Goleman, and he has an interesting piece in the New York Times this morning: "...[there is] a larger pattern plaguing the world…
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Evan is podcasting again!
I just discovered that Evan Brown has started up his Internet Cases Podcast again. Episode 25 comes after a 1-year hiatus and he jumps in with a quick discussio…
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Remix and Fairness
Professor Robert Merges has commented recently on the remix debate, making the point that present copyright law should not be fundamentally changed in order to…
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Victory in Shloss v. Estate of James Joyce
We won an important victory over the Estate of James Joyce's motion to dismiss last week in Shloss v. Estate of James Joyce. The Estate had moved to dismis…
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Internet at the next Ocean Tomo IP Auction
For the past year I’ve tracked the series of Ocean Tomo Patent / IP Auctions. The third in the series occurs April 2007 in Chicago, and I just received the cat…
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From Obama's announcement
It's clear he understands the importance of healing the divide: "...it's not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me the most. It's the…
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Politics and personality
From an interesting article in the Times by Patricia Cohen: "For anyone who assumes political choices rest on a rational analysis of issues and self-intere…
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William Arkin on Demonization and Responsibility
Washington Post blogger William Arkin created quite a dust up as a result of his post from last week suggesting that the troops should be grateful that we respe…
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Jeff Rosen on the Daily Show
Last night my old constitutional law professor, Jeffrey Rosen, appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, perhaps one of the best comedy programs on televisio…
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Upcoming User-Generated Content Audio Conference
On March 29, 2007, I'll be one of the speakers for this webaudio conference relating to User-Generated Media issues, offered by Pike & Fisher. Here are…