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Ridiculing civility

The New York Times had an interesting article over the weekend talking about the tense stalemate that exists between liberals and conservatives in everyday inte…

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Piecing our country back together

Andrew Sullivan is one of the most thoughtful bloggers out there, and if you haven't seen what's been going on in his thinking lately it's worth che…

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Fewer guns, more talk

From an article by Miriam Pemberton in Foreign Policy in Focus: "In 2000, the Gallup organization recorded a 65% majority among Republicans, Democrats, an…

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Happy Halloween!

This is my sister's cat, Homer. She says he's a ham. I say he's a cat. (c) 2006 Gabriela Vogele This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons A…

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Digital freedom campaign

The Digital Freedom Campaign website appears to be a good resource about an important movement... I haven't gotten through all the things they are proposing…

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The DMCA at work

YouTube taking down content in response to notices of infringement. (Down comes John Stewart, Colbert Report, South Park, etc. at the request of Comedy Central.…

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Webcastng, SoundExchange, and more

The reason I was invited to this conference is because I've assisted CBI in the copyright proceeding now before the Copyright Royalty Board in which the web…

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podcampwest

The organizers are getting things organized. PodCampWest will be at the Swedish American Music Hall on 11/18-19. It'll be fabulous and I wouldn't miss i…

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court opinions citing blogs

By way of the Legal Blog Watch, I came across this list today that contains a running citation list of court opinions that have cited to blogs. Thank you Ian Be…