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Future of Music
The FOM Policy Summit held earlier this month sounds like it was a an excellent event. But don't take my word for it... you can listen to many of the sessi…
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No Comments; But I'll Comment on the United Nations
At the moment, neither the comments link nor the archive are working. So, for those of you who are aching to comment on my blog, or to do a tasteful retrospect…
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Ode to the Stacks
As I write this entry, the background music being played is a cassette tape of Little Feat's classic live album, Waiting for Columbus. I've had the tap…
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More Fall to Grokster Ruling
Vnunet.com reports that P2P eDonkey is now shutting its doors. So, if you are keeping score, in the post-Grokster playoffs, its 2-0 in favor of the RIAA.…
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Authentication East and West
Yesterday the CIS and the Berkman Center collaboratively hosted a workshop on ID-Management centered around Microsofts proposal for an ID-Metasystem. Except a c…
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Professor Mark Lemley's Testimony on Copyright and Innovation in a Post-Grokster World
Professor Lemley's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee today on copyright law in the post-Grokster world contains a good summary of the question…
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USA Today Article on Patent Office Backlog
Kevin Maney at USA Today had an interesting article last week on the backlog at the PTO caused by insufficient numbers of patent examiners who are unable to kee…
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A Hunt for a Wedding Gift Leads to a Wedding Blog
These days, trying to figure out where a friend might be registered can lead you anywhere on the Internet. So it is tonight that such a search lead me to my ve…
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CIS is Hiring: Web Guru/ Communications Manager/ Interaction Designer
The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is looking to hire a Webmaster/ Interaction Designer, responsible for maintaining, updating, and e…
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Just Plain Funny -- Bug in "Madden 2006" Renders Jets' Lineman Seven Inches Tall
There is no blog-type software-bugs-are-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse commentary needed for this. Just check out these pictures, courtesy of CNet. Is this just pla…
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Musician Publishes Information on How to Break DRM on his own CD
According to vnunet.com, a member of the band Switchfoot published information about how to bypass digital rights management (DRM) technology for their most rec…
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nature of blogging
To anyone even remotely familiar with blogging, websites etc its pretty obvious that a blog isn't a formal statement by the blogger on ANYTHING. Even more…