May 2012
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“The critics of legal education are right. There are too many law schools and...”
– Frank Wu, the chancellor and dean of the University of California Hastings College of the Law, “which will admit 20 percent fewer students than in years past, a decision that required the college to eliminate several staff positions.”
More to come; this is the tip of a very large...
April 2012
6 posts
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“In the end, the Megaupload prosecution demonstrates that SOPA advocates are...”
– Professor Eric Goldman.
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Machinedrum - New Beats Teaser 2012.
Machinedrum...
“I wanted your first response to be a decline.”
– Never invite Ari to anything. (via alittlespace)
I like to set expectations low.
“In 2011, the USPTO issued a record number of utility patents – just shy of...”
– PatentlyO.
This is “innovation,” people, nothing to see here.
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“THR: What is the status of the Stop Online Piracy Act? Is the legislation dead,...”
– MPAA Chief Christopher Dodd Says SOPA War Isn’t Over, Defends Hosting Harvey Weinstein Even as He Attacked Over ‘Bully’
March 2012
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Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Troll’s Claim to... →
I worked on the defense side of this case (for Adobe) for a bit; it was one of my last cases as a patent litigator. The outcome is definitely a good (and important) thing for the open web, and it sounds like the trial was pretty interesting (at least for web history nerds).
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The Freedom to Innovate →
Innovation depends on keeping the costs of innovation down, making sure that financing is available, and making sure that markets are accessible. It does not depend on R&D grants or targeted industrial policy.
So the next time you see a piece of legislation that has an impact on an open Internet, software or business method patents, copyright enforcement, free and fair competition, open...
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“The surprising thing is that it really was cohesive,” Lil Internet said by...”
– New York Times.
I saw Lil Internet DJ a lot in Cambridge, when he was the artist then known as DJ REDFOXXX. I’m so proud.
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“The outstanding student loan balance now stands at about $870 billion,1...”
– Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The next debt bubble right here, folks.
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staff:
As we previewed a bit in the past week, we’ve been hard at work updating Tumblr’s policies, rewriting the three primary legal and policy documents that underlie your use of Tumblr: our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Community Guidelines (formerly “Content Policy”).
We’re really proud of the new documents. We think they’re easier to understand and better for you and our community....
February 2012
4 posts
“The decline in young home owners is a puzzling trend. Interest rates have...”
– Derek Thompson, “The End of Ownership: Why Aren’t Young People Buying More Houses?” (via theatlantic)
Let’s see.. Because we’ve lived through like three real estate bubbles, and we know that the value of houses doesn’t go up forever. We also know that the industry is rigged, and filled with...
Blogging Site Tumblr Makes Itself the News →
The popular social blogging site Tumblr is hiring writers and editors to cover the world of Tumblr.
Chris Mohney, a senior vice president for content at BlackBook Media, will be the site’s editor in chief. Jessica Bennett, a senior writer and editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, will be the executive editor and, she said, a kind of Tumblr correspondent.
“Basically, if Tumblr were a city of...
January 2012
13 posts
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“The commentary concludes that we simply can’t rely on any fossil fuel to...”
– ArsTechnica - We’ve hit “peak oil”; now comes permanent price volatility.
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“OK so back to my phone call. The first question I asked was “why does the...”
– Amanda Peyton.
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“Does that mean online piracy is harmless? Of course not. But the harm is a...”
– Julian Sanchez, Cato Institute @ Liberty.
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Reddit IAmA from Riot Games lawyer re SOPA →
Kudos to Riot for letting him do this (and to him for being brave enough to do it!). A quote:
We object to SOPA because it hurts how our users consume legitimate content on in the internet, and it makes it much harder to engage our community. That sucks - and we’re devoting a lot of time and brainpower as to how to stop this from happening.
And another:
This doesn’t hit us nearly as...
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“SOPA/PIPA absolutely will drive US dollars—and jobs—overseas. For...”
– Eric Goldman.
“The USPTO issued more utility patents in calendar year 2011 than in any year in...”
– Patently-O.
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xcom
notch:
xcom xcom xcom
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OMG, XCOM was one of my favorite computer games when I was a kid; pretty exciting if they pull it off properly.
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farandnearer:
i meant to post this earlier but better late than never. i went to see heathered pearls, ital, machinedrum, and sepalcure in brooklyn this past thursday!! so so much energy, i was in straight drunken euphoria. travis stewart and his mustache as machinedrum? GOTDAMN.
and then praveen sharma joined him for sepalcure… pure bliss. pure bliss. pure bliss. pure bliss.
I was at...
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“I’ve long thought that the biggest single problem in the world is the...”
– The Greatness of Ron Paul - Robert Wright - The Atlantic.
Whether or not you support Ron Paul, this is a really sharp observation and something we all should be doing more of.
December 2011
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“[T]he new iconic infrastructure of our age is the internet. Instead of division,...”
– Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Law professors Mark Lemley, David S. Levine, and David G. Post note, however, in response:
It would be not just ironic, but tragic, were the United States to join the ranks of these repressive and restrictive regimes, erecting our own “virtual walls” to prevent...
The nightmarish SOPA hearings →
There ought to be a law, I think, that in order to regulate something you have to have some understanding of it. And when people are saying things like, “This is just the rogue foreign Web sites” and “This only targets the bad actors” and “So you want universities to host illegal pirated versions of copyrighted content?,” it’s enough to make you claw out large fistfuls of your hair. No! No!...
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“Given all the foregoing, it perhaps shouldn’t surprise us that the attitude of...”
– Paul Campos - On Bullshit and Law Schools - Lawyers, Guns and Money.
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““Well, yes,” they’d have to say. “If you add code to the browser that implements...”
– Stewart Baker - SOPA-Rope-a-Dope - The Volokh Conspiracy.
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“Well, Frank Miller is someone whose work I’ve barely looked at for the past...”
– Alan Moore via NYMag Daily Intel.
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"That's how I roll." →
For those who don’t know, Buttermilk Channel is a rather upscale Southern food restaurant in Carroll Gardens (the cheddar waffles are amazing). Nowhere is safe, apparently.
A group of teenage goons attacked a 38-year-old on Court Street on Dec. 2, leaving him with a smattering of bruises.
The victim was having a cigarette outside of Buttermilk Channel near Nelson Street at 9:50 pm...
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“But even as the need and desire to enact some degree of Internet regulation has...”
– John Timmer - Setting smart Internet policy requires data we don’t have, aren’t getting - Ars Technica.
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“This suggests that nice guys finish last because people are subtly biased...”
– Jonah Lehrer - Do Nice Guys Finish Last? - Wired Science.
November 2011
27 posts
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“An injunction requiring Google to “de-list” sites is one remedy...”
– Technology & Marketing Law Blog.
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