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Yes, we can.

05-Feb-08

Hope - Obama (Shepard Fairey poster) by Steve Rhodes. License:
Today is a unique day in my lifetime; a primary day where almost 1/2 of states are voting, but where the outcome is still very much in doubt. If you’re in one of those states, whether or not you agree with me about Obama, find [...]

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more software that rocks my world: Zotero

04-Feb-08

GTD Kitteh! by Karin Dalziel. License:
I’m doing a research project right now for a faculty member, and I’ve finally found the research software that I’ve wanted since my high school history teacher taught me to take great notes (good) on note cards (bad). The software is Zotero.
Zotero lets me take notes in a structured [...]

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“why should a customer care about IP assurance?”

03-Feb-08

Matt Asay asks “Why should a customer care about IP assurance?” He and Savio Rodrigues both make what appears to be the same error: comparing IP to “environmental rules or workplace safety regulations”. There is a critical difference, of course: if the EPA or comes after Microsoft, and I use Microsoft products, I can’t be [...]

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a vast flood of random web/legal curiosities

02-Feb-08

Hello ABA Journal readers. Welcome to my blog! You may want to look at the copyright license this blog is under, and my explanation of Why I Blog. You may also want to subscribe only to the law feed, since much of what I write about is technology or personal. Law feed posts are guaranteed [...]

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a message to overwhelmed friends; alt., why I love Tracks and GTD

01-Feb-08

Hipster PDA and GTD notes, tighter crop by Teo. License:
So, this was an all-too-common pattern in my life, prior to about 18 months ago:

get busy
lose some or all track of what is on my plate
feel guilty about not understanding what was on my plate; and never say no to more projects, in part because [...]

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summer internships at SFLC

29-Jan-08

Passing on an announce for other tech-interested proto-lawyers:
The Software Freedom Law Center is currently seeking legal interns to join the staff this summer.  Applicants should have a demonstrated interest in software freedom and should be conversant in legal and technical concepts related to free and open source software, but no specific prior course of study [...]

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worst kind of draining…

25-Jan-08

… food poisoning, or something a lot like it. And today was supposed to be a fun-ish friday… blah.

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sunstein on obama

20-Jan-08

I’ve told people that I support Obama in part because I’d rather gamble on someone who wants to lead 60% of the country than to be certain of another four years of someone who can at best lead 51% of the country. Cass Sunstein has some similar thoughts that may be worth reading if you’re [...]

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you know your law school textbook must be about a ‘modern’ topic…

16-Jan-08

… when it uses sans-serif fonts in the chapter headings. (In this case, ‘Electronic Commerce’, Mann and Winn.)

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wesabe ‘data bill of rights’

14-Jan-08

Wesabe’s Marc Hedlund is speaking at the Princeton Cloud Computing seminar I’m at. Their ‘data bill of rights’:
This Data Bill of Rights is our promise to you.

You can export and/or delete your data from Wesabe whenever you want.
Your data is your data, not ours. Our job is to help you understand and act on your [...]

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