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Category Archives: media

good news/bad news, journal blogging edition

23-Mar-08

good news: a post from my journal’s blog team made it all the way to slashdot.
bad news: slashdot (more specifically, the blog we’re nominally affiliated with) called our writing ’surprisingly readable.’ It’s sad that lawyers are supposed to be excellent communicators, and yet our training typically stilts our writing so much that it is surprising [...]

amazon mp3 payments to artists?

05-Mar-08

I’ve been scouring the internet for this information, but no luck so far, so I’ll ask here in hopes something will come of it.
Amazon is charging less (in some cases significantly less) for their mp3 music service than the same album in physical media. The question is: where is that reduced cost coming from? Out [...]

reminder: doing the right thing with CC licensed images in blog posts

11-Nov-07

I’ve been using a fair number of CC-licensed images in blog posts lately; I’ve had a lot of fun doing it- looking through and finding the pictures is often a blast. I’ve noticed others are doing more of this lately as well.

CC, by Franz Patzig, used under the CC-BY license.
Note that in all of the [...]

Notes from NYLS Amateur Hour

02-Nov-07

I’m spending today at a conference on user-generated content at New York Law School. Some notes from throughout the day. As usual, these come with the disclaimer that these are not direct quotes (unless I indicate them to be with quotes); as such you should not cite them as the words of the speaker, but [...]