Net Neutrality for TWiTs

January 26, 2006

Episode #39 of the TWiT podcast has a great roundtable discussion of net neutrality – joining in for the session were Greg Zachary of Business 2.0, and Dane Jasper from the NoCal ISP Sonic.net, who’s also the President of the California ISP Association.

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“DRM is a Limitation That Limits Innovation”

January 24, 2006

Wired has an article that looks at the coming confusion as DRM and digital media arrive in the world’s family rooms at the same time. Gist: A similar system made by Sonos creates a mesh-wireless network that connects up to 32 remote amplifiers with music stored on a home computer, but the company hides music […]

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The Science of Partisanship

January 24, 2006

LiveScience nails the science behind partisan decision-making in politics: we’re wired that way – “The study points to a total lack of reason in political decision-making.”

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Non-Competes for Inhouse Counsel

January 24, 2006

IP Counsel Blog has an intriguing discussion about the use of non-competes with in-house counsel and the issues they raise in relation to professional conduct rules.

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Bulte Loses to Nash

January 24, 2006

And Cory, Techdirt, Michael, Mark, Nash and Bulte comment. Update: More commentary, from Joey and from David.

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More on the Growing Influence of Blogs in Politics

January 24, 2006

James McCarten of the Globe has the last word on the influence that blogging had on the election and on what lies ahead. Gist: “The Canadian political parties still view blogs as just another broadcast medium. They do not understand the power or the dynamics of blogs, and how they are changing politics,” [Mark] Federman […]

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Best. Election. Ever.

January 23, 2006

It spent too long in the gutter, but this is the first election in a while that has seemed to matter.

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Canadian Election Mashup

January 23, 2006

Chris Nolan’s election mashup is very cool.

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Practice Management Podcasts

January 23, 2006

David Maister, author of the excellent “The Trusted Advisor” and guru of professional practice management, is offering a series of free podcasts (and also has a blog). Via Larry Bodine.

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Web 2.0 for Lawyers

January 23, 2006

Dennis and Tom cover the basics and a lot more besides and provide a ton of useful links to boot.

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A Big Day on the Blog

January 23, 2006

It should come as no surprise that a mention on AndrewCoyne.com has my servers groaning and wheezing under the unfamiliar weight of all that referred traffic. There is blogging and then there is blogging.

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Taking a Page From the Copyright Lobby?

January 23, 2006

Or several, as it appears. Michael Geist has written the post that I wanted to on Liberal MP Sarmite Bulte’s Toronto Star article on Sunday (not yet online) expressing her views on copyright reform. As I read the article I began to get the distinct impression that I had read much of it before in […]

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