mesh gets Skype love

May 5, 2006

Thanks to Jim Courtney at SkypeJournal for a very nice post about us yesterday. And also to the inestimable Miss Rogue, for one earlier this week. (Blush)

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On Copying Other Legal Documents

May 5, 2006

The WSJ’s law blog features a discussion of the application of the U.S. fair use doctrine to copying by lawyers of other legal documents – in this case, court filings in lawsuits.

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Swollen Reservoirs of Data

May 5, 2006

Greg Knauss describes the backlog of data that accompanies the modern life. To his list of the data that awaits I would add – 10 hours of new Podcasts queued up in iTunes.

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My New Disclaimer?

May 4, 2006

I’m so impressed with the artistry of this disclaimer that I may just have to find a way to work it into the technology contracts I draft.

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Huffington on Net Neutrality

May 4, 2006

Arianna Huffington’s post on neutrality is the first original bit of writing on the topic I’ve seen in weeks.

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The mesh 15 Minutes of Fame

May 4, 2006

We started mesh because we wanted to help develop the Toronto and Canadian Web 2.0 community, and from the get-go that idea has been perched on all of our shoulders, guiding the decisions we’ve made as we come to the event. One of the fun pieces has been to organize a showcase of interesting ideas […]

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What He Said

May 4, 2006

I’m (once again) in violent agreement with Mathew on the mysterious case of the ad agency suing a blogger, though I think my post would be less – um, chaste in its choice of language directed at the agency. Echos of the Apple case – a fortiori, to be sure.

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A Soapbox for Your Thoughts

May 4, 2006

Jeff Jarvis liveblogs from the We Media conference on yet another interesting address from Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters (notice that Jeff doesn’t kvetch about unconferences when he’s listening to Glocer?). This passage in particular got my attention: He emphasizes the speed at which both development and debate are evolving. He’s quoting lots of Technorati […]

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More Threats from Apple

May 4, 2006

I’ve been mystified lately by Apple’s inclination to sue first and ask questions later – Think Secret’s disclosures being the most visible example. Oops, they’ve done it again – this time going after a forum for posting material on the now widely reported problem some MacBook Pros have with heat, and how one user lowered […]

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Apple Promoting Business Podcasting

May 3, 2006

It stands to reason – to sell iPods, sell podcasts: news that Apple is actively promoting business podcasting. You could read the article. But you could also come to mesh and get engaged in the conversation about the role that podcasting and other Web 2.0 technologies are playing in transforming marketing (and a lot more […]

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More CBC Podcasts

May 3, 2006

CBC has added new podcasts, including one by their gift to thinking people everywhere (now, more than ever, everywhere) Anna Maria Tremonti’s The Current.

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No Means No

May 2, 2006

For the life of me, I can’t understand why politicians think I shouldn’t have the right to opt out of telemarketing calls. Alec Saunders nails my thinking on the issue. If I’ve gone to the trouble to opt out, my government should accept that I know what I want, and that I don’t need government […]

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