Articles Posted in February, 2005

Blogger users can host their blogs whereever they like, but if they choose Blogger’s free BlogSpot hosting, a navigation bar appears across the top of the page. On that nav bar is a button labeled “next blog.” Click it, and you are taken to a randomly selected Blogger blog. Now comes word from lawyer…

In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is EPIC? Find out here.…

Always happy to find free stuff, I note that the electronic discovery company Fios is giving away paperback copies of its book, A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery. Just fill out this form. If snail mail is too slow for you, you can download the book in PDF…

Launched Jan. 28, InternetCases.com is a blog that will highlight some of the more interesting court cases dealing with issues relating to the Internet and new technologies.

It is written by Evan D. Brown, a Chicago lawyer who practices in the areas of intellectual property and computer-related law. “It is my goal — at…

Rory Perry’s Weblog reports on the new blog Electronic Filing & Service for Courts that tracks development and implementation of electronic filing projects nationwide. Says Rory: “David Darst of LexisNexis File & Serve is the blog’s author, and he does a good job of collecting news items from around the country related to…

Is the USA Patriot Act a critical component in bolstering our nation’s security or is it an indefensible infringement of our constitutional rights? With several provisions of the act set to expire at the end of 2005, the still-in-beta Patriot Debates will serve as a forum in which to debate whether they should continue.…

OK, this will be my first-ever and last-ever Michael Jackson post. But, celebrity aside, here is a rare opportunity to get an inside look at a grand jury proceeding. The always-digging folks at The Smoking Gun have posted what they say is the entire 1,903-page transcript of the grand jury proceedings that resulted in…

Dennis Kennedy delivered the news of Jerry Lawson’s tragic auto accident. Now Jerry follows with a photo of the car. Like Dennis, I’ve known Jerry a long time, and I wholeheartedly agree with Dennis’ statement: “I’ve never found anyone who ‘gets’ the implications of the Internet for lawyers (and others) more than Jerry…

Through sheer happenstance, I discovered the blogs Symtym and Patent Baristas with a couple days of each other. Their content could not have less in common. Symtym is described as “the meanderings of a board certified emergency physician at mid–career … who tumbled into law school … chasing health, law and technology rabbits.”…

In it simplest form, a blog is nothing more than a frequently updated Web page. So what is the line that divides Web page from blog? It is a question Bruce W. Marcus, publisher of The Marcus Letter, asks in his most recent article, Sez Who? Sez Me.The New World Of Blogging. Marcus…

“Because I only understand things by tinkering with them, I’ve decided to tinker with podcasting.” So explains Lawrence Lessig as he joins the ranks of lawyer/podcasters — or as Denise Howell calls them, plawdcasters.…

The OPEN Government Act filed today to shore up the federal Freedom of Information Act would appear to include bloggers as members of the news media and thereby protect them from excessive fees for document requests. I discuss how this is so at my Media Law blog.…