Saturday, January 11, 2003
Coalesce
Jack Bogdanski provides a through-the-looking-glass look at how law school exams while away the holidays. He also is featured, along with b!X (who has a new "Portland Communique" blog), in an Oregonian article about blogging. The article mentions another blawger (Portland lawyer Matt -- "It turns out malfeasor IS a word!" -- Whitman) too, and questions (via Jack's quip) whether there is enough hard drive space in the universe to contain everybody's thoughts.
Kevin Heller has more thoughts about connections: "Lazyblawg."
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Friday, January 10, 2003
Sicknasty Marketing
Per another Bill Breen piece in this month's Fast Company ("Our Customers Can Sniff Through Any Kind of Hard Sell. And When They Do, They're Gone." ESPN Takes Retailing to the Extreme), ESPN has joined the ranks of Gonzo Marketers:
[T]he Disney Stores of the world are more about selling Winnie the Pooh underwear than about reaching customers in a genuinely new way. ESPN seems to understand that if it's not delivering a real, interactive experience -- if it's not sincere -- it will not succeed.
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Oh Give Me A Phone
Here are a couple of good links for checking in on CES, in full swing through Sunday, from BestStuff and c | net.
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And Now For Another Word...
Remember the Josie and the Pussycats movie, which split opinion on whether it was high irony, low advertising, or both? Well, the New York Times reports today that the WB is planning "a contemporary, hip Ed Sullivan show" with on-board commercials rather than periodic interruptions as a way to get ads past PVRs:
The hourlong program, to be broadcast for six weeks this summer, will try to highlight the companies' products in various ways, like putting singers on a set dominated by a logo or building comedy routines around a product.[via ILN] Something tells me there has to be a connection between this and the TiVo bicycle jersey (wide shot) -- which lets even the most amateur rider bask in the glow of a Kool Korporate Sponsor!
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Thursday, January 09, 2003
News And Olds
Many law students are back at it after winter break, and JCA is one of them. I've never met JCA (hope to), but know already she's a gifted writer, an incisive thinker and that she has a true passion for the law. Those things are going to take her far, but in the meantime she's got to survive law school. That can be about as fun as being handed SPAMMY the Pig as anasthetic and being asked to undergo a three year root canal, followed hard by the systematic extraction of every wisdom tooth under similar conditions (a.k.a. the Bar). I am confident she will prevail, but she might enjoy hearing that from you, too.
On her quite excellent weblog, JCA points to several of her fellow law students I had not previously encountered in my own travels. They and others join the blawgroll here today.
The Hose Monster knows how to put law school exams in their place. [via JCA]
Jeremy Blachman is at Hahvahd Yahd, and pretty damn funny. (I actually did number 9 on his list of "10 more" things not to do on the night before an exam. The story, and its happy ending, support my hypothesis that law school grades are governed largely by chaos theory.) [via JCA]
Jennifer is a 1L at Lewis & Clark, and this places her in some fine company. [via JCA]
Jerry Lawson started the brand new year with a brand new blog, Netlawtools, which seeks to help legal professionals use the Internet more efficiently. [via TVC Alert]
Stuart Levine is a Maryland tax and business lawyer. [via TVC Alert]
laborblog is the product of an Atlanta-based lawyer specializing in labor-management relations. [via The Blawg Ring]
Nerdlaw.org popped up in my referrals, and how could you not love a site for "Nerds At Heart?"
Last but far from least, I'm thrilled to see Sabrina Pacifici's beautiful new Movable Type blog, beSpacific, has been outed. (That is, if you indeed were ready to "fire," Sabrina! Even if not, the blog is more than worthy of prime time, IMHO.)
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Mitosis
Paco Underhill, in a Fast Company article by Bill Breen ("First You Get High on It, Then You Buy It."
Amoeba Music Marches to Its Own Beat), about Amoeba Music:
"Ultimately, Amoeba has turned the music industry's conventional wisdom on its head. The industry views music as a consumable product: You consume music in the same way that you'd drink a Pepsi. Amoeba thinks of music as a tradable commodity, a durable good that has long-term value."
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Propagation
My mom's not exactly a Luddite, but the most high tech thing in her home until last month was the CD player she reluctantly accepted as a gift a very, very long time ago (she loves it, is a huge opera fan). For Christmas, we introduced her to another form of spinning digital media with the help of this cute and well priced little DVD player. She gives it a top review for ease of setup, portability (she likes that she can bring it to her mom's and plug it in there), features and compatibility, though she thinks the remote has too many buttons. She also writes, in a card that reads, "The best things in life aren't things:" "My father built crystal set radios. Now I am operating a DVD!!" I share her wonder in that, and thought you might too.posted by Denise at 10:38 AM
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Wednesday, January 08, 2003
freECommerce
Congressman Cox and Senator Wyden have "introduced legislation to extend indefinitely the ban on new and discriminatory taxes on the Internet."
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ID'd
You've already seen Bret Fausett's recent New Architect article on digital identity issues -- right? How about the Digital Identity category Scott Loftness is keeping? Ok then.
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Duly Noted
Congratulations! to the eminently notable Kevin Heller.
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Camera Fund Closing
Here's a final link to the Doc Camera Fund, which tomorrow will wing its modest way to Sir Searls. (Wouldn't it have been nice to have his photos from Macworld?) Not too late to get in under the wire, but almost. Thanks to all who have participated and may yet.
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TiVo To See Your Macs (And The Media On Them)
Eric wants a new PowerBook, but I am so down with this ("TiVo, Brother & Aspyr Announce Rendezvous Networked Products"). If you haven't experienced Rendezvous, you can't fully appreciate how cool this could be. (Ugly truth: I'm kinda jonesin' for Keynote too.)
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Tuesday, January 07, 2003
The Pruf 's In The Rock
Interesting discussion (jocular aside -- when a lawyer calls something interesting, it's best to run) going on at Ernie's (here, here and here, and see the comments), about what comprises a useful legal weblog. A couple of quick thoughts. First, I agree with Po Bronson when he eloquently writes that "the human soul resists taxonomy." Second, I'll answer a question (are legal weblogs that stray from a defined "topic" of "use" in a law practice?) with a question -- or maybe it's a pop quiz in effective communication:
Ernie's weblog is widely read and appreciated primarily because:
1. It has a clever name.
2. It's practical.
3. It's a labor of love.
If you're wondering what my answer would be, there are some hundred visions and revisions we perhaps should discuss.
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Quarterflashes
DeCSS creation, distribution and use found legal in Norway. [via David Weinberger]
William Gibson blogs. [via Glenn Reynolds]
California selects a state quarter. (After you vote, you can see how the semi-finalist designs are faring. More here.)
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