Year: 2002

Blog Appeal I heard last night from Howard Bashman, who heads the appellate group at Buchanan Ingersoll – and has a blog. Howard writes an appellate practitioner column, and observes that “[a]ppellate lawyers usually labor in obscurity, but the Internet no longer makes that as easy as it once was.” True enough – through Howard…

Create custom experimental XML feeds. Radio’s RSS writer is now user-extensible. The RSS writer in Radio is now officially user-extensible. “Before generating the RSS, we check user.radio.callbacks.writeRssFile,“ Dave writes today. Excellent. This will open the floodgates for all sorts of useful metadata experimentation. We’ll see Radio UserLand sites emitting RSS 1.0, and others extending RSS…

Trivia question: what acquisition is referred to below? Indeed, last year Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jonathan Joseph summed it up when he said: “It will go down as one of the best acquisitions in the history of the computer industry.”Post your guesses in the comments box. I’ll post the answer later today.

I’m not ashamed to admit I’m hooked on The Amazing Race. Have been since about the third episode of the first Amazing Race. And I was sad to see Oswald and Danny get eliminated tonight. For those who haven’t been watching religiously (shame on you!), this is yet another reality show. For whatever reason, this…

In response to my post from a week ago, Greg Harmeyer responds: While an interesting hypothesis, I’m not sure I buy the idea that people don’t collaborate because it reveals the weakest links.  By that logic, the strongest links would collaborate and a sort of Prisoner’s Dilemma would cause all to collaborate as much as…

Study: PVRs Not Necessarily the Death of TV Advertising: Ad Age, the leading advertising industry magazine, brings word of a recent marketing study that finds that PVRs aren’t as bad for television advertising as some (cough* Kellner*cough) would have you believe. [LawMeme: Legal Bricolage for a Technological Age]My own experience with TiVo mirrors many of…

Visit Disinchanted’s site to see how this works: every time someone links to them, they create reciprocal links back to those sites, sometimes including editorial comments about the sites you’ll be visiting. It’s a little tricky to explain, but once you see it, it should make sense. this adds tremendous context to their site (by…

COPYRIGHT FOREVER: I’m off to Warner Brothers to debate my former boss, the inimitable Judge Alex Kozinski, about the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act — the Supreme Court will be considering its constitutionality soon in Eldred v. Ashcroft. I’m not completely sure that the law ought to be struck down, but that’s the position…

Thanks to Dave, Tim Jarret and InstaPundit for the flow. I understand that US media outlets are lumping Pim Fortuyn with Le Pen in the same scentence even. They are misinformed and have done inadequate research. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]I’ll admit I didn’t know anything about Pim Fortuyn before yesterday. And initial reports I…

To download the Internet CLICK HERE. [Sam Ruby]The solution to our knowledge management challenges [McGee’s Musings]Classic.