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Judith Meskill has set up a corporate weblogging elevator pitch contest. We are hosting the collaborative space for the judges to evaluate the pitches; it should be interesting. I look forward to seeing the entrants: from pitching a former employer on the concept to presenting on the subject at conferences, I’ve discovered that actually getting…

Air America is now live, with the “O’Franken Factor” playing live (requires Real Player).

Back in December, Joe Rospars posted to the Dean blog about sending care packages to the troops. The post linked to AnySoldier.us — a clearinghouse for how to send care packages to soldiers serving in Iraq. That afternooon my wife put three large care packages together of toilettries, books and other assorted items and we…

Unreal. Candace Parker, the two-time Naismith Player of the Year, won the dunk contest at the McDonald’s All American Boys and Girls Games. The catch? This wasn’t the girls’ competition. She beat the guys. Last year’s winner? A guy you might have heard of: Lebron James. Candace played her high school ball less than a…

Great cover story at Salon.com by Scott Turow on Barack Obama — [Obama] may become the first black Democrat able to rise above race in the fashion of Powell and Rice, and in doing so become the embodiment of one of America’s most enduring dreams.

Why chase ambulances, when the ambulances come to you online? It turns out that ambulance chasing lawyers have found a much more effective method of going after clients: they have local sheriffs email them a daily list of who’s been arrested – including their home addresses. Some services even promise to send out letters based…

MoveOn.org has a new book out: 50 Ways to Love Your Country. It’s currently #2 at Amazon.com; help make it #1! From the book description: With more than 2 million members, MoveOn is at the cutting edge of a new model for political activism. In their first-ever book, they take their message offline with MoveOn’s…

Healthy baby boy delivered at 1:50 a.m.Saturday! More at www.barbandroland.com soon. I will be off until April 12th. Email, blogging, etc. will take a back seat until then! [Roland Tanglao’s Weblog] Nothing like those first few days with a little one in your life. Congrats to Roland and his wife Barb. And start checking the…

Just booked our tickets on the City of New Orleans train down to Nawlins. I’m best man in my best friend’s wedding in May, and Robin and I decided that a trip with the kids on the train would be a blast. (No, really!) When I told my four year-old that we’d be taking a…

So…anyone know why, on the new Google Local search, when you do a search for “porn” and your zip code, you get a “bunch of results for lawyers”:http://local.google.com/local?sc=1&q=porn&near=98101&btnG=Google+Search&sl=1? [eclecticism] This is a riot. And I just showed it to Jason Krause, the tech reporter for the ABA Journal. We might be seeing more about this……