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Caught over at The Volokh Conspiracy, check out this wonderful example of judicial common sense: FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN HYPERPHRASE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC and HYPERPHRASE INC., ORDER Plaintiffs, 02-C-647-C v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Defendant. Pursuant to the modified scheduling order, the parties in this case had until June 25, 2003 to file summary judgment motions.…

Up2Speed: mLife Dies, AT&T Won’t Admit It Stunk AT&T’s fuzzy and conceited mLife campaign was taken behind the barn and shot. Presumably by a smiling 30-something in high-contrast colors carrying a cell phone. One of the worst-conceived campaigns ever to soak up $120 million finally died, with AT&T’s firing of Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) and…

Maximizing The Power of Blog Software Interesting ideas from A Whole Lotta Nothing [via Dennis Kennedy] on getting the maximum value out of Movable Type: “It’s pretty common for people new to weblogging to embrace the simplicity of publishing, and crave it in the rest of their tools. Once you start blogging and the pain…

David Weinberger is enthusiastic about Governor Dean’s guest-blogging over at Larry Lessig’s blog. David asks, “Has any presidential candidate ever in history been dropped into a free-for-all quite like this? Could it be any more different than Bush’s scripted press conferences and tailored, crotch-enhancing photo opps? Democracy just got a little real-er.” The conventional wisdom…

MSNBC.com — Dean gets help from D.C. insiders But as improbable as it would have seemed three months ago, some Capitol Hill political realists have now accepted — even embraced — the notion that Dean will end up as the Democratic nominee. “I want to beat Bush and I think Dean is the best guy…

I got interviewed by a reporter for the Boston Globe last week. She’s writing about the grassroots support building around the Dean campaign, and I stressed that a major contributing factor to the momentum is the growing sense of community that individuals are feeling once they get involved. To that end, if there’s anyone who…

Talk about a forced analogy: Peer-to-Peer Politics – Should Howard Dean be a little bit afraid of the Internet? By Chris Suellentrop What did file swappers do after Napster went down? They turned to Gnutella, a system that doesn’t require a central broker. Dean wants to be Napster, but his supporters are more like Gnutella:…

Lots of interest over at Slashdot now that Governor Dean will be guest-blogging at Prof. Larry Lessig’s blog while he’s on vacation. No entries from Governor Dean yet – he is probably wrapping up at the NAACP conference and I imagine he’ll check in later tonight.

My wife bought me Enter the Matrix for Father’s Day (yes, she really is that cool) and I’ve been enjoying it quite a bit the last few weeks. I’m not a gamer (in my opinion, games went downhill after River Raid for Atari), but found the mix of action and plotlines to be kind of…

CIO | Cleaning Up Your Act Lots of quotes from yours truly about the impact of dirty data on a firm’s software initiatives, the need for process improvement as well as technology improvement, etc. It’s a great article – Sue Bushell really did a nice job of going beyond the sound bites.