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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr debunks the EFF analysis of the now dead Patiot II proposal from the DOJ. ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION ON THE CRYPTO-AS-A-CRIME PROPOSAL: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released an analysis of the now-dead-in-the-water leaked DOJ proposal that many have dubbed Patriot II. I haven’t read the whole EFF analysis,…

With the end of Q1 has come a slew of announcements from the major Democratic candidates about their fundraising efforts. Here are the totals: John Edwards: $7.4m John Kerry: $7m Richard Gephardt: $3.6m Joe Lieberman: $3m Howard Dean: $2.6mThose who read this blog regularly know I’m a partisan of Howard Dean’s, and his total –…

Erik Heels is now testing out Movable Type as a blogging platform for his law firm web site. In his latest post, he’s wondering what the ROI on the weblog app is. Based on a conversation at lunch today with Tom Mighell, I got to thinking about Erik’s experiment and decided to finally chip in…

E-mail from a fellow audience member during the “blawg” panel at TechShow: Rick, I’ve been reading your blog for a long time but it’s really neat to be in the same room with you and read it in real time. l guess they really don’t realize that you’re in the audience! Great job on the…

What app do you use? Tom uses pMachine, Sabrina uses Movable Type. Both Tom and Sabrina are talking about the value of meta-data (i.e., categorization) to posts to add value. One question from the audience – does your weblog app support multiple categories? MT does, Tom isn’t sure if pMachine does. (The pMachine site isn’t…

Tom and Sabrina are both wearing t-shirts with “BLAWG” written across their chests. Tom just explained the derivation of “blawg”, and gave credit to Denise Howell at Bag & Baggage for the origin of the term. Nice. (Maybe this means my shares in B&B will go up?!) Types of blawgs (Sabrina): AcademicPracticing AttorneysKnowledge ManagementLaw StudentsSites…

After explaining the basics of weblogs, Tom talked about the advantage of a distributed network of individuals who may represent better expertise than a media organization. One individual in the audience asked “how do you evaluate accuracy” when reading these sites? Sabrina pointed out that the same critical eye when evaluating news sites should be…

Session: Online Communities – From Bulletin Boards to BlogsPresenters: Tom Mighell, Sabrina PacificiIn attendance: 30 Tom started out talking about the history of online communities in the legal profession. (One note, Tom: Google bought DejaNews, not Usenet. Usenet’s the protocol, DejaNews was the commercial enterprise that archived Usenet posts. Google then went out and scoured…

Judge Richard Posner was the keynote speaker at ABA TechShow this morning. I tried to take as many notes as I could about the presentation… His talk was loosely focused on the role of law in the new economy. In his words, the product of the new economy is intellectual property. “The cardinal characteristic of…

It’s not on the scale of last month’s NYC meetup, but a terrific group of 14 Dean supporters showed up tonight in Naperville to discuss the campaign and find ways to help out. Thanks to those who showed up – and if you’re interested in learning more, be sure to visit the Dean2004.meetup.com web site for details…