Category: Uncategorized

I co-author (with Erik Heels) a monthly column in the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Magazine. This month’s column is what got me hooked on the blog craze. Even though I wrote it three months ago (don’t you love dead-tree turn-around times?), I think it still reads well. An upcoming column will explore the concept of…

Over the years, I’ve had a lot of fun making fun of Jupiter Communications (now known as Jupiter Media Metrix, after the merger of Jupiter and Internet “ratings” firm Media Metrix). For a couple years, you could always count on Jupiter to add a zero to any number that was a study about the Internet.…

The Financial Times is reporting that the Pentagon has asked for – and is likely to get – a requirement passed into law that any acquisitions over $100m of U.S. companies by foreign companies must first be reviewed and approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. The CFIUS (doesn’t anyone have a…

Just as a new upstart named Teoma shows up to try and challenge Google, Google reveals how things really work. (So I’m a little late on the April Fool’s stuff, but I was a bit preoccupied.) You gotta love a company willing to have some fun.

Jenny (ShiftedLibrarian.com) asked: Hey, Bruce and Ernie – [what] if this defense of the DMCA is allowed to fly…? And Ernie the Attorney responds with a great post about the issues confronted by both Washington and Hollywood on the DMCA. She is referring to the Assistant US attorney’s argument that, “in creating the DMCA, Congress did…

Announcing Robert Parker Klau, born March 31, 2002 at 2:14pm. Mom, Dad and big brother Ricky are all doing well. More later.

In early January, I wrote about the PowerPoint presentation that was spreading like wildfire around the Net (the comment is at the bottom; there’s also a USA Today story about it here). It was about two guys who tried to claim their “guaranteed room” at the Doubletree Club in Houston. Well, looks like they’re cashing…

The only possible reason he could be showing up in this C|Net interview is to try to rehabilitate his image, possibly to introduce yet another brilliant (ahem) scam on Internet users. Don’t know who Canter is? He’s half of the duo who introduced spam to Usenet back in 1994. One of his infamous posts is…

Talk about a lack of patience. Back in February, Evan Williams (co-founder of Pyra, and co-creator of Blogger.com) linked to my site. Within a few hours, Google was indexing my site daily. What a rush! But then March 7 rolled around, and I skipped a day of posting. By Saturday, Google had not only stopped…

This is the third time in a row that the “souvenir” I bring back from London is a sinus infection. Needless to say, I’m moving a bit slow. Hopefully the horse pills the doctor has me taking will get me back to normal by tomorrow. In the meantime, I’ll be taking it easy.