2005.01.24 Show Notes

Today's podcast (MP3) discusses the sometimes uneasy relationship between bloggers and employers, as well as the corollary: how bloggers can improve the sometimes uneasy relationship between businesses and the world. I also check in on the continuing discussion concerning RSS and commercial or other unlicensed use, plug an event that hopes to turn lawyers into innovators, congratulate someone who's making the Technorati Top 100 safe for plawdcasters, and thank Doc (again).

• Getting "dooced"


• dooce.com; "I got fired because of dooce.com."


• Employment law blogs


• The Groove Networks weblog policy


• Microsoft Community Blogs: "You can use the directory below to find weblogs about Microsoft technologies written by Microsoft employees. Use these blogs to get insights and opinions about using (and creating!) Microsoft technology and software."


• Channel 9


• The Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility conference at Harvard; John Palfrey's recap; conference weblog aggregator


• Dave Winer's Morning Coffee Notes for January 13, 2005


• ZDNet's David Berlind, Can Technology Close Journalism's Credibility Gap?


• Beth Goza


• Phillip Torrone


• J. Craig Williams has it on good authority that Disney will blog


• Robert Scoble's Corportate Weblog Manifesto


• Marty Schwimmer's latest update regarding his Bloglines request: "[C]an aggregators accomodate bloggers who wish to maintain the non-commercial nature of their feeds? I will guess that if Bloglines offers a commercial opt-out, its business model will still work."


• Russell Beattie: "I've come to the conclusion that since commercial search engines and aggregators don't charge for the content they serve, they should not be subject to non-commercial licenses or general copyright infringement." Russell wonders about RSS use restrictions in the same post: "If the RSS license *required* you to allow syndication of that content for personal and commercial services in order to use that format, this would solve many of these problems."


• LexThink!, April 3, 2005, Chicago. "Many people always ask 'Why?' There are also some who ask 'Why not?' We're the second kind. How about you?


• LexThink! fodder: Moira Gunn's podcast with Frans Johansson (author of The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures) at IT Conversations


• Plawdcaster Bret Fausett, 80 on the Technorati Top 100. (The Volokh Conspiracy and Glenn Reynolds, 36 and 2, respectively.)


• FeedBurner: Using SmartCast with your feed


• Doc Searls; Doc Sears; The Baby Book; the sling; The Successful Child

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