What Do You Get When You Put 5 Blawgers On A Podcast?

This week's episode of Coast to Coast, hosted by J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi, and featuring Howard Bashman, Ernie Svenson, and me as guests. The topic is "Blawgging at Big Law Firms." You can download it here, and subscribe to Coast to Coast by adding this feed to your podcatcher of choice.

Anticip....ation

Check out this very cool blog on The Future of Media from The Emerging Media Lab. Looks like a place Cory Doctorow will have to check out while he's sojourning here with us in SoCal. I'll be excited to visit the lab myself next week.

[Update:] More on the Emerging Media Lab from the New York Times.

Today's New Blawg

Enjoying: The TechKnowledgy Blog, by Tim Feathers and Steve Consentino, both of Stinson Morrison Hecker.

[Disclosure:] Techknowledgy Blog co-author Tim recently interviewed me for an article on blawgs he's writing for the KC Counselor, but I've been intending to highlight his blog since he first pinged me about it early last month. He let me know yesterday it was officially "live."

Fair Game

We missed the Orange County Fair this year, but not so, many others. Thanks, Mark Frauenfelder, for the reminder.

Back To The Mashup Board

In connection with this article on mashup culture, Art and Marketing All Mashed Up, the Washington Post is encouraging readers/users to create and submit a clever video mashup. Great idea, clueless execution. Specifically, per the applicable Terms and Conditions:

• Forget about parody; permissible mashable material includes only "footage of [the User], or a friend or associate." Material that is "derogatory" or "generally offensive" (try narrowing/defining those, if you dare) is also verboten.


• You make it, you don't own it: "User agrees to grant and assign all right, title and interest in the Recording to WPNI."


• And, just in case there's some risk the Post hasn't managed to affirmatively limit: "User agrees to indemnify WPNI, its parents, affiliates and agencies and respective officers, employees, managers, agents, successors or assignees, from any and all claims, damages, causes of action or injuries that result from, or are related to, WPNI's publication or use of the Recording, including any claims, damages or causes of action that arise due to the content within the Recording."

Terrific, I'll get right on that. (Or perhaps I'll just write the Post into my estate plan, it'd be more straightforward.) Apparently there was a Q&A about the project, but whatever it is or was, it's behind the Post's registration wall. And no one has posted to Post Remix, "The Post's Official Mashup Center," since May.

[Update:] Professor Lessig has dubbed this sort of strategy "A Sharecropper Vision of Creativity." I'm also able to access the Q&A now (dunno why, I was getting the login screen before), and nothing there touched on these issues.

[Update:] Wonkette read the fine print too, and writes: "You know what that means. We'll have our own contest. With only videos that are offensive, threatening, defamatory, or libelous."

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