Mom-entary Flashes

Kids can teach you a great many things. Like who Hap Palmer is, and how certain of his songs can cling to your synapses like neural peanut butter. And that there's a mommy blog ring. (Thanks Jonathan and Eve). And that strawberry ice cream's not for breakfast anymore.

To name a few.

This 1/2 Year's New Blawg

Okay, so I've gotten a trifle blasé about those daily weekly bi-weekly formerly semi-regular updates to the blawgroll, and associated posts. This is not because I don't cherish each new legal weblog as though it were my very own firstborn...oh, wait, that is why! You'll thus rightly conclude from my coming forth with a "new blawg" post that 1) the baby's asleep (how do they get by on so little sleep??? I'm fairly certain no one's spiked his rice cereal with Red Bull...), and 2) Will Work For Favorable Dicta is a keeper. And I'm not just saying that to avoid a lethal splat from the Energy Spatula.

Feeds And Foods For Thought

Anthony Paonita has an article in Corporate Counsel on law related sites with RSS — Feeding Time — in which he notes my undiagnosed and untreated ADHD (though he generously refrains from calling it that) and somewhat spotty RSS feed. So although this may violate or ignore certain "garbage in, garbage out" principles, I just ran my existing RSS 0.91 feed through FeedBurner, with the desired effect of not breaking existing subscriptions yet giving new subscribers more options. The new feed is here, and if you prefer a stripped down summary version, it's here. Note the old feed still works. Your feedback (sorry) is most welcome. (In his article, Anthony mentions parenthetically but interestingly that "Corporate Counsel's Web site, corpcounsel.com, and its sibling site, law.com, should have an RSS feed by early summer.")

Visitworthy:

• Matt Haughey on Music Licensing and American Idol


• David Weinberger on Five Years of Cluetrain [Via Marc Canter]


• The Ninth Circuit Judicial Council on e-discovery


• Mary Bridges on this week's hearing in Capitol Records et al. v. Alaujan [Via Politech]


• Tom Blog's Blog


• Michael Lowe has a new project that should prove helpful should you ever need to expunge or seal Texas criminal records.

Some Dos And Don'ts

Do:

Check out the new (v. 2.0) Creative Commons licenses.

Issue a Blogger Pass to your conference (which Tony Perkins is doing again).

Rethink the HTML — whether it works just isn't an issue if it's kept on the Web and out of the mail. (Yeah, yeah, my predilections and biases are showing again. Ideally everyone should have the choice.)

Don't:

Abandon your old Blog*Spot domain!

A Nickname In Six Acts (And Counting)

I'll be busy the next few days squiring the baby around to some grandfolk in Northern California. Though we haven't yet gotten around to calling him Gnudist, the poor little guy's name definitely is a moving target:

Tyler »

Tae Bo® »

Beau »

Boo »

Boo Radley »

Rad.

Goodness knows by the time I get back next week we'll probably have figured out where to go from a large drugstore chain. 'Til then I'm offline.