Blogger Bill?

Robert Scoble, of course, just posted on this not 10 minutes ago, so hop on over there for lots more links: Microsoft's Gates Touts Blogging As A Business Tool. Great too that Microsoft.com has been Scobleized.

Playing With The New Blogger

So, here are the results for profiles specifying the "Law" industry in Blogger, and here's mine. The profiles generate some interesting stats based on the data Blogger has and what you put in, such as: I was born in the Year of the Snake, and to date have blogged 205,911 words.

The Once And Future Judge

Thanks to a deal struck yesterday concerning certain of the President's pending judicial nominees, things look promising for my colleague George Schiavelli's confirmation to the Central District bench. Congratulations, big guy!

Roll Credits

The folks at Fiat Lucre have a great looking program coming up — Fair Use In The Digital Age — good for 1.5 hours of California MCLE credit. It takes place on June 17 in Century City, and consists of the documentary Willful Infringement (screened at Media Tank's Creative Rights Conference last fall), followed by discussion and analysis of copyright and fair use.

Totally Unrelated, Totally Fascinating

David D. Smyth has an article in the Baylor Law Review entitled
A New Framework for Analyzing Gag Orders Against Trial Witnesses (PDF). David Hornik and I pay a visit in footnote 228 (there are 314 all told; don't you just love law review articles?), though there is much more interesting stuff going on here than David H.'s and my adventure at D: last year:

[T]he advent of the Internet and especially weblogs has erased the traditional split regarding First Amendment treatment of the media on the one hand and ordinary trial participants on the other. News media have traditionally been accorded greater First Amendment protection with respect to reporting on judicial events than other speakers receive. Now, because a witness's speech about a trial can easily take the form of a website post, the distinction between press and citizen-witness becomes much less significant, and the courts have less justification for granting lower protection to ordinary speakers than they do the media.

(Speaking of David H., please don't miss his Calendar Calisthenics Redux, in which David's CEO friend takes him to task most deliciously for whining a bit about the plight of the busy VC.)

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