Friday, September 19, 2003 at 6:15PM Buzz Bruggeman is blogging DemoMobile (and presently motoring up from San Diego to say "hey"). Meanwhile, Gary Turner reflects on the growing need to calendar his "parallel event participation activities:" "[P]lease register your non-attendance at Digital ID World 2003 in the Comments of this post below..."
Friday, September 19, 2003 at 10:38AM Thanks to Larry Solum for providing his insights on yesterday's argument of United States v. Oakland Buyer's Cooperatives, the medical-marijuana case, to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Appellate oral arguments are seldom transcribed or reported, yet they are a unique learning experience and window into the judicial decision making process. The panel hearing the case in Larry's post consisted of Chief Judge Schroeder, Judge Silverman, and Judge Reinhardt. (If you too are a fan of this sort of thing, I blogged the oral argument to the California Supreme Court in Pavlovich v. Superior Court awhile back.)
Steve Covell has started a promising independent Blogger Forum, for users of Blogger's weblogging tools. Of course, it also has its own blog covering ideas and issues related to blogging. Here's Steve's cogent response to concerns that weblogs might create too great an information risk to be useful business tools: "There is no more danger in leaking sensitive company information in a blog then there is leaking information at a cocktail party. And consider this: you can edit a blog. You can't edit what you said last night after four martinis."
Friday, September 19, 2003 at 9:19AM You may remember Alex Wellen as the co-creator, executive-producer, and co-host of TechTV's CyberCrime program. He currently is an independent producer and writer, and has just published his first book: Barman.
Savvy and entertaining, Wellen's story is The Paper Chase meets Sex and the City—a career memoir for anyone who has discovered his or her life's goal, yet must overcome tremendous obstacles to attain it.
I'm looking forward to reading this, and since it opens in the middle of interview season its publication is well-timed. ("Braise reminded me of the Cheshire cat from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. At first I found his demeanor a nice change of pace, but by the third or fourth question, I wanted to smack that exaggerated grin right off his face.")
If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, you're in luck—several events are scheduled for the next couple of weeks:
Stop by and say hi, Alex is a great guy and I understand he has been known to read a blawg or two.
Friday, September 19, 2003 at 9:06AM Without a Net is the new blawg of a first year law student navigating the shoals of legal academic life, and finding solace in small things: "For now, if you are a current law school student or an attorney with access to Lexis or Westlaw, look up Haslem v. Lockwood. 37 Conn. 500 (1871). Sued over a quantity of manure." [Via JD2B]
Thursday, September 18, 2003 at 3:00PM Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day! [via AKMA] Some glittery treasures for ye:
