Today's New Blawg

J. Craig Williams writes the May it Please the Court weblog for The Williams Law Firm, here in my adopted home town of Newport Beach (star of the dubious yet undeniably campy Fox drama, The OC). [Via the Blawg Ring] Craig's bio has more, including the fact he represented plaintiff-appellant Fonavisa in the Ninth Circuit's Fonavisa, Inc. v. Cherry Auction, Inc. case, subsequently relied on in the court's Napster decision.

Friday Pot Luck

Some sundry good stuff:

Kevin Heller's Tech Law Advisor turned one last week, and as a present it has a new look and some great current posts (permalinks not working but these are topmost now; Kev, there's the opposite of a "honeydo" for the weekend –fixed):

• JD's Unite and Takeover


• Kill All the Copyright Lawyers


• School's out for Summer


• Is this like the chewbacca defense?

IPKat continues to put the I in IP: "GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN — WITH SHOES."

The eminently cool John Battelle (of the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and bIPblog) will be moderating a panel on "Developing Successful E-Communities," November 3, 2003, at AD:TECH, New York.

The Sophorist, "Turning Consumers Into Slaves?:" "I'm not proposing we do away with capitalism. Capitalism is great. Let's just think about what we're doing when we hear talk of reforming all these laws that protect individuals."

Price-free, ad-free (for now, says Chad; text ads maybe further down the road, but nothing graphical or popup-ical) aggregation of AP top headlines, as well as legal, business, and
technology news, at detod news. (Weather too.)

Board The Wi-Fi Train

Starting in September, passengers will be able to ride and surf on the Altamont Commuter Express and Capitol Corridor train services in northern California. "'I think I'm going to cry, it's just so beautiful!' Web developer Sasha Akhavi of Oakland wrote on Traintalk, an Internet forum frequented by Capitol Corridor riders, after he heard the news." [Contra Costa Times, "Wi-Fi trial lets train riders log on from comfort of seats;" more from the AP; c | net News.com] According to these reports the service is expected to be free for the first three months, around $10/month thereafter.

Today's New Blawg

Matthew Stein writes Schteino, the Blog. [Via Blawg.org] Matthew just started law school at the University of Miami, armed with a tablet PC and, hopefully, considerable powers of concentration. (Ah, don't count on it: "I get the sense that if my liver wasn't already damaged, it will be by the time I graduate." Lucky cuss, what I wouldn't give for a beer about now. And a tablet PC would be fun to mess around with too...) Matthew's About page fills in some additional details.

Baby's First Gift From Mom

(Ok, it's really for me.)