The Ongoing Net Jurisdiction Tug Of War

Some links this morning on the Net jurisdiction front:

The Financial Times: U.S. Court May Take Internet Jurisdiction Case [via ILN]
[Update: Nope. Cert denied (PDF).]

Michael Geist looks looks at tech law trends for 2003 in The Toronto Star: Courts Poised To Decide Internet 'Borders' [via ILN]

Declan McCullagh reports on District Judge Wilson's 46-page ruling that an Australian software company could be sued in California: Judge: Kazaa Can Be Sued In The U.S. [via Dan Gillmor]

Dan Gillmor had this cogent critique last month of the Australian high court's recent Net jurisdiction decision.

Coalesce

Jack Bogdanski provides a through-the-looking-glass look at how law school exams while away the holidays. He also is featured, along with b!X (who has a new "Portland Communique" blog), in an Oregonian article about blogging. The article mentions another blawger (Portland lawyer Matt -- "It turns out malfeasor IS a word!" -- Whitman) too, and questions (via Jack's quip) whether there is enough hard drive space in the universe to contain everybody's thoughts.

Kevin Heller has more thoughts about connections: "Lazyblawg."

Sicknasty Marketing

Per another Bill Breen piece in this month's Fast Company ("Our Customers Can Sniff Through Any Kind of Hard Sell. And When They Do, They're Gone." ESPN Takes Retailing to the Extreme), ESPN has joined the ranks of Gonzo Marketers:

[T]he Disney Stores of the world are more about selling Winnie the Pooh underwear than about reaching customers in a genuinely new way. ESPN seems to understand that if it's not delivering a real, interactive experience -- if it's not sincere -- it will not succeed.

Oh Give Me A Phone

Here are a couple of good links for checking in on CES, in full swing through Sunday, from BestStuff and c | net.

And Now For Another Word...

Remember the Josie and the Pussycats movie, which split opinion on whether it was high irony, low advertising, or both? Well, the New York Times reports today that the WB is planning "a contemporary, hip Ed Sullivan show" with on-board commercials rather than periodic interruptions as a way to get ads past PVRs:

The hourlong program, to be broadcast for six weeks this summer, will try to highlight the companies' products in various ways, like putting singers on a set dominated by a logo or building comedy routines around a product.

[via ILN] Something tells me there has to be a connection between this and the TiVo bicycle jersey (wide shot) -- which lets even the most amateur rider bask in the glow of a Kool Korporate Sponsor!