An interesting thing happened at a conference I was attending last week. The were three speakers giving talks to all the attendants (c:a 300 people). First up was the minister of communication (unexciting but well formulated explaining new broadband policy), the was James Boyle discussing Cultural Agoraphobia (an excellent presentation on the public domain). Finally [...]

Ryan Calo over at the Standford Center for Internet and Society (is this the new Berkman?) is asking some very interesting questions about the legal issues of web2.0 An Australian court rules that a mortgage company can issue notice of a lien over Facebook. A court in the UK permits an injunction to be served [...]

The many uses of twitter This one is from Scott Adams

When Lance Amstrong tweeted: “Hey LA — get out of your cars and get on your bikes. Time to ride. 7:30 tomorrow am. Griffith Park, LA Zoo parking lot. See you there.” His fans showed up! Read about the way in which Lance Armstrong is using twitter to communicate with his fans & take them [...]

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Twitter is struggling to overcome a denial-of-service attack, they wrote this five hours ago: We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly. Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack. Update (9:46a): As we recover, users will experience some longer [...]

A post on Slashdot this morning dealt with a juror who posted twitter comments about a trial (while it was in progress) and the effects of this may be to declare the trial a mistrial. “Russell Wright and his construction company, Stoam Holdings, recently lost a $12 million dollar lawsuit brought by investors. But lawyers [...]