Join us Monday For A Public Conference Call On The Law Of Business Communities

In connection with our session at the the upcoming Community 2.0 conference, law professor Mike Madison and I will be hosting a public conference call on Monday, February 26 beginning at 1:00 p.m. PST, and we'd love your participation to help us hone in on the ownership considerations (IP; attention; identity), and issues of governance and liability, most critical to the creation, maintenance, and long-term health of business communities.

The call will be recorded and made available as a podcast from The Future of Communities blog. You can join us as follows:

From Skype: +990008275785861

From a regular phone (long distance costs apply):
US: 1-605-475-8590

In Europe, call:
Germany 01805 00 7620
UK 0870 738 0763

The Conference Room Number: 5785861

Hope to chat with you then.

(Cross-posted to Lawgarithms and Between Lawyers)

[Update, Monday 2/26 @ 1:15 p.m.:] Unfortunately, we had problems with the conferencing service lined up to support this, so are having to reschedule. I'll post the new date, time, and call-in details once they're available, sorry for the delay.

Flunking Play Group

Parenting is perpetually eye-opening. I'm learning that when when you have a child who is

• independent


• impetuous


• effervescent


• physically affectionate


• attention loving


• alert


• energetic


• curious and


• unrestrained,

it turns out from an educational standpoint the flipsides of those shiny, pretty coins are

• intractable


• wild


• frenetic


• violent


• selfish


• agitated


• overwrought


• disorderly and


• out of control.

Maybe much growing up just naturally takes place between the younger years and the commencement of sit-down-and-learn-something, dammit, actual school. Maybe we need a change of environment and approach. But my heart is beginning to go out to all those parents who must pursue dozens of such changes in the perhaps ultimately vain hope of finding someplace, and an infrastructure of someones, who behold the same small person the parents do, and banish the spectre of "something wrong" from the equation and classroom.

Useless But Vital

Box spring covers.

Nor, To My Knowledge, Am I

Glad we got that straightened out.

Current Event

Current.tv = finally something on the tube I can watch.

The Talk-Soup-meets-Google Zeitgeist clips are a bit much, but still — would you rather tune in to Lou Dobbs? Otherwise, everything I've seen so far has been good.