Epitaphological

It's only taken me 40 years to stumble upon my epitaph, but this morning one spoke to me with perfect clarity: "She never took enough pictures." Be that as it may, here are some from yesterday's gathering at the Alpine Inn. Many thanks to Tony Perkins and the teams at AlwaysOn and Technorati, for the extraordinary company and free-flowing burgers, beverages, and fries (the crispy-waffly kind even, mmmmm). I had to leave too early to catch a plane home, but as this was just a warm up for the upcoming Innovation Summit (here's the final line-up), I hope to pick up the threads later this month. Seemed like there were quite a few folks there who will be at BlogHer too, including Lisa Canter, with whom I had great fun discussing copyright law (she used to work at the Harry Fox agency, and is understandably fascinated by recent developments) and swapping podcast recommendations.

Amazing Factoids

C|Net/ZDNet: "Researchers at The Diffusion Group predicted this week that the U.S. podcast audience will climb from 840,000 last year to 56 million by 2010." [Update:] More from BBC News.

Bob Shaver: "The twist grip for control of bicycle derailleurs was first popularized in the 1960s..." (Thanks to Steve Nipper for mentioning to his partner Bob my amazement at my new bike's slick shifting tech.)

Sue And Thuy Vu

Here's a story from Thuy Vu, a reporter with ABC News in San Francisco, on American business thriving in today's Vietnam. Click the video link to see, among other things, my aunt Sue — yes, she's really as tall as she looks, and she's really having that much fun.

Closer to home, there's always Little Saigon, pho sho'.

Commons Stock

Professor Lessig in BusinessWeek, about Grokster and its impact on Creative Commons: "If we had a stock price, our stock price would have shot up after the decision."

The Floundering Fathers

I can think of no better way to celebrate Independence Day than to enjoy the musings of Thomas Jefferson and his roommate Daniel (who I think might have had a bit part in "Dude, Where's My Car?") as they tour the legal blogosphere in Blawg Review #13.