'Morning, Coffee
Juicy morsels from Sabrina Pacifici of llrx:

~The Google Blog: Two great tastes that taste great together. Lists top stories from news organizations, by category, and lets you search them. In Beta.

~Business Week takes on Hollings, in commentary by Alex Salkever: "The proposed cure is far worse than the disease...Yes, the law does have a provision for Fair Use, the legal precedent that awards consumers some rights to replicate copyrighted materials, either for academic reasons or for personal use. But Fair Use protections in the bill remain vague. At the very least, they would have to be toughened."

~Tim Berners-Lee on "The Semantic Web:" "Suppose you're on the Web and find a conference you want to go to...You would prefer, when you see the notice of an interesting conference, to just say: "O.K., I want to go," and everything will get taken care of, automatically. All the entries will pop into your agenda, your address book, your GPS. Then you'll get pinged by your agenda when it's time to leave, because it knows from your GPS how long it will take to drive there. And, in addition, it will block out the driving time on your schedule and alert you if you try to make a conflicting appointment."

~California Supreme Court will review Intel spam trespass case: The Court will examine whether former Intel engineer Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi committed trespass by sending tens of thousands of emails to Intel workers.

Top Ten Signs Of A Microcontent Obsession
1. For news, you read doc, law.com, llrx and writ instead of the morning paper.
2. It has crossed your mind to keep a blog about things to blog.
3. You know what fish do when they're late.
4. You can't define a fucknozzle, but you know it when you see it.
5. Recent credit card receipts show at least three purchases from CafePress.
6. You can name at least six species of blogware.
7. You can name at least two species of blog-fowl.
8. You know several pets who blog or encourage people to.
9. You have formed opinions about political controversies you never would have heard of.
10. You know how to make Notepad wrap text.

Light Reading
Documents filed in the Enron bankruptcy case are available here. (Thanks, llrx, for the link.)

Word's Out
I enjoyed this article that plugs blogtank. Notable quote: "The biggest jump in the blogger population has arguably been among people who aren't techies, like early bloggers, but experts in other fields. They've harnessed new, easy-to-use blog-publishing tools to espouse their passions."

Blawg Additions
Several folks have joined the blawg roll. Ernie Svenson ("Ernie the Attorney") showed up in Dave Winer's blog yesterday, and is a Louisiana attorney who writes on a broad range of topics. William Altreuter has a firm in Buffalo, New York, and writes about life as a litigator ("A charming morning in court today..."). The following folks are FOD (Friends Of Dodd), and maintain interesting blogs of their own: Jeffrey Cross (Kentucky lawyer and avid cyclist), Michael Adams (Harvard law grad pursuing a clerkship with a federal judge), Michael's wife Sarah Meuller (starting law school at Brandeis in the fall), and Rebecca Terhune (law student). Give 'em a read.

-Later: Ernie's not in So Cal, as previously blogged, but down south hangin' round the other Loyola.