Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 3:24PM LawMeme confirms there was an explosion this afternoon at Yale law school. They link to news coverage, and here's more. Thank goodness and knock wood, I see no reports of injuries.
Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 11:55AM McDonald's and Burger King have veggie burgers. Reeses has various odd (but enticing) limited editions. Oreos come inside-out. Soon, it will be Raining Frogs and Fishes.
Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 8:01AM Spanish pay music site Puretunes ("No Rules. No Limits.") markets itself as authorized but doesn't specify by whom. Not the major record labels apparently. The Los Angeles Times reports on a provision of Spanish copyright law—requiring "artists and record companies to be paid equal royalties when there is no agreement on how to divide the payments from the sale of their work"—that could enable Puretunes to deeply undercut competitors' pricing: "For the price of four songs at the iTunes Music Store, someone with a fast Internet connection could download more than 400 from Puretunes." ("Spanish Site Brings Pay Into Play;" more from c | net; Reuters)
c | net reports on the Future of Content conference last month at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. This year's theme: "Cooperation & Rivalry in the Digital Age: The Changing Dynamics of Content Creation & Distribution." ("How tech shapes entertainment's future")
Dave Winer is working and teasing.
Console your favorite Buffy fan, today may be tough: "'Buffy' saved television a lot." (Los Angeles Times, "RIP 'Buffy': You drove a stake through convention")
Monday, May 19, 2003 at 2:10PM To Marty Schwimmer, for the one year anniversary of the preeminent Trademark Blog.
To Frank Paynter, for the resumption of his dance-this-mess-around interview series, this time with Ryan Irelan.
To Doc (more, yet more, even more), Dave, Scoble and Professor Lessig for writing brilliantly lately about transparency, competition, and how coming to the party might just score you a tastier slice of cake.
To Chris Locke, for elucidating matters of HTML and haute cuisine.
To the ladybug who even now is gamely ascending the exterior face of my thirtieth-story window without the aid of oxygen or crampons. (Matthew Weathers has some lovely photos of the challenging terrain.)
Monday, May 19, 2003 at 9:29AM L.A. Times writer John Healey in an article profiling Grokster attorney Michael Page: "The key is to find analogies that help extend a well-established principle to new technologies."
Berkeley organizational behavior professor David I. Levine, in an L.A. Times article examining Sun's iWork program: "Humans were designed to communicate and be affectionate and break bread together. . . . It's going to take a long time to figure out how to break bread over the Internet."
(Weblogs: A Multigrained Solution)
