a blog on information, technology, and culture by Ira Nathenson
- (Batman’s) advice for new law students, part VI: “always mind your surroundings”
- 1934: Building a brick & mortar archive
- The hindsight of archives: “Popular Science” & incorrect technology predictions
- The most valuable course I ever took
- RIP Doug Fieger, 57, leader of The Knack
- Sending @injunctions via Twitter?
- Did statutory damages destroy the music industry?
- The patient dragonfly
- Finding me online
- Dramatic Metrozoo Squirrel
- Twitter microblog
- The real end to Harry Potter 7
- Advice for new law students, part IV: essay exams
- Boredom and information overload
- Chinese censorship and the infoglut
- Google Book Search settlement
- If SciFi can be SyFy, then welcome to dygytyl grrbydge
- “Here today, gone tomorrow” – Pogue on data rot
- A Civil Procedure limerick
- Dramatic Metrozoo Squirrel
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Recent Tweets
- Off-topic, so sorry, but is Lost's Michael Emerson the best actor on TV or what? 3 hrs ago
- "Supreme Court Takes ‘Informational Privacy’ Case," http://bit.ly/doEYN5 3 hrs ago
- "Books in the age of the iPad," http://craigmod.com/journal/ipad_and_books/ (H/T NYTimes Bits). 4 days ago
- Supreme Court today decides Reed Elsivier re jurisdiction & copyright registration, http://supremecourtus.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-103.pdf 1 week ago
- "The 15 Craziest Fake Google Products EVER," http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/02/the-craziest-fake-google_n_482011.html 1 week ago
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- —2010 (5)
- +2009 (23)
- +2008 (58)
- +December (6)
- A very "Will It Blend" holiday season
- Clouded Constitution
- Change.gov and Open-Government.us: an open Web 2.0 approach to the Obama transition
- Advice for new law students, part V: avoid Monty Python "Yes it is!, No it isn't!" argumentation
- Exam break: athletes' dumbest moments and the fascinating, inspiring, and sad story of Dock Ellis
- Rare planetary conjunction: upside-down frown
- +November (11)
- Hurricane season ends
- Sunday funnies: kicked out of Costco
- James Gleick on the future of books
- Advice for new law students, part IV: essay exams
- A presidential "legacy" via rewritten history
- New Star Trek trailer
- Is Zoetrope the next-gen Internet Archive?
- 250 years of Pittsburgh innovation
- Final exams and cat naps
- The real digital garbage: e-waste
- New River Gorge
- +October (3)
- +September (1)
- +August (6)
- +July (18)
- Comcast and the creepiness factor
- Yet another report on digital preservation
- Everglades
- Gator in Everglades
- Rocco's the man
- Elephants
- Perfection rocks
- New report on copyright and digital preservation
- Google and Viacom reach partial YouTube data agreement
- Google balks at providing YouTube records of employees
- Google and Viacom: a privacy "Exxon Valdez?"
- Another Civil Procedure limerick
- GAO report and pending bill on federal e-mail retention
- BoingBoing "unpublishing" blog posts
- Google finally posts privacy link on homepage
- Archiving Independence Day
- Why does Google keep so much information?
- The privacy paradox and Google
- +June (13)
- Twitter microblog
- New report coming on "How Much Information"
- Odysseus and tax day
- A Civil Procedure limerick
- Tiger Woods, distractions, and laptops in the classroom
- Selyaisms and The Federal Rules of Gallimaufry
- Star Trek and the law: the case of Captain Kirk vs. The Computer
- Today in 1840: Morse Code patent issued
- "Fire in the hole" and YouTube apologies
- Advice for new law students, part III: avoiding your own Universal Studios fire
- What about mail surveillance?
- Ends, means, and cell phone surveillance
- Musings on the Shatman
- +December (6)
- +2007 (5)
- +2006 (19)
- +December (1)
- +August (3)
- +June (10)
- Supreme Court grants cert in KSR v. Teleflex
- LabCorp v. Metabolite dismissed
- Microsoft and Creative Commons
- This posting will self-destruct in five seconds
- Chinese censorship and the infoglut
- Expanded links
- The electronic leash: whatever happened to trusting your kids?
- Facebook: job-hunting, non-invisibility, and the creepiness factor
- Inheritability of blogs: You take Aunt Esther's silverware, I'll take her blog...
- Blogrolls: having your cake and eating it too
- +May (5)