Idealawg‘s Stephanie West Allen and I are coordinating a gathering of lawyers who blog at next year’s Idea Festival. Of course the “Idea” in Stephanie’s blawg name is no accident, and this festival is right up her alley, as she posted here. My suspicions are that most lawyers who have blogs are innovative creative thinkers...Read More
The day began with The Internet is NOT Flat . Ethan Zuckerman was joined by international bloggers Amira Al Hussaini, former news editor of leading Bahrain newspaper Gulf Daily News and now Middle East and North Africa editor of Global Voices and Georgia Poppelwell to discuss fascinating international bridge building and discourse occurring on the...Read More
Here are some quotes from a front page New York Times article today, Tell-All PCs and Phones Transforming Divorce. Divorce lawyers routinely set out to find every bit of private data about their clients’ adversaries, often hiring investigators with sophisticated digital forensic tools to snoop into household computers.Read More
My favorite quotes of the day include “A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play” (source anonymous but shared by robotics whiz, James McLurkin), “Why fill my mind with useless facts when I can look it up?” (Einstein, who didn’t know his own phone number) and “it takes...Read More
There’s no telling when anyone at Idea Festival had a more inspiring, thought-provoking day. Who wants to have a contest guessing the average IQ of the speakers? While I took my laptop, there was just too much to absorb and enjoy that I didn’t want to write while listening. Running interference at the office by...Read More
