I phoned into the news conference today publicizing the release of Public Citizen’s report on Binding Mandatory Arbitration, but had such bad reception I finally had to hang up. However, I don’t need the press conference–all I needed was the report and what a report it is. I’ve read a lot of the horror stories on mandatory […]
Year: 2007
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Back to business
It’s amazing how things seem to happen at once. I’ve been waiting to find more information for one story in order to write a follow-up, and waiting on an event for another. Both happened today. Isn’t that just the thing? The follow up is to the Jena story. Details of Mychal Bell’s juvenile records are […]
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Creative inevitability
It was a sense of inevitability that I read about the lawsuit against Creative Commons and Virgin Mobile, Australia. The suit came about because of the recent Virgin Mobile use of photos licensed for commercial use via a CC license. Not surprising to read Lawrence Lessig’s optimistic look at the issue, though his segue going from a thoughtful […]
The big story in these parts today is the protest rallies in support of the group of black youths known as the “Jena 6”. Jena is a small town in Louisiana, and the focus of about 10,000 protesters from all over the country, today. It’s difficult to find the facts to the story of the […]
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Being Nice
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. O’Reilly has been running a series this month titled, Women in Technology. I contributed one of the earlier essays, titled So, What?. I had ambivalent feelings about participating, not the least of which I wasn’t sure that grouping essays by a bunch of women together for publication during the same month was […]