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Last Entry: May 19, 2009 at 14:08:25

Internet slang: DAFS

Posted on May 22, 2008
Lingo- according to the OED, refers to a foreign or unintelligible tongue. For those looking to interpret internet slang, try short Rice U list It may come in handy when trying to figure out if you've been "dissed". But consider, slang may not have helped this lost Japanese-speaking African Grey Parrot get home Smarter Than Lassie!!!

Second Life: More virtual world property disputes

Posted on May 21, 2008
Canadian courts see breach of contract claim for activities in Second Life I was typing in "murder" trying (so far unsuccessfully) to hunt down a lead for a Second Life incident sometime back in which executive business type avatars were "killed" by a car crashing into the board of directors meeting...

Player Sues Over Loss of Virtual Property

Posted on May 21, 2008
On-line game player sues game operator, alleges loss of "virtual property" Who took My Virtual Weapons Cache This is interesting. Real property, I get. Intellectual property, we accept. Virtual property? In the words of the inimitable Mr. Spock, "Fascinating...

Second Life: Internet Manna or Mishigas

Posted on May 21, 2008
Virtual Law (and Crime) in Virtual World Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) and Avatar EdMarkey (D-SL?) alter conducted hearings in Washington DC and Second Life for the House Subcommitee on Telecommunications and the Internet entitled "Online Virtual Worlds:Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium...

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Silicon Valley: Innovation On Innovating: Open Source Health Research

Posted on May 09, 2008
Patenting and Open Source Platform Silicon Valley nonprofit Myelin Repair Foundation (MRF) provides an early glimpse of next-generation institutional innovation (BusinessWeek.com, 11/15/07) as it emerges on the edge of medical research and drug discovery...

USPTO, United Nations & the Enola (not so Gay) Bean

Posted on May 06, 2008
On a trip to Mexico, Larry Proctor bags a bean, then patents it, then asserts Mexican Farmers cannot import this bean - indiginous to Mexico- to the US. After more than 10 years, and unrecompensed losses to farmers, the USPTO succumbed to UN pressure and struck down the bean patent...

GETTING PAID: Music Publishing Company: Simple Set Up Steps

Posted on May 03, 2008
Want to Get Paid? Who doesn't! Simple Steps to Setting Up A Publishing Company (so you can get paid!!!) First: Affiliate with ASCAP or BMI Application forms give you 3 choices of name, and it is vital to get a name that ensures you are properly paid (and not confusingly similar to other companies)...

New York Federal Judge sets Internet Music Royalties

Posted on May 01, 2008
ASCAP is thrilled estimating as much as $100 million in payments covering 7 years period ending in 2009; Digital Media Assoc., repping internet services, declines comment. U.S. District Judge William Conner's 153-page decision didn't specify the total amount owed to the ASCAP members, but he provided an example on how the formula would apply to the music royalties owed by AOL and Yahoo for 2006...

Copyright for Code Thugs

Posted on May 01, 2008
Malware is an ugly reality in cyberspace. Hackers ceaselessly barrage us with incendiary code calculated to thwart break or pervert our software. A new threat: violate our copyright, and we'rr report you to..to..to US!!! http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9111031

College as Incubator: blending theory with training

Posted on May 01, 2008
In his 1986 comedy flick, Back To School, Rodney Dangerfield plays a tough, up-from-the streets entrepreneur who winds up in the classroom of a snooty, hopelessly academic business professor. The professor blathers on about the theoretical costs of a business start-up until Rodney interrupts to tell him he?s forgotten a few things?like paying off the building inspectors and kick backs to corrupt union officials...

WalMart video scandal

Posted on April 11, 2008
and who at Wal Mart failed to get the IP rights to the video UP FRONT??? Wake UP WalMart.... God is in the details....(or see the related story on WalMart selling bible action figures....) see www.bbc.co.uk Video embarrassment for Wal-Mart Wal-Mart store The footages shows Wal-Mart executives in unguarded moments Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, faces embarrassment and potential lawsuits after its corporate video archive was made public...

MySpace YouTube Web shield shrinks

Posted on April 08, 2008
Shrinking Immunity for Web hosts Jane Doe v Friendfinder Courts chip away at Web sites' decade-old legal shield Posted by Anne Broache for C/Net News.com For more than a decade, Web site operators have enjoyed a broad legal shield against lawsuits filed over material posted by their users, which has let user-driven sites like YouTube and MySpace...

Federal Judge Rules Posting is NOT Copyright Violation

Posted on April 07, 2008
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/04/boston-judge-making.html

Monday Madness: hedgehog as a weapon carries 60 month sentence

Posted on April 07, 2008
Toss a hedgehog, go to jail.... NZ man 'used hedgehog as weapon' A man in New Zealand has been charged with using a hedgehog as a weapon, the New Zealand Herald has reported. Police said William Singalargh, 27, had hurled the hedgehog about 5m (16ft) at a 15-year-old boy...

Dogster - on the Internet and looking for "community"

Posted on March 27, 2008
Who says the Internet is over-hyped, brain mushifying and de-humanizing? See DOGSTER and if you're feeling click-happy, try CHESS and if you are inclined to "share a stash" (or want to know what it entails) try RAVELRY

FaceBook? WePlay.Com! Thanks, CAA!

Posted on March 26, 2008
Creative Artist Agency and Pequot Capital are launching WePlay.Com a social networking site aimed at image promotion of young athletes ....some of the 52 million children reportedly involved in athletics. Investment to date: $4.5 million. Launch : mid April...

SOCIAL NETWORKING Ustream. tv and FWE&E Mar 25

Posted on March 25, 2008
Silicon Valley seminar... FWE&E Ustreamtv First speaker Ross Mayfield Edleman Survey Trust Peers Second speaker Jeremiah Owyang, presented Online Community Best Practiceshttp://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0.7211,44795,00.html Open Social [Neville Note: and at this point the tv disconnected...

Riverhead Headache: Faux Memoir Fiasco

Posted on March 24, 2008
Pity the clueless agent and editor fooled by Another case of Faux Memoir Riverhead Books (Penguin USA) has offered to refund purchase price to buyers who ask A White Valley Girl Pretends to Have Grown up in Gangland It reminds me of a young person in a gym encounter: Young person (to oldster): What do you do? Oldster: I'm a novelist...

More on www.wowowow and footwear

Posted on March 20, 2008
resource allocation in peripatetic indicators: Diversity in footwear... see Mar 19 post (below beneath Guitar Hero) for live links.... check out the newly launched http://wowowow.com and the NYT coverage http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/fashion/06WOW...

Guitar Hero---Live

Posted on March 20, 2008
Inquiring minds: this is me playing GH in Second Life :)

Doctor, Doctor

Posted on March 19, 2008
The proper use of honorifics is no small matter in Germany, a society given to formality where even longtime neighbors insist on addressing each other using their surnames. Those with advanced degrees like to show them off, and it is not uncommon to earn more than one...

Celebrity CyberFem & NOT OPRAH or Britney Spears

Posted on March 19, 2008
check out the newly launched http://wowowow.com and the NYT coverage http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/fashion/06WOW.html I did write in and comment about the silly high-heeled shoe icon as the tag for "The Women"...am I the only one of the opinion they could come up with an icon that was not emblematic of gender specific torture and bondage and many trips to the chiropodist/chiropractor?

fuseproject: San Francisco

Posted on March 17, 2008
Something akin to parental pride to open a magazine and see one's client profiled.... See page 44 Spirit (Southwest Airlines in flight magazine) March 2008 : interview with world famous designer Yves Behar and fuseproject , his SF based design firm...

Valley Zen and Neville : Were We at the Same Panel?

Posted on March 11, 2008
Stanford attracted a full house at the "free to the public thanks to the generous support of GOOGLE" Legal Futures conference Saturday March 8, 2008. It followed an all day "invitation" session and one could detect that more than a few participants referred to Friday and continued discussions to which most of the "public" (read: not invited to Friday) were not privy...

Amateur Versus Professional Content

Posted on March 11, 2008
Panelists (L to R) : Lawrence Lessig, Andrew Keen, Hal Varian, Tom Rubin, Paul Cappuccio, and the Honorable Alex Kozinski

Google Provides Good Eats on Saturday Morning

Posted on March 11, 2008
Bagels for the dissing dairy. The chocolate muffins were roundly praised. Those with mouth metal stuck to yoghurt.

Stanford Center for Society & the Internet

Posted on March 11, 2008
Or is it Center for Internet and Society? After a full day Saturday, I have a stack of cards, and a jumble of notes. Then there was the Open Source reception..followed by the sale at Tommy Bahama on Sunday....a busy weekend it was .......up next: our interview with Andrew Keen, author of the controversial "The Cult Of The Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture" Followed by World of Warcraft...

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