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Why not an open-access Law.gov to access public legal materials?
Ameet Sachdev writes for the Chicago Tribune about Carl Malamud‘s vision of a new Law.gov that “would give public easier access to all kinds of documents” — and not force us to rely on LexisNexis and...
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Facebook and Twitter and Google Plus… oh my!
So now we’ve got three–well, more like four–big players in the social networking space: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and LinkedIn (sorry MySpace, Live.com, Yahoo!, Bebo, Friendster, XING, and...
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WordPress under Nginx and Varnish with W3TC
When it comes to my personal Internet presence, I am an inveterate tinkerer. I like to experiment and I like to run things my way. (This is in contrast to my professional recommendations as a...
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The irrelevance of blog advertisements: a publisher’s lament
“Ask For Young’s Aerated Waters” by Flickr user ninastoessinger. CC BY-SA 2.0.After running a (horribly unscientific) poll on my law & technology blog for several months, I discovered that less...
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Revisiting copyright claims against Westlaw and LexisNexis: Does selling...
In 2009, I wrote about a California lawsuit against Westlaw and LexisNexis for violating copyright law by selling legal briefs of attorneys without their permission. I never heard what happened to that...
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The rule of law in Michigan
“Michigan House of Representatives Floor” by Flickr user “lincolnblues.” CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.An MSNBC report by liberal journalist Rachel Maddow strongly condemned the current Republican leadership in...
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Warrantless wiretaps and the Fourth Amendment: why would a court allow a...
In Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping, David Kravets summarizes a recent 9th Circuit decision regarding wiretaps by the federal government:The federal government may spy on Americans’...
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Facebook’s core problem: customers vs. users
Facebook’s massive growth came because they gave users what they wanted: connect with your friends, see what their doing, conveniently share with them, and so on — and do it for free. But now they’re...
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Recovering from server failure and bad backups: the Internet remembers
Two days ago I received several emails notifying me that my sites were all down. Soon thereafter my VPS hosting provider emailed me to say my server, and numerous others, had all been lost, and they...
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Done recovering posts after server failure
After a little more than a week of work, I’ve successfully recovered from the server failure at my old hosting provider. I’ve also implemented a new, multiply redundant backup strategy: BackUpWordPress...
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