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The Boston Globe’s Angelica Medaglia wrote a piece on hearing straight talk from our politicians — reminded me of Dave Winer’s definition of a weblog as the “unedited voice of a person.” 

Prof. Lessig‘s new book, Free Culture, really is free — subject to a creative commons license.  (I think we should all buy it anyway, of course.)

Ethan Katsh, professor at UMass, writes to Paul Twomey, ICANN CEO, to “express [his] great concern over the manner and speed with which the ICANN bylaw requirement for an office of ombudsman is being handled.”

I just noticed that the very impressive Groklaw has posted an informal, but *very good,* transcription of Darl McBride’s (CEO of SCO) presentation to the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology earlier this semester at Harvard Law School. Wow.

Kaye Trammell’s got some good observations on her trip to SXSW; see esp. the Blog Rock Star post, complete with comment follow-up by bona fide BRS Joi Ito.  The Berkman Center had a contingent there, too — along with friends from PRX, EFF and others.  Sounds like it was a good show.

A promising new site from some ABA organizers focused on Internet and the provision of legal services.  I’m curious to see who‘s able to figure it out — to make the Net work for practicing lawyers. They seem to see promise in RSS for lawyers as well.

In I&S class tonight, we’re talking harmful speech.  Here are my skeleton-style notes, which are meant by way of intro into the guest presentation of my friend Rebecca Nesson.

Susan Crawford says that “musical experiences are informational.  They’re made of bits, not of atoms.  They should happen anew every single time, if things are going well.  Music isn’t wallpaper, and you don’t ‘acquire’ concerts.  You experience them.”  Almost live, from Carnegie Hall.

There’s an interesting discussion going on in Red Sox Nation about allegations that a veteran Boston Globe reporter shouldn’t have used quotes that new Boston Red Sox star Curt Schilling (the missing piece in the Sox starting rotation!  look out Yankees!) posted to a web site in his communications with fans.  Some people are agitated that this … Read more

Major ISPs filed 6 big lawsuits today to stop spam kingpins.   These cases will be an interesting test of the efficacy of a US-legal-based solution to the spam hassle.  The LA Times’ Chris Gaither has more.