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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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We have a very distinguished scholar with us at the Berkman Center for several months this winter, Jean Nicolas Druey, professor emeritus at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.  He’s leading the lunchtime discussion for the community here in Baker House today; it’s a terrific crowd (Prof. Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Prof. Jonathan Zittrain, and Prof.…

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More from class: one student has stipulated that perhaps e-mail and IM and the like are not steps forward for communications among human beings.  Others say it’s neither forward nor backwards; just modernization.  And another person says that these technologies are just about the best thing ever invented.  Others break out e-mail from text-based IM from…

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In Internet & Society class tonight, we’re talking about the shift in the digital space from consumer of information to users.  A key text: Yochai Benkler’s “From Consumers to Users: Shifting the Deeper Structures of Regulation Toward Sustainable Commons and User Access.”  Case in point: weblogs.  Our guest lecturer in class is Shenja van der Graaf,…

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A new report says that US spammers are responsible for 56.7% of all spam sent.  The fragmentation of the list thereafter, with lots of smaller countries sending lots of spam, is what makes the jurisdictional and enforcement issues so thorny.

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Jim Moore says that “blogging is facing its chasm.”  Some terrific comments about new features for non-technical users and branding ideas for crossing that chasm. Loads of other good comments to Dave’s question here.

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