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The second part to Lawrence Lessig's slashdot interview has been posted (the first part was the questions, these are Lessig's answers.) If you don't know Lawrence Lessig is a Stanford University law professor much embroiled in the great copyright debates. Influential - albeit on the losing side - in the Napster case, the DeCSS DVD decoding case, and the anti-trust case against Microsoft. Probably the foremost legal thinker on the diverse matters of law being turned inside out by the digital age.
Bill posts the scoop on the fabled Christmas tree deep inside the PATH train tunnel under the hudson river between NYC and NJ.
My plan was to toil in relative obscurity here, and for the most part that has really worked out for me. I know some of my friends here read this page. And I think maybe my Mom and Sister do sometimes too. Otherwise things are pretty quiet around here visitor wise.
But then a few weeks ago someone linked to me from their page. It didn't produce a tidal wave of hits, but I have a feeling the steady trickle coming my way is of the highest quality. Too high most likely. And there's the problem. While I couldn't be more pleased with the link, I can't help wondering what caught his attention. He sure isn't picking up any programming tips. I keep reminding myself that his sidebar links aren't really an endorsement, but just a list of recently visited sites. I figured I'd be rotated out of the lineup in a hurry. But every day when I click over to read his previous nights entry I see my link is still there. This makes me feel very good, but also adds a little pressure. "You mean people I don't know are reading this?" I think it's one of the more interesting things about the whole weblog world that I actually care about this. It's somehow more important because I don't know him. Too bad he's not in NYC or I'd offer to get him a table at the restaurant.
I wasn't even going to mention this at all. But then today I noticed another person I've come to respect through reading his page has also added my link. Seriously? Wow. I'll have to start dropping some Shulgin references or something. Again, not a deluge of traffic, but I don't care about that. It's the quality I'm after. So if you're coming here through either of those fine pages, welcome, have a look around, but don't hold it against them.
How long does 15 minutes last on a 400 mhz G3?
I haven't had as much time lately for posting here. Things are very busy on the home front plus my recent venture into OS X fanaticism is taking a lot of my time. I think I will be swallowed by the project builder monster if I'm not careful. It's much to Apple's credit that I would find myself with the courage to even open up such a program. But this introduction to Applescript on OSX was just too tempting. "You mean I can make cocoa programs with Applescript?" That's something even a not so sophisticated PHP scripting philosophy major can probably deal with.
Doc Searls: "Hotel California Lists, or HCLs, are my new label for email lists you can check out of, but never leave."