[Introductory note: next week my son Jacob’s class is taking a school-sanctioned field trip to In-N-Out Burger during normal school hours. We have decided not to participate in that field trip. I sent the following email to the school principal…

Last month, we held the inaugural Internet Law Works-in-Progress event at Santa Clara University. Over three dozen Internet law scholars participated in the event. A few observations: Insatiable Demand for WIP Events. I was nervous about launching a new works-in-progress…

State v. Komisarjevsky, 2011 WL 1032111 (Conn. Super. Ct. Feb. 22, 2011) In a sexual assault and homicide case, the defendant asked the judge to ban the media from posting tweets from the courtroom. Connecticut court rules explicitly prohibit “broadcasting”…

Earlier this year, I gave an informal talk to our faculty and staff about how I use blogging and my personal website. My talk slides. As you can see, I made one basic point: like-minded people may be interested in…

I love trying new vegetarian restaurants, but the Royal Greens Vegetarian Restaurant in San Jose (on De Anza, very close to the Cupertino border) did not rock my world. My wife and I tried three dishes: * kung pao chicken…

Sunol Regional Wilderness suffers from several branding problems. First, calling it a “wilderness” is overly generous. Most of it is a working cow ranch. It also is along the flight paths for both SFO and Oakland airports, so planes constantly…

I previously blogged about my problems with Scribd, the document hosting service, when they put up a paywall on user-uploaded documents. Scribd tried to soft-pedal the change by giving users an opt-out, but they never fully acknowledged how they changed…

HAC, Inc. v. Box, 2010 OK 89 (Okla. Dec. 14, 2010) I’ve repeatedly blogged on social networking sites providing evidence that undercuts a litigant’s position (my last post on the topic). Today’s example involves a minor working in a grocery…

I got the following email from an ex-employee of Phone to Phone Inc. (as usual, republished with permission): ____ I came across your website detailing your frustrations with phonetophone while checking around wondering how my old employer was doing. I…

Over the last year, I’ve become a heavy user of Scribd. I have posted over 100 documents to Scribd that have generated over 100,000 reads. Posting to Scribd is fast and easy–much easier than using my extremely cumbersome web hosting…