I found a couple of the original Epinions commercials on Youtube. These were a classic example of dot com advertising and one of the early examples of user-generated content for advertising purposes. Jay and his iMac: Jeff trying to snowboard…
Lisa has gone crazy with digital scrapbooking, producing a 60+ page tome documenting Jacob and Dina’s life over the past 12 months.
Today marks the three-year anniversary of my blogs. It has been an absolutely terrific ride, with about 1,200 posts and about 5.7M page views over the past three years. You can read some of the highlights and lowlights in my…
Regular readers of this blog know that I wish that the environmental benefits of vegetarianism were better understood. To that end, another NYT article explores the topic. This article recaps a lot of social science I’ve blogged before, but I…
I’ve mentioned before that I’ve found vegetarian restaurants in some pretty obscure locations, such as the five-star restaurant in Murphys and the raw restaurant in a Las Vegas mini-mall miles from the Strip. This weekend, using my typical technique of…
Over at LexBlog, I had a two-part interview about blogging and the role of blogs in legal scholarship. See parts 1 and 2.
Kirsten Wolf, a 32-year-old graduate of BU Law, is out to warn people about law school. At WSJ Law Blog, she complains: Lots of people go to law school as a default. They don’t know what else to do, like…
In February 2006, I spoke about teaching contract drafting at a symposium at Brooklyn Law School. Nearly 2 years later, I have finally posted the associated essay, entitled “Integrating Contract Drafting Skills and Doctrine.” It’s brief (6 pages) and breezy,…
Mark Hermann at the Drug & Device Law Blog celebrated his one year blogiversary with a retrospective on four lessons he learned about blogging: 1) “blogging — or, at a minimum, blogging about substantive legal issues — is hard.” Eric’s…
Represented by Morrison & Foerster, Toshiba won a commercial dispute with New England Technology. Per the contract, the judge awarded attorneys’ fees to Toshiba. As usual, the court gave a 10 day period for Toshiba to file a motion detailing…