This Week In Law

This Week In Law #48, re Google Buzz and more, with:

• Colette Vogele
• Evan Brown
• Ernie Svenson
• Erik J. Heels

TWiL video archives and pages:

• http://twitter.com/thisweekinlaw
• http://www.facebook.com/pages/This-WEEK-in-LAW/179706770893
• http://twil.blip.tv
• http://odtv.me/?s=twil

Related Posts

• Google’s Buzz

Just because something can be done doesn’t mean it should be done.

February 9, 2010, the day that Google Buzz launched, will go down in history as the date that Google crossed the line from good to evil. But not for the reasons most are citing.

Buzz critics, including yours truly, have focused primarily on… [click here to read more]

A call for the creation of the Uniform Username Dispute Resolution Policy.

The Problem

Of the top 100 global brands, 93% have had their Twitter usernames taken by somebody else (i.e. Twittersquatted).

Twittersquatting, like cybersquatting, is when somebody registers a company’s trademark (or a famous person’s name) as a Twitter username with the intent of profiting or causing confusion. Other possible names for this practice include… [click here to read more]

Technology, Law, Baseball, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Etc.

Intro Stuff

The opinions expressed in LawLawLaw do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Clock Tower Law Group, its employees, or the author. Do not taunt happy fun ball.

I lived the life of Dilbert when I was in the Air Force. Once while… [click here to read more]

Clock Tower Law Group filed historic favicon.ico trademark.

You know that little icon that appears next to the URL in your browser? The same little icon that appears in your bookmarks window, on browser tabs, and in web feeds? That little icon, the favicon, can now be registered as a trademark with the USPTO. Yahoo! registered (what I believe to be)… [click here to read more]

Hardware of the year: MacBook. Software of the year: LogMeIn. Service of the year: Google Reader.

• 0. System
• 1. Engineering
• 2. Games
• 3. Hardware
• 4. Internet

• Email
• File Sharing
• File Transfer
• Phone
• Remote Control
• Web Browsers

• Audio Tools

Small businesses need a plan for backing up and restoring their data.

By Erik J. Heels

First published 10/1/2007; Law Practice magazine, “nothing.but.net” column; American Bar Association

I have lost no data (knock on wood) since October 2002. And in that case, I purchased a 15-year-old Macintosh to restore the one file that I lost. (See Zen And The Art

Create temp files for frequently used file extensions.

Here’s one of my favorite tricks. I do this on Windows and OS X. For 95% of my data, I use only a few file types. Open files formats work best for my desktop search engine, but I use both open and proprietary formats (being an OS pragmatist).

In the… [click here to read more]

Plus how to detect hotlinked images.

My blog is a work in progress. I have long-term and short-term projects. I recently completed a long overdue project. I wrote to United Media, the publisher of the Dilbert comic strip, to request permission to reprint a Dilbert comic that I blogged about a couple of years ago. (See Musician Loses

Technology, Law, Baseball, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Etc.

LawLawLaw
• Introduction Stuff
• Client Stuff
• Law Stuff
• Technology Stuff
• Baseball Stuff
• Rock ‘n’ Roll Stuff
• Random Stuff

The opinions expressed in LawLawLaw do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Clock Tower Law Group, its employees… [click here to read more]