Think visually before launching technology products.
“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte
On 02/09/10, Google launched Google Buzz, http://www.google.com/buzz, its new social networking service. Shortly after launch, users revolted over privacy concerns.
I am publishing this blog piece on Sunday night over a holiday weekend because I believe that this issue is really… [click here to read more]
Posted February 14, 2010, in Copyright Law, Google, Music, Weblogs by @ErikJHeels (permalink: http://erikjheels.com/?p=2056)
Google shuts down music blogs, but it had little choice.
Tough week for Google. First, Google’s Blogger division shuts down a handful of music blogs in response to DMCA complaints, and users go crazy. Second, Google Buzz launches, and users are outraged over privacy concerns (more on that later). Users: can’t live without ‘em, can’t live with ‘em without the occasional outrage.… [click here to read more]
Don’t sweat the small stuff.
In 2009, my social networking fun was interrupted by Big Stuff: my wife and I decided to amicably divorce. We sold our big house in Acton, moved into two separate places, and are spending 2010 starting over.
Why do I blog about this? Three reasons.
First… [click here to read more]
Posted October 28, 2009, in Google, Social Networking, Technology, Weblogs by @ErikJHeels (permalink: http://erikjheels.com/?p=1988)
Taking control of my feed again.
I just turned off FeedBurner. The problems with FeedBurner are well documented. No need for me to pile on.
If you’ve subscribed to the FeedBurner feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/erikjheels), then you’ll need to re-subscribe. My blog’s new feed is http://erikjheels.com/?feed=rss2. Please make a note of it.… [click here to read more]
Technology, Law, Baseball, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Etc.
The opinions expressed in LawLawLaw do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Clock Tower Law Group, its employees, or the author. All your base are belong to us.
Doing Our Part To Fight The Recession: Clock Tower Law Group’s $45K Stimulus Program
We added 30… [click here to read more]
I started this as an email and decided to make it a blog post instead. Hence the format.
I also use two spaces between sentences. Sue me.
Greetings,
Thank you for signing up for yesterday’s LEXpertise BLN event where Victoria Merriman of Digital Loom spoke about Web 2.0 and I spoke about Twitter.
At the… [click here to read more]
Posted May 22, 2009, in Google, Social Networking, Technology, Weblogs by @ErikJHeels (permalink: http://erikjheels.com/?p=1854)
When feeds are out of sight, feeds are out of mind.
“By the way, and you can quote me on this, I was totally wrong about FeedBurner. Since starting to use FeedBurner three months ago, my readership has doubled, even though my blogging volume has stayed about the same.”
- 02/16/07 email from Erik J. Heels to Rick Klau… [click here to read more]
Today, we’re tweeting with @erikjheels: lawyer, electrical engineer, columnist, Red Sox fan, former Air Force Captain and more.
By Lance Godard
First published 5/14/2009; 22tweets.com; 22 Tweets
Erik J. Heels.
Trademark, domain name, patent lawyer and more.
Founder, Clock Tower Law Group.
Avid blogger.
MIT Engineer.
Today… [click here to read more]
All web pages are shareable items. All titles are Twitter tweets. Get used to it.
The Internet is changing. Your writing habits need to change as well.
Articles Are Born As Web Pages, But Then They Grow Up And Move Out
When you write a web page, it can – and will – be shared with others:
Posted March 16, 2009, in Google, Social Networking, Weblogs by @ErikJHeels (permalink: http://erikjheels.com/?p=1579)
A combination of plugins is causing the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin to break with WordPress 2.7.1 running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4.
Here’s what I know for certain:
- The current combination of plugins I am using works without breaking FeedBurner’s feed.
- Enabling the Post-Plugin Library plugin broke my FeedBurner feed; disabling it fixed it.
