CALIOPOLIS

I am always looking for sources of interesting podcasts and one of my staff pointed me to this collection of gems. Hamline’s Conversations in Law. Lots of intersting topics relating to law, society, culture and even Malcom Gladwell, author of Blink and the Tipping Point.

Professor Garrett Power has spent 30 years writing his casebook which is titled: Constitutional Limitations on Land Use Controls, Environmental Regulations and Governmental Exactions. He has posted the 704 page PDF to SSRN and the University of Maryland’s Digital Commons website. In this 24 minute conversation, we talk about his motivations and expectations for the […]

The Harvard Business Review list of breakthrough ideas for 2007 has so many intriguing and insightful ideas that I don’t know where to begin … and so I won’t. Instead, follow the link and read grow smarter. Or listen to the podcast here.

News of BlackBoard’s pledge is still pinballing around the blogpsphere. I subscribe to a stored search for the term ‘blackboard patent’ and it retrieves dozens of blog posts every day since they made the Pledge. The great majority of these posts have not been positive or grateful to BlackBoard. I have really been trying to […]

There is an old joke that I first read in an Archie comic where Jughead is up on the roof of the school on his hands and knees looking for something. The principle, Mr. Weatherbee asks him what he is doing. "I’m looking for a book I lost yesterday in the cafeteria", Jughead replies. "If […]

Read all about here. I’m still digesting, but a couple of things pop out. Last week, after the news that the USPTO had agreed to re-examine the ‘138 patent, the number of blogs and news sources that ran the story was huge and noisy. They want to own the commercial CMS market. I haven’t read […]