Author Archive | David Post

There’s a lot one can say about Google’s decision, announced today, that it will shut down its Chinese search engine at google.cn — or, more precisely, that it will “stop censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored […]

The High Court of Singapore has agreed to hear the appeal in an important copyright infringement case against RecordTV (that I blogged about a year or so ago …). It’s an interesting case on several fronts – For one thing, it replicates almost perfectly, on the facts, the very important Cartoon Network v Cablevision case […]

For any VC’ers in the Research Triangle area looking for something interesting to do during lunchtime tomorrow, I’ll be giving a talk (sponsored by the Federalist Society and the Carolina Intellectual Property Law Society) on Jefferson, his moose, the Internet, natural law, and related matters at the U. North Carolina Law School starting at noon, […]

I’m not ordinarily the complaining sort – really. But my boys on the Temple basketball team really got shafted by the NCAA Committee this time around, and it burns me up. A #5 seed?? The A-10 regular season champion and tournament champion? Temple’s RPI places it number 8 in the country — the teams on […]

So here’s a cute little trademark dispute. Those stalwart defenders of free speech, Citizens United, apparently are not so crazy about being on the receiving end of the First Amendment’s free speech guarantee. The group, which as you know won a huge victory last month in the Supreme Court in its First Amendment challenge against […]

So I’m up in beautiful Montreal, getting ready for a lecture I’m giving this afternoon at the University of Montreal on my Jefferson’s Moose book. When the cab pulled up in front of my hotel yesterday afternoon, this is what greeted me: Well! I’ll have to remember to thank the lecture series organizers for being […]

Here, in case you were wondering, is Clifford Stoll’s explanation in Newsweek, circa 1995, for why the Internet will fail. “Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And […]

[Thanks to 9gag.com, and to Sarah P. for the pointer]

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” It’s not, actually, the official US Postal Service motto (there is no such thing), but it is carved onto the pediment of the James Farley Post Office building in midtown Manhattan (the big, beautiful […]

The Florida Supreme Court has issued a judicial ethics opinion in which it answered the question “Whether a judge may add lawyers who may appear before the judge as “friends” on a social networking site, and permit such lawyers to add the judge as their “friend.” in the negative. The Committee concluded that allowing this […]

I’ve written a fair bit – in my book, in a couple of articles here and here, and on this blog from time to time – about the extraordinary development of the new science of networks, an amalgam of research in biology, physics, systems engineering, mathematics, sociology, and other disciplines, all focused on unraveling the […]