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Here it is: Brian Rowe’s Amazon Wish List
It might be a little late for this year 
. I still need to add a few nonprofits to the list trying out the Add to Wish List Universal function now.
Please get out and make your voice matter. We need a health care system the provides for everyone and an exit strategy for Iraq. This last week I found out that my daughter will need to find a new source of health insurance starting in December, due to a lost job resulting from the current economic crisis. Now I am looking at taking out additional student loans to cover her health insurance until I graduate in June, we should not have to go into long term debt to provide for basic health care for our children. A county that does not take care of its children is a failure. We need change, I urge you to get out and vote. America has the strength and resources to protect basic Human Rights while growing new industries like technology and clean energy. We need to focus and a mandate from the people for CHANGE. Please get out and vote for Obama.
PS: I voted 2 weeks ago with an absentee ballot.
What: Special October event – BigFoot Blogging Conference
When: October 11, 2008 10:00 AM
Where: University of Washington
Sign-up here: http://pathable.com/events/bigfoot
Cost: free, but space is limited!
Conference speakers include Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome and Monica Guzman of the Seattle P-I’s Big Blog. And some others — more details to come.
Looks like a great event for local blogger. I will be missing it though, I will be in San Francisco for the Students for Free Culture Conference.
A paper co-authored by Elizabeth Townsend-Gard of Tulane and Rachel Goda a Seattle University School of Law grad, “The Fizzy Experiment: Second Life, Virtual Property and a 1L Property Course,” has been listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for Cyberspace Law. The paper was published at Santa Clara High Tech Journal in the Spring 2008. The rankings and the paper are available at the Top Ten Cyberlaw List.
Here is the abstract:
This work is an attempt to sort out the relationship between virtual property and common law property. How are we to understand the relationship between a virtual table and an actual table? What does property in this context mean exactly? While many have written about this topic from a myriad of perspectives, we took a slightly different approach. We wanted to see what property elements were being used inside one virtual space – Second Life. We sought to understand the relationship between common law property and virtual property by combining our knowledge as a property professor with a cultural history background with an avid gamer turned law student. We called it the Fizzy Experiment.
I recommend downloading the paper and reading it. Townsend-Gard is a great professor with a a vision of where cyberlaw is going. She was my first copyright professor, I audited her copyright class my 1L year, it was one of the most progressive classes I have had at law school.
The opening to the conference was Om Shanti a piece by Janice Giteck who played Keyboard. She was accompanied by Thomasa Eckert Saprano, Sid Law Tenor, Laura Deluca on Clarinet, Holly Michelle Eckert on Violin, and Richard Eckert on Cello.
Central to the theme of NTTT is the contemplative aspects of the body and the mind. Over the course of this conference we will engage in a conversation focusing on how to establish a better balance in these over busy times.
The opening panel Moderated by Geoffrey Bowker (Santa Clara University), participant were;
Janice Giteck (Cornish College of the Arts): Tech heads v. traditional song writing musicians. The clash of ideas
Don Horowitz (Former Superior Court Judge): Making decisions immersed in music or the shower, caves of contemplation and the need to listen to others.
Eric Nalder (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) : Meditation and interrogation… Take a moment of silence before action
J. Lee Nelson (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center): We keep losing space to think.
Stephen Sundborg, S.J. (Seattle Univeristy) : I think through writing. The yearly 8 days of jesuit silence also focus me on contemplation. Green lake is like taking your mind for a walk
Vinton Cerf: opening clips: I do not feel responsible for where the internet has gone since inception, we were wise to not over regulate the net, the internet makes it possible to postpone action till the last minute, the acceleration of life limits our contemplativeness, stratagems are need to focus on what is important instead of waiting for the next email or the onslaught of information.
The opening session was videotaped I will see where it is posted.
Quote of the panel “I mean really listening not just waiting of your turn to speak”
PS is it wrong to blog a conference called No Time to Think… ?
The first week of the internships has been a bit of a rollercoaster. I arrived in San Francisco Sunday the 8th, 14 hours before my fist day of work. I had just attended the Washington State Bar Access to Justice Conference in Vancouver Washington, a great experience in itself. When I got to San Francisco I met up with Tim Hwang, of ROFLCON, another intern at CC and a recent graduate of Harvard. Tim and I are splitting a 3br in the middle of SF with two of his former classmates. Moving in went well. We have a hefty flight of stairs to the house, but the view makes up for it.
My first day at CC I was able to start directly on legal projects, my supervisor Diane Peters, the General Council, had sent me a few project to start on the week before. The first research project I started on was “Can I license different versions of a work under different licenses? For example low resolution images under CC-BY and High Resolution version under CC- BY-NC or 128k version of a song under CC-BY-NC and a Free Lossless Audio Codec under All Right Reserved?” The answers will be published in an FAQ and other educational material to help people navigate their options with copyright licenses; it will be published in the next week or so. It feels great to do research and see it impact a community of authors through free practical recommendations right away. Technology and copyright are strange bed fellows. Copyright applies to new technology or the works created with them but not in a coherent way. The law is crafted to deal with today, and as new developments arise in tech we get the opportunity to explore uncharted realms, this is what makes digital copyright such a challenge and a love for me.
San Francisco has been a great place to start the summer; both the technology and nonprofit communities are very strong here. I look forward to getting out in the community more as the weeks pass. I am back in Seattle currently for a 4 day visit. I spent the weekend with my partner and daughter; it is great to see them, and then Monday and Tuesday at the No Time to Think Conference at University of Washington’s Ischool and Law School. Wednesday I am headed back to San Francisco for a Copyright 2.0 Technology Summit at Google and a CC reception at Stanford Law. Exciting week to come!