Category Archives: Alternative Distribution

When National Public Radio held its first planning board meeting in late 1969, to decide what NPR would be, here was the contribution of one of its planners from the University of Texas (taken from Jack Mitchell’s book, “Listener Supported” … Continue reading →

I just spent two days at a great Stanford – Google conference. One of the ideas to emerge from the conference was that its time to get serious about working for a little more unlicensed spectrum.   There’s a chance to … Continue reading →

Carl Malamud, his team at Public.Resource.org, with the support of Larry Lessig made a deal with Fastcase – and the consequence is more free federal caselaw than ever before. We’re putting these new materials on Altlaw.org — and I should … Continue reading →

Altlaw is getting better and better — check it out! – Supreme Court coverage back to the beginning – Courts of appeals back to the 1970s – Streamlined, better searching At this rate we’ll be ready to leave BETA early … Continue reading →

While I’ve long been sympathetic to the idea of MuniWiFi projects, today in Slate I write about why they aren’t working.

In our rush to describe Altlaw to bloggers and the press, I think we may have done too little to discuss some of the other, complimentary efforts, to make U.S. law and the law of other nations easier to access. … Continue reading →

Despite it being August, Altlaw is beginning to get a bit of attention so perhaps a few comments. Obviously the program is beta and unfinished. We don’t think, in its present form, that Altlaw can serve as a full substitute … Continue reading →

This is a project we’ve been keeping under wraps; and while we’re still in beta, Altlaw.org is up and running. What’s altlaw? Altlaw is the first public domain completely free legal search engine. Right now it lets you search the … Continue reading →

That’s about how much it might cost to get your hands on nationwide spectrum equivalent to a UHF station. Perhaps the nature conservancy should buy itself some.