Category Archives: General

I’m not usually inclined to post about films. But the film King of Kong (a fistfull of quarters) — on the struggle to become the world champion of Donkey Kong — is so great beyond description that I’m helpless not … Continue reading →

Like everyone else, impossible not to write about the iPhone. I have a new piece in Slate arguing that the iPhone — at least this incarnation — is revolutionary in terms of interface, but much less in terms of industry … Continue reading →

Larry, who was my original mentor back at law school, says he is leaving copyright, cyber-law and related fields.   Instead — his considerable energies are directed to “corruption” of the political process.   He mentioned this to me in Bonn earlier … Continue reading →

I’m not a privacy scholar guru or anything, nor do I know much more about social networking sites than from monkeying around on my high school’s facebook network now and then. That’s stuff that only danah boyd understands. But these … Continue reading →

The profile of Paul McCartney in last week’s New Yorker is a great read. What I’m always most amazed about the Beatles is the way they worked. They just wrote songs like that, did a few albums a year, without … Continue reading →

Yochai Benkler, here pictured in Los Angeles, is moving to Harvard Law School. Yochai’s work on commons production mechanisms is it. Great news for Harvard, of course — for years, despite the Berkman center, the school has had only a … Continue reading →

I’m moving and while I’ll probably buy, I went looking at rentals today. Check this out. On Bleeker. An empty apartment, with a bad smell. Fourth floor walkup. Bad, fake plastic-wood floors. Collapsed bathroom ceiling. One bedroom. Best of all, … Continue reading →

I have a piece supposedly forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review Forum — but supposedly is the operative word. So in the meantime I’m going to paste the piece below. It is a commentary on a paper by Jonathan Zittrain, … Continue reading →

In Germany, I was at special conference on commons theory for young scholars. Despite my relative lack of years, I was actually not one of the young scholars. Instead a co-host with Larry Lessig; our job was to give feedback … Continue reading →

Spoke at the New Yorker conference in the Gehry building on 18th st. in NYC. Great views of the Hudson river, but on the whole the building on the inside is nowhere near as quirky as on the outside. Somehow … Continue reading →