Please Explain . . .

No. 553 Would someone please explain to me: How Twitter makes money. There is no advertising and no fees. Why so many businesses have set up Facebook pages. Why not just establish up a website? Why the Winter Classic is such a big deal. It is an ordinary regular season hockey game between ordinary teams, […]

And Now, from the folk that brought you Blog Law Blog, comes Tweet Law Tweets.

Blog Law Blog is a blog about the law of blogs. It is authored by University of North Dakota Law Professor Eric E. Johnson, who appears to have staked out this niche of intellectual property law. Now, in order to expand the reach of Blog Law Blog, Professor Johnson has just rolled out “Tweet Law Tweets”. Some of us only have an attention span of 140 characters for discussions of intellectual property topics. Tweet Law Tweets thus becomes the Blog Law Blog for the rest of us. They don’t call Twitter microblogging for nothing.

A New Years Resolution: Smite the Rude! [Updated With Response Below]

Corrine A. Tampas, a lawyer who primarily works as a consultant to other lawyers, sent me a comment on the Bitter Lawyer piece (2 down) in which she set forth her New Years resolution: â€œI will be a bitch on wheels to anyone who is not nice and/or is rude in the New Yearâ€.

Allegheny County Deed Registry Has Improved Real Estate Practice.

After six months, some still don’t like having to submit deeds for pre-approval before recording. But despite protests, the experiment with deed screening has clearly proved that the new system is worth keeping.

Rendell: “A Nation of Wussies”! Quick, Call Bartlett’s.

Excuse me, Governor, it seems to us that some other officials, not you, exercised leadership in keeping vehicles off the highways while road crews cleared the in-hindsight less than a blizzard snowfall.

Great name for a team, though: the Philadelphia Wussies.

Don’t Be Bitter, Young Lawyer.

No. 548 Dear colleague: Sometime when I wasn’t looking, a blog called Bitter Lawyer made it to the No. 2 spot on the AVVO Blogs — moving ahead of that blonde law professor from Wisconsin, Althouse. It was inevitable. Althouse has been gravitating to shorter and shorter posts for years, until she will eventually have […]

Nutmeg Lawyer is the Best Legal Blog in America, no kidding!

Just check out the testimonials. ABA Best 100 Blawgs for 2010!

But don’t take their word for it — read the blog yourself. Its more entertaining than anything you are going to find on television. And its free! Unless, of course, you want to read it on your Kindle. Then its $1.98. The new layout makes it even better than before.

Maintaining Personal Secrecy in an Age of Transparency.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is the Time Magazine 2010 Person of the Year. From Time’s account, Julian Assange of Wikileaks was not far behind. Both represent a trend toward disclosure of information which would have been considered out of bounds by just about everybody not long ago.

Of course, people who post on Facebook presumably know that information shared with friends could end up in the hands of enemies. And we have all been warned that what is posted on the internet stays there forever. But beware of another electronic threat to your privacy: email.

What the Internet Got For Christmas

This week alone noticed MASSIVE hacking activity.

Canonsburg: Equal Opportunity Offender.

It has become a holiday tradition, just like the Macy’s Parade. This year this exercise in Yuletide legal hairsplitting is occurring in Canonsburg, PA, the place where they pay homage all-year-round to native crooners Perry Como and Bobby Vinton.

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