Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last fish has been caught, only after the last river has been poisoned, only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.
- Cree Saying
The good news: The technology is here, it's cheap and cities across the country are doing it already.
But here's the bad news: During the next year of planning, you're going to be bombarded with messages about how the incompetent, bloated city bureaucracy is going to chase businesses from our town and waste millions of dollars on a fool's quest. It's not surprising; the cable and phone companies have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into a wired infrastructure that the people of San Francisco can leapfrog for a fraction of the cost. Should Municipalities Get in the Wi-Fi Business?
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Butterfly Effect
Men know everything… no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are... (Andrea Dworkin)
We have all been guilty of it: blurring the lines between reality and fiction. Most of us contribute by forwarding a questionable e-mail. Perhaps we have forwarded that mile-long e-mail that takes 10 minutes to scroll to the bottom, only to laugh at some soon-to-be-unemployed associate who accidentally hit "Reply To All" and sent his uncensored complaints to the entire law firm. Almost all of us are guilty of visiting the Greedy Associates Web site to revel in stories about purported associate abuse. Some of us have even contributed to blog gossip relating to law firm life. Some of us sent an email to his Royal highness William Frucht ...
We spend a lot of time in this electronic community, but do we ever stop to think whether this community is real or fictitious? One Harvard Law blogger had everyone fooled.
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• · · · · The more that legal blogging becomes accepted as a method of publishing by legal academics, and also less traditionally legal blogs the legitimacy and utility of legal blogging can only increase. Developments like Blawg Review can’t hurt, either. Blawging and scholarship ; Welcome to a world where inexperienced editors make articles about the wrong topics worse. - Judge Posner Previewing Blawg Review
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