2014

Feb 19

Microsoft should buy Xamarin for a lot of money

2011

Sep 11

Of Tragedies and Anniversaries

2010

Jul 12

Rethinking My Blog

Jan 11

One Year after a Cancer Diagnosis

2009

Oct 28

Why Paying to Pitch is Necessarily a Scam

Sep 10

9/11

Apr 6

Entrepreneurship, Ambiguity and Risk

Apr 2

The Crash-Test Solution: Using physics to predict economic downturn

Mar 19

Adversity

Feb 25

The End of the Billable Hour

Feb 24

The Barnacle and The Boat

Feb 20

The Death of Sampling

Feb 17

Haystacks: The real reason behind the Facebook TOS changes

Feb 11

Subjective Truth

Jan 25

Cancer

2008

Nov 29

The Death of AutoTune

Oct 30

Dissecting Yammer: Building for the Enterprise

Sep 22

The Innovation Bubble: Copycats and “me too” startups

Jul 29

You don’t change the world with a marginally better mousetrap

Jul 26

Revisiting (and rethinking) the Twitter “Pay to Listen” business model

Jul 8

The Exaggerated Death of Voicemail

Jul 7

You shouldn't start a tech company in Silicon Valley

Jul 4

Google is “fast becoming just another company”

Jun 21

Technology really only matters when it creates new possibilities

Jun 9

Explaining copyright with a drawing

Jun 8

Serial Entrepreneurs and High Valuations

Jun 7

Simultaneous Discovery and its impact on stealth mode

Jun 3

Free can make you a lot of money

May 25

The Challenges of Scaling Twitter's Follower Model

May 4

Twitter's problems are the result of architecture, XMPP may be the answer

Apr 11

Finding structure when you have no boss

Apr 8

Students copy honor code

Apr 7

Innovation, Disruption and The Economics of Free

Apr 6

Dealing with Review Integrity

Mar 3

Notches, a platform for reviews

Feb 24

Time Management? It's the Attention, Stupid

Feb 21

Being better than free when copies are ubiquitous

Jan 26

Putting kids where retailers won't go

Jan 26

Taking the Plunge and Rediscovering Passion

Jan 21

What exactly is "User Generated Content"?

Jan 8

Scoble, Facebook and Data Ownership

2007

Dec 25

Passion and its role in evaluating new product ideas

Nov 25

Why Notches isn't "Anti-Stealth"

Sep 12

How do you get started raising venture capital?

Sep 11

Justice Department says ISPs are like the Post Office

Sep 11

Unlocking the iPhone

Sep 10

September 11th

Aug 23

More about raising too much venture capital

Aug 20

Distinguishing between a platform and a destination

Aug 16

Professional bloggers get journalist rights

Aug 16

The Full vs. Partial RSS Feed Debate

Jul 23

Facebook: Lawsuits, IPOs, and Acquisitions

Jul 23

What exactly is an iPhone application?

Jul 22

What's the best state to incorporate in? Probably Delaware

Jul 9

Valuation: Sometimes you *can* take too much money

Jul 1

iPhone impressions

Jun 17

Twitter is, or will be, a Messaging Platform

Jun 10

There's no such thing as Web 2.0

Jun 3

Refocusing Net Neutrality

Apr 10

Understanding the Cablevision DVR lawsuit

Apr 9

How Microsoft can crush Google

Apr 4

Getting the first penny

Apr 3

Net Neutrality, Abuse of Market Power, and Conflicts of Interest

Mar 21

More on the Music Industry's Slow Death

Mar 5

Choosing a corporate entity for your startup

Mar 1

The Dark Side of Drag-Along/Tag-Along Rights

Mar 1

The Pros and Cons of OpenID

Feb 27

Exploring the Startup Culture in NYC

Feb 20

Outsourcing and Startups

Feb 18

Why do VCs only invest in C-Corps?

Feb 16

OpenID gaining momentum

Feb 14

An Introduction to OpenID

Feb 11

How is IP split between separating founders?

Feb 11

On Syndication ... and why formats don't matter

Jan 29

Equity-Based Compensation

Jan 29

Sometimes piracy isn't about getting it for free

Jan 25

Understanding the Option Backdating scandals

Jan 24

Wisdom

Jan 22

Fair Use and RSS

Jan 19

The Lost Art of Note-Taking

Jan 17

Managing IP Issues with Software

Jan 8

If you can read a file, you can copy it

Jan 7

Web 2.0 is more than a buzzword

Jan 4

JSON and XML

Jan 2

Net Neutrality: The Electicity Analogy

Jan 1

A player's right of publicity in sports statistics

Jan 1

Abandonware and Unlocked Cellphones

2006

Dec 31

A look at Apple and Microsoft strategies

Nov 5

Stanley

Oct 17

Taxing Virtual Economies?

Oct 9

Buzzwords say all the wrong things

Sep 17

The Role of Copyright in Fashion

Sep 12

Five Years Later

Aug 31

Intro to Cryptography Course

Aug 30

The First Sale Doctrine and the Textbook Industry

Aug 10

YouTube isn't all about copyright infringement

Aug 7

Nullable Value Types and the Null Coalescing Operator

Aug 1

Google launching Adsense for Radio

Jul 24

Garter admits 'mistake' in RedMonk C&D

Jul 18

The Changing Media and the Significance of Blogging

Jul 17

When lawsuits and police raids backfire

Jul 11

You can either fight change or embrace it

Jul 10

Gartner sends a cease and desist to remove a link

Jul 4

The problem with regulating what you don't understand

Jun 16

PubSub 'days are numbered'

Jun 15

More on the Web 2.0 Trademark

Jun 14

Does the First Sale Doctrine apply to DVDs?

Jun 7

Understanding AJAX

May 25

The Web 2.0 Trademark Debacle

May 9

Commercial Skipping

Apr 13

Is Apple following Palm's footsteps?

Apr 10

Entrepreneurial Proverbs

Apr 9

Netflix sues Blockbuster over business method patents

Apr 8

MPAA, P2P and digital downloads

Apr 4

Redefining the Generalist

Apr 3

Death by Risk Aversion

Apr 1

Abandonware

Mar 22

Some tips on getting your inbox to zero - and keeping it there

Mar 13

Trademark Attribution for Dummies

Mar 9

Trade dress, literally

Mar 8

The Hidden Costs of Outsourcing

Mar 7

Tower Records to offer free podcast service

Mar 6

Balthesar's "Rich-Media Application" patent

Mar 5

Innovating on behalf of your customers

Feb 27

Why you should care about privacy even if you're not doing anything wrong

Feb 23

If history tells us anything, Blu-Ray will probably fail

Feb 22

Does skipping commercials infringe copyright?

Feb 21

Surprise: RIAA trying to undermine important exceptions to copyright exclusivity

Feb 20

Copyright issues with Google News

Feb 20

Making the consumer feel great about a purchase

Feb 9

The problem with - and promise of - Web 2.0, AJAX and other awful buzzwords

Feb 2

The Hyundai Effect: "India is getting expensive"

Jan 25

Contrary to popular belief, CDs are not going away yet

Jan 3

Managing Exceptions in Framework Code

Jan 1

Let's get 3 things straight: Copyright, Trademark, and Patent

2005

Dec 4

Apple to launch new content distribution system

Dec 4

Rethinking the Exclusive Reproduction Right in the Digital Context

Dec 3

The patented comb-over technique... literally

Dec 2

America's Finest News Source reports "RIAA Bans Telling Friends about Songs"

Dec 2

The Illustrated Guide to Cryptographic Hashes

Nov 28

Non-Conventional Communication: The value of unstructured and informal content

Oct 31

Should we apply product liability to software?

Oct 30

Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep

Oct 6

What do you think about LINQ?

Oct 3

Cronyism

Jul 18

John Dvorak on Creative Commons: Will this nonsense ever end?

Jul 14

Linking can be illegal in Australia

Jul 10

Innovation in the Post-Grokster Era

Jul 8

More on Software Subscriptions

Jul 7

Software as Service: Thoughts on Newsgator's subscription model

Jun 26

Grokster Reversed in Unanimous Decision

Jun 13

Is there more to the Apple Tablet rumor than we know?

Jun 12

Location-sensitive to-do lists

Jun 12

Segmenting the market: Drivers are paying tolls to avoid traffic

May 30

RSS is not e-mail, but it is information

Apr 20

Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (FECA) 2005

Apr 12

More on the Goldilocks Theory... or, 'Go ask the Locals'

Apr 8

The Goldilocks Theory

Apr 6

The Paradox of DRM: What is the value of control?

Apr 5

Clarifying my position on Copyright

Apr 4

The Internet supplements, but does not replace, Brick and Mortar

Apr 3

In the future, music wants to feel free

Apr 2

Digital Rights Management

Mar 31

Constitution + Copyright and Orphan Works

Mar 31

Copyright Exceptions and Defenses in the Digital Age

Mar 19

Syndication and Copyright: Is there an implied unrestricted license with a full-text RSS feed?

Mar 13

Did you hear the one about the lawyer and the software engineer?

Mar 8

When you buy a CD, what are you getting?

Mar 6

When should a Blogger be treated as a Journalist?

Mar 5

Are sport stats copyrightable?

Feb 28

More on Autolink: Copyright protects the holder, not the consumer

Feb 20

Are there legal implications of the Google's new AutoLink feature?

Feb 12

A few items to satisfy the right brain

Feb 12

Of Dog Sniffs and Packet Sniffs

Jan 23

An Apple Tablet? Old news!

Jan 6

Non-infringing uses of BitTorrent

2004

Dec 18

Arguing from the other side

Dec 6

What power does a judge really have?

Oct 27

The Anatomy of a Hack: How a Criminal Might Infiltrate Your Network

Jul 10

Who's reading your e-mail?

Jun 15

Joel on "How Microsoft Lost the API War"

Jun 8

More on Blog Disclaimers

May 22

The RIAA's Fuzzy Math

May 19

The Personalities of Core Law Courses

Feb 15

Word of Mouth

Feb 12

Degrees of friendship

Jan 22

All about the ingredients

2003

Dec 29

Personal expression and professional affiliation

Dec 21

ISPs don't have to disclose user identities to the RIAA

Sep 21

Making Change

Sep 17

Stealing Music?

Sep 14

Quality Begets Quality

Jul 19

It's all about XML, stupid!

Jul 17

XML, Syndication and "What's in a name"?

Jun 18

Metaphors for and Stories about Network Authentication

Jun 9

Debug the simple things first

Jun 6

Scalable solutions and total cost

Mar 16

More laziness

Mar 13

Laziness is next to Godliness?