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Submission Summary: 0 pending, 12 declined, 4 accepted (16 total, 25.00% accepted)

Government

Submission + - Transparency Advocate Campaigns to Lead GPO (oreilly.com)

BigTimOBrien writes: "In this interview with O'Reilly Broadcast, Carl Malamud discusses his grassroots effort to build support for his appointment to the Public Printer of the United States. From yeswescan.org: "For over 20 years, Carl Malamud has been publishing government information on the Internet. In 2008, Public.Resource.Org published over 32.4 million pages of primary legal materials, as well as thousands of hours of video and thousands of photographs. In the 1990s, Malamud fought to place the databases of the United States on the Internet. In the 1980s, Malamud fought to make the standards that govern our global Internet open standards available to all. Malamud would continue to work to preserve and extend our public domain, and would place special attention to our relationship with our customers, especially the United States Congress.""
Businesses

Submission + - Jason Fried: On Focus and Avoiding Interruptions (oreilly.com)

BigTimOBrien writes: "Jason Fried, founder of 37signals, talks about the day to day operations of 37signals. How does the company work, and what are the guiding principles behind the design of Basecamp and Campfire? He talks about the importance of avoiding interruptions and the relative unimportance of both physical space and mandatory meetings."
The Courts

Submission + - EFF: Lawyer Trademarks "Cyberlaw" (eff.org)

BigTimOBrien writes: "Corynne McSherry writes: "Eric Menhart may call himself a cyberlawyer, but we think he has a lot of learn about cyberlaw — and common sense. Menhart is the author of a blog about cyberlaw issues called, logically if not innovatively, "Cyberlawg." (As he says in the top right corner, "Cyberlawg = Cyberlaw + blog.") And he is "principal attorney" in a firm called "CyberLaw P.C." OK, OK, we get it, he practices technology law. Based on this, he's applied for a trademark on the use of the term "cyberlaw" in connection with the practice of, um, cyberlaw. That's like a soda company claiming a trademark in the use of the word soda in connection with the sale of soda. Or an apple farmer claiming a trademark in the use of the term apple in connection with the sale of apples. Or ... well, you get the picture.""

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