Wednesday, April 10, 2002

On the sky again

I fly back home today. Then it's two solid days of nothing but seasonal paperwork. Arg.

Discovery Unbound

The Yale Law School, incubator of many presidents and other lawmakers, has the LawMeme blog. Outstanding.

I just learned about this from Ernest Miller, author of The Annotated Valenti. His bottom line:

If Silicon Valley senses anything, it is that they need better lobbyists to prevent things like the CBDTPA.

Hmm... maybe one of these lawbloggers could help out Jeff & friends, below.

Lights, keyboards, action

Remember about a month ago when the CARP report so totally pissed me off that I proposed a march on Washington? I did it both here and in my SuitWatch newsletter for Linux Journal. The idea was to deliver clues in a polite but massive way to lawmakers and regulators, too many of whom are either determined to throttle the Net or unaware of why that's a bad idea.

Well, Jeff Gerhardt of The Linux Show decided to start GeekPAC: the first geek political action committee. There's much more than I have time or space to describe here, but hey, that's what links are for.

Jeff's doing a Good Thing here, and I suggest we get behind it in a constructive way. For example, do you know any lawyers experienced in creating political action committees and stuff like that? Write to [email protected].