We’ve had Jennifer Leonard, discussing Penn Law’s Future of the Profession Initiative, Nicole Morris highlighted or TI:GER program at Emory. [read post]

” Brewster Kahle He addresses three lessons from the battles over openness: “relatively few dedicated people, with the support of the government, can create an open environment for breathtaking economic and cultural flowering” it’s hard “to make protocols work as well as walled gardens, and that it requires many dedicated people who are willing to sit out the gold rush of venture capital, acquisitions and patents” “we will need dedicated government support,… [read post]

Here's the first, your intrepid author, with photographic proof of his geek cred: 1 - I'd thought about posing as Arthur Dent, the hapless Earthling from the series who travels the universe in his bathrobe and towel, but Brett Trout of Blawg IT does it better - he's even got the hair right: 2 - Our next picture is from Colin Samuels, of Infamy or Praise, this year's Blawg Review of the Year award winner (OK, he's won every year so far… but only because… [read post]

I think our guests from last week, Ryan McClead and Nicole Bradick would toss Map Engine in there as well. [read post]