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bIPlog has Moved!! Please Change RSS Feed and Links - bIPlog has moved to Boalt.org, the student organization for Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley's Law School. We have a number of new writers who will join bIPlog, including Aaron Burstein, Brian Carver, Will DeVries, Alex Eaton-Salners, Christen Lee, Elizabeth Miles, Aaron Perzanowski and Tara Wheatland. All are law students at Boalt, and active members at Boalt. It's exciting to have bIPlog expand with new folks writing on the topics of IP, security, privacy and digital media ....

EFF Announces New Blogs - Deep. "Note worthy news links from around the internet." Mini. "A byte-sized companion to Deep Links." In the interest of choice, I'm hoping they do a demi. You know those marketing guys say that when you offer small, medium and large, by far the biggest seller is medium. Demi-link. How 'bout it? The tagline could read: "Like two espressos after lunch, with grappa. An EFF-correcto." Anyway, I'm thrilled the EFF has brought active blogging back ...

Extension on Early CFP Registration - 7 More Days ....

Last Day to Register on the Cheap for CFP... - Computers, Freedom and Privacy that is, Ap 20-23, 2004. The major tech policy conference of the year gets more expensive if you register after today. Act now Students are $75 today! And with a program like this, you can't justify *not* going to some of this (It's at the Clairmont Hotel in Berkeley) ....

File Sharing Lawsuits At Berkeley - Well, everybody including Mark Cuban (the owner of the Dallas Mavericks who just started blogging) is talking about music and copyright somewhere, it seems. Cuban has suddenly become very active on Pho talking about the Leahy-Hatch bill proposing to make file sharing criminal. (Side Note: Mark mentioned a company he started selling powered milk as an example toward the entrepreneurial spirit he thinks the music business and RIAA should consider, instead of fighting file sharing ...

China's Digital Future Conference at the JSchool Ap 30 and May 1 - Info here. From the invite: You are invited to a conference on "China's Digital Future" at the UC Berkeley campus on Friday & Saturday, April 30 & May 1, 2004, sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism. The conference features a keynote address by Stanford University Law Prof. Lawrence Lessig and presentations by many scholars, technologists, business people and journalists who are experts on China. (Ed. Note: Jonathan Zittrain will be there too.) Check the ...

PEW Asks Musicians... - What's the impact of the internet on your work. If you are a musician or songwriter, fill it out! Very important considering the "spate" of lawsuits that keep "flooding" consumers (sorry, just had to make fun of those words that those reporters overuse ). Jason Schultz does the math though, figuring that each filesharer would need to set aside $0.01483 cents per month average in order to cover settlements across all filesharers. But then Jason points ...

Copyfight Grows... - Donna Wentworth sends news that some folks will be joining her: Elizabeth Rader, Ernest Miller, Jason Schultz, Aaron Swartz, and Wendy Seltzer. Good luck guys! And now to take off for 48 hours of much needed rest ....

Spring Break... - Taking a couple of days off back Wednesday ....

"You're Outsourced" Still Available - Donald Trump is trying to trademark "You're Fired" as of 2/4/04. (I think Fuck may still be available too. Or at least Fuck the FCC.) Courtesy of the Smoking Gun. Update: doncha just love how the press deals with IP? So ABC is talking about how Trump has filed a "copyright" request with the PTO, and Left, Right and Center on NPR just said that Trump has filed a "patent" request for "You're Fired." I'll ...

Behavior Mod by Comcast, or Mickey Mouse Internet - by Farhad Manjoo/Salon (sub req or watch ad). "We use the Net as a lifeline," George says. "For anybody for whom this isn't their native country, you'd understand." But Comcast, the company that provides George's high-speed Internet service, didn't understand. Last August, the company sent him a letter telling him to quit it -- he was using the Internet too much. The firm said he was violating Comcast's "acceptable use" policy, that he was somehow ...

Dylan/Garamond Make Digital Music Together - Sean Savage says: I know, you're not quite so sure about Garamond. But you -know- you're into Bob Dylan. So give it a chance. Indulging my fantasies about moveable typefaces. Course, the Zepplin/Times NR is pretty hot, though BigG/Baskerville has really nice letters. But the Beatle's Dear Prudence/Book Antiqua has to be my fav. Now that's art ....

Matrix is Losing Member States - Due to privacy fears. John Schwartz/NYT reports that only 5 of the original 16 states are still in the program. Matrix was supposed to relate databases across many states and had funding from the Homeland Security Administration, and the purpose was to sift through records to find patterns of suspect behavior, among other things. BIPlog reported on this before, though it wasn't mentioned in any of the presentations at the Privacy conference I attended this ...

Privacy on Several Fronts - Yesterday, I attended the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society's "Securing Privacy in the Internet Age" Symposium. It's going on today but I'm not attending. Too many conferences, and I have a lot of work to do before tomorrow. So it was a great day, interesting presentations on lots of privacy issues, including but not limited to leaky technologies like RFID, Sensor Networks (Pam Samuelson's new research area), as well as policies on ...

DRM? Chris Willis Nails It - On screen now at Media Morphosis Day 3: "Insure content security with baked in Digital Rights Management." Chris: What's the point? Michael Silberman: I think DRM could be used to keep people from stealing, and get them to pay for content. And it could be used to facilitate the making of content. No. Not. DRM for news? Okay, your content has high value for maybe, 24 hours? You want to lock it up? There is ...

How to use your interviewing skills to trend on Twitter - By Robert Niles: Journalists can be their own worst enemies when they try to interact with their audience online. If you think that the online medium somehow fundamentally changes the way that people interact, and that you need to adopt a new set of principles for interviewing and interacting with people online, you're just setting yourself up for failure. It's like watching an actor psyche himself out before going on stage, or a golfer giving herself a harsh set of the yips when approaching the green. Journalists I've met and worked with too often talk themselves out of their natural state and familiar skills when they start thinking about online interactivity. And those fears of failure quickly become self-fulfilling. Here's a success story story for you to consider, instead. Not to get all hokey on you, but I do believe that if you're thinking about success when you interact with your readers, you're putting yourself in a better place than if you go into conversations with negativ...

Sometimes you have to cut back to move forward - By Robert Niles: If you think that innovation is just about creating new products and services, you're missing what might be the most important step in leading a publication forward. A publication makes its greatest progress not when it introduces new products and services but when it shows the discipline to leave tired or failing efforts behind. You must fight the inertia that's holding you back. This month I began shutting down what where once the most popular services on my family's violin website. While these were the first services we offered on the site, and the ones that defined us to our early audience, they'd become a major time drain for me, and were failing to leverage any significant income for the site. Making the decision to close these services not only created an opportunity for me to devote more time to the stuff that is working on the site, it also forced me to confront the reasons why these services weren't thriving anymore. An innovator who's also designing and l...

10 things to remember about your readers, when they start to tick you off - By Robert Niles: Great reader comments, tips and blogs can help elevate a news website into a true community, one where people come together to learn from each other, enjoy each others' company and maybe even help address some of the "real-world" problems that any community faces. Of course, on the flip side, trolls and know-it-alls can make reading the comments on a website a visit to virtual hell. So when some of your readers begin to tick you off - either for what they do, or what they don't - here are 10 things to remember after you've taken a deep breath. You can't force readers to care No matter how much work you put into a piece, no matter how much news you thought you broke in it, no matter well you think told the story, you simply cannot force readers to care. The best you can do is to think about your readers' needs and interests and then craft an engaging narrative or presentation that rewards whomever pays attention. But even then, some readers are just going to say "...

You'll get what you expect from your online community - By Robert Niles: What do you think about your audience? I'm not asking to recite any market research or website usage metrics you've collected about your readers. Give me your gut, emotional reaction to that question, instead. Let's tweak the phrasing of my question. How do you feel about your readers? Are you proud of them? Do they make you angry? Do they surprise and amuse you? Do they get on your nerves and annoy you? Do wonder if they're even paying attention to anything you do? I'm going to take an educated guess here and assume that many of you would respond, "a little of all the above." I've certainly felt each of those reactions in dealing with the readers on my sites, not to mention on the newspaper websites where I've been entrusted to deal with reader-submitted comments and other content. But I'd ask you to stick with the question and settle on just one reaction. What's the primary thought, emotion, or reaction that you feel about your readers and their participation w...

With lower costs, independent eBook publishers hold the advantage - By Robert Niles: Have you been following the Amazon eBook "price fixing" case? Yes or no, don't let this story discourage you from eBook publishing. If anything, this case should be encouraging independent news publishers to jump into the eBook market. Why? As Talking Points Memo explained, this case boils down to an alleged attempt by big book publishers to collude to get an "agency" deal where they would get to set the price of the books they published and were sold on Amazon. The TPM summary didn't mention it, but that agency pricing model is the pricing deal that you get with Amazon as an independent eBook publisher. Why is that a price fixing offense for them and not for you? In short, because they allegedly colluded to get particular prices under that deal, according to the TPM summary. Econ 101 lesson here: If you can enter a market where existing players are colluding to hold up prices, you have a huge business opportunity if you can undercut them on price. Typically, whe...

It's okay to be partisan, and a few new principles of journalism ethics - By Robert Niles: President Obama earlier this month refreshed attention to the way that some journalists twist the news by creating false equivalencies in their stories, in an effort to appear "fair" and "objective" as reporters. "There's oftentimes the impulse to suggest that, if the two parties are disagreeing, they're equally at fault and the truth lies somewhere in the middle," Obama told the Associated Press. The attack picked up momentum when an AP reporter did just that in his coverage of the speech, falsely accusing the president of moving to the left on health care as Republicans moved to the right. Talking Points Memo and The Atlantic both called the AP on it, though the AP story has now been changed - without acknowledgement - to remove the paragraph in question. The reticence to take sides in reporting news runs strongly throughout journalism. But when that reticence mutates into a need to change the facts to fit a preferred, nonpartisan, view of the news (called by Jay...

Government reporters ought to explain their opinions, not hide them - By Robert Niles: Last week, a bunch of journalists in Wisconsin got in trouble with their papers for signing the petition to recall the state's governor, Scott Walker. And the news industry blew yet another chance to build some rewarding connections with their readers. Instead, publishers reacted as if news industry employees participating in a political movement was some evil affront to the Sanctity of Journalism. Green Bay Press-Gazette publisher Kevin Corrado wrote "we now are in the process of taking disciplinary measures and reviewing supplemental ethics training for all news employees." (BTW, hat tip to Jim Romenesko, for noticing that Corrado's statement matched those from several other Wisconsin publishers. Perhaps they all came from the same corporate PR advisor?) None of the employees at Corrado's paper covered politics, or edited anyone who did. But even if they did cover Walker, I think those employees should have been allowed to sign the petition if they desired, under...

Is your start-up news website legal? - By Robert Niles: That might seem like an absurd question, especially for readers in the United States, where the First Amendment protects the freedom of the press. How can a news website be illegal? Well, while the First Amendment protects freedom of the press, plenty of other federal, state and local legislation regulates the conduct of business. And the First Amendment doesn't give news publishers a free pass to ignore that. So you'd better be paying taxes on your business income. And abiding by legal hiring and employment practices if you're bringing on help. "No sweat," I can hear some of you saying to yourselves. "I pay my state and federal income taxes and work by myself at home. I don't need to worry about employment law or all that other stuff." Ah, you work at home, you say? Then you might not be running a legal business after all. Have you checked your local zoning code to see what it says about running a business out of your home? You might surprised by what you learn. ...

Turn news industry disruptions to your advantage - By Robert Niles: The 2012 State of the News Media report by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism is out, and it includes some eye-opening numbers on who's making money from news these days. Here's a hint. It's not newspaper companies. From the report: In the last year a small number of technology giants began rapidly moving to consolidate their power by becoming makers of “everything” in our digital lives. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and a few others are maneuvering to make the hardware people use, the operating systems that run those devices, the browsers on which people navigate, the e-mail services on which they communicate, the social networks on which they share and the web platforms on which they shop and play. And all of this will provide these companies with detailed personal data about each consumer. Already in 2011, five technology companies [Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft and AOL] accounted for 68% of all online ad revenue, and that list does...

The fastest-dying industry in America - By Robert Niles: Is any university in America still admitting students as print journalism majors? That question popped into my mind last week when I read a LinkedIn research post that claimed that newspapers have shed a larger percentage of jobs that any other industry in America over the past five years, losing more than 28 percent of its jobs during that time. I mean, wow, everyone in the business knew that newspapers were shrinking, but dead last? And dead last in a down economy? When you consider that many newspaper companies have been trying to add or at least redeploy positions to their online operations, the jobs picture becomes even more grim for the print side of journalism. As far as jobs go, this is - literally - the worst part of the worst industry in the worst economy since the Great Depression. Given that job market, why would any students want to major in print journalism? More importantly - why would any ethical college or university allow those students to do so? ...