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daithí mac sithigh’s blog on cyberlaw & media law

Reviewing reviews

Today’s Globe and Mail has a provocative column on the state of the book review. Martin Levin (book editor with the Grope and Flail) starts off with an overview of where ‘book pages’ or ‘book sections’ appear in North American newspapers - and makes some observations on newspaper-reviewing vs blogging. While providing a [...]

So what IS a website?

It’s where you post your response.
Statement from the Judicial Communications Office: Mr Justice Openshaw / 17 May 2007
A media report on a judge reported as saying “I don’t really understand what a website is” has been taken out of context.
News reports have appeared implying that Mr Justice Openshaw, in the course of proceedings, did not [...]

Domain names … with sexy results

To match up with a similar photo on his blog, here’s a picture of Kieren McCarthy’s hot-off-the-presses book on the battle (by legal and other means) to secure control of the domain name sex.com (go ahead and click it, it’s just a search page!)
I’ve been waiting for this for a while, and following [...]

Quick, Jeeves! The bubble.

From the dihydrogen monoxide (see also Wiki entry) school of causation comes the shocking fact that the Nintendo DS puts your children at a serious risk of being contacted by a child predator (video). This demands an immediate international treaty to ban all open networks. If successful, we can also restrict all gatherings [...]

 
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