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April 04, 2005

Lecture: Graduate Seminar Paper Workshop

Review and discussion of graduate seminar paper topics. Graduate students will make very brief presentations about their projects, while all students will offer constructive criticism.

No readings assigned, except the web/email reading described below.

Assignment: BLOG POST: Keeping up with new developments

New Media Law & Policy is an area that changes rapidly. For this assignment, subscribe to an email news service that updates you on new developments in New Media Law & Policy. Then, choose a news item from that service and write a blog entry that relates the item to a topic covered in the class. Answer the question: how is this item an example of a concept or other material from a reading, lecture, or discussion? Note that if the material in the item is EXACTLY the same as what was presented in class or in a reading, do not choose it for this assignment. The point of this assignment is to extend your knowledge about a topic we have discussed beyond what was said in class.

Please remain subscribed to the digest after this assignment. You are welcome to subscribe to more than one service (or all of them). If you have not received any messages by the time you want to write this blog entry, just look in the Web archives for the digest to find a relevant entry. In your blog entry, include the URL of the item, if there is one, and specify which service(s) you subscribed to. DEADLINE: 1 p.m. -- one hour before class begins.

Choose from the following:

• Quicklinks (daily -- regulatory aspects of ICTS -- biased toward Europe)
• BENTON-COMPOLICY (daily, small, US-only)
• BNA Internet Law News (daily, detailed -- many court decisions)
• ICT Weekly (weekly -- European centered, mix of tech news and policy)
• The Register Internet & Law Newsletter (subscribe | archives) (daily, sarcastic, biased toward English-speaking countries)
• Cybertelecom-L-Announce (subscribe | archives) (daily US federal activity and all FCC actions)
• CommsUpdate [SCROLL DOWN to see it] (daily, truly international, focuses on business)

If you prefer, instead of an email digest you can obtain a digest of one of the following blogs. These are more informal, contain personal and irrelevant posts, and usually appear irregularly. You must sign up to receive new blog posts in an email digest (otherwise you will probably forget to read the blog). To do this, register for a free RSS-to-email service like Bloglet. To use Bloglet, register, then press "Your Subscriptions" and enter one of these addresses into the box marked "To subscribe to an RSS feed, enter the address below:"

• Slashdot -- Your Rights Online (news items contributed by users) http://yro.slashdot.org/yro.rss
• Tales of the Sausage Factory (Harold Feld of the Media Access Project) [this is a category in a larger group blog -- if you subscribe to this you also get all of the larger wetmachine.com blog, too] http://www.wetmachine.com/xml-rss2.php
• lessig blog: (law prof Larry Lessig) http://lessig.org/index.rdf
• boingboing (a group blog often about technology and intellectual property) http://boingboing.net/index.xml
• werblog (business prof Kevin Werbach) http://werblog.com/rss.xml