Robert Ambrogi

I had a lot of feedback to my Aug. 28 post, Is the FindLaw Story Getting Distorted? My main point then was that we needed more facts before jumping to conclusions. Since then, more facts have come out, and a particularly good overview of the situation was a piece yesterday by Dow Jones Newswires…

Last week, the FBI arrested blogger Kevin Cogill (a/k/a Skwerl) of Culver City, Calif., on suspicion of violating a federal copyright law for posting nine tracks to his blog from the unreleased and much anticipated Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy. On this week’s legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss…

I was a guest this week on Law Technology Now, the podcast hosted by Monica Bay, editor-in-chief of Law Technology News. Our topic was social and professional networking for lawyers. We discussed my recent two-part column on social and professional networking sites (here and here) and my just-published first…

I’ve been tagged by Diane Levin with the 5 blogs & 5 blawgers meme. The idea is to list five great non-law blogs and then tag five law-bloggers to do the same. My five:

I am honored to have this blog appear today on Tom Mighell’s blog Inter Alia as one of the “Blawg of the Day Hall of Fame.” Tom notes that he first wrote about this blog on Dec. 5, 2002. Next thing you know, they’ll be retiring my number.…

I used to complain that PR professionals were blind to the blogosphere. Now that they’ve discovered it, there are some who could use a good set of blinders to keep them focused on their target audience. I’ll bet I wasn’t the only blogger to get this press release today:

STEVE REZAYAT TO ASCEND AS SPJA

After reading this TalkLeft post about Sarah Palin’s one Alaska Supreme Court appointment, I dug into the site of the Alaska Judicial Council and identified Palin’s 10 appointments to the state’s trial court bench. I also found out that today is the deadline for Palin to fill…

Don’t even think about it, one says to the other.
(Crane’s Beach, Ipswich, Mass.)…

Search giant Google is about to declare war on Internet Explorer and Firefox with the release of its own open-source browser, called Chrome. A beta version will be available tomorrow morning. For more details, read this PC Magazine piece or this comic book overview written by Chrome’s developers.…

It all started when three MIT students put together a presentation for their network security class at MIT about their findings regarding the security vulnerabilities of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s CharlieCard fare-pass system. Just as the students were about to present their findings at DEFCON, the MBTA went to federal court and won a…

The “scandal” making its way around the blogosphere over FindLaw’s allegedly selling text links in violation of Google’s policies is certainly worth discussing and debating. But I am concerned that the facts are being misconstrued in a way that is distorting what should be the focus of the debate. Some blogs portray FindLaw’s sales of…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched the Coders’ Rights Project, devoted to the legal rights and responsibilities of software programmers and developers who are involved in exploring technology through techniques such as reverse engineering and vulnerability testing and reporting. The project’s Web pages include FAQs on reverse engineering and vulnerability reporting…