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The Copyfight crew has been joined by a new contributor: Alan Wexelblat. Alan, who got his PhD at MIT's Media Lab, works for EMC-Legato and runs HOVIR, an independent consultancy, and has been a longtime commentator on copyright issues. His first post: discussion of charges brought by the federal government against the pornmaker Extreme Associates that were thrown out by a U.S. District Judge in Pennsylvania the other day.
For those in the Bay Area tomorrow night, consider stopping by the Mill Valley Community Center where Corante contributor Zack Lynch, David Pescovitz, Will Block, and Wrye Sententia will be discussing the rapidly evolving world of neurotechnology. More info here.
Among the sponsors we're excited about who've come aboard of late: Boston's WGBH. They're looking to alert people to the launch of NOVA scienceNOW, the new quarterly magazine show from PBS that's hosted by Robert Krulwich, and we're thrilled they see the value in getting in front of Corante's readers. To find out more about the show, visit: pbs.org/nova/sciencenow
We're launching the second in our expanding "Vision" series. This new one - The Future of Wireless - looks at the broad impact the move to mobility is having on companies and individuals through the eyes of leading analysts, cutting edge entrepreneurs, savvy government types and others. The series, sponsored by Earthlink Wireless, looks at the ways people and businesses are connecting, interacting, finding and sharing data, improving business processes and productivity, and more.
The EventLab team offers up an hour-long podcast on the challenges of podcasting. In on the discussion: Alex Williams of Corante, Eric Rice of EricRice.com, Greg Narain of Beercasting and Michael Geoghegan of ReelReview. Among the topics discussed: editorial issues, production hurdles, tools and technologies to use, and more. Tune in here...
Corante, a collaborator in the Blog Business Summit that's slated for January 24th and 25th in Seattle, has arranged for a limited number of readers to get a deep discount to the conference ($395 instead of $795). For more info, go here. To get the discount available to Corante readers, go here.
Coming to Corante on January 18: a webcast with a knockout panel that'll be discussing the the enterprise real-time collaboration market. The host: Stowe Boyd. The panelists: Joe Hildebrand of Jabber, Chase McMichael of Oracle, Alan Gartenberg of IBM, Larry Meadows of Microsoft. and Alex Pozin of Opentext. Sign up now as there are a limited number of seats. More info here.
Tune in to the third interview from our Orb Networks-sponsored series on the Future of Digital Media. Our first two: Jeff Jarvis and Tim Wu. Our third: venture capitalist, former Napster CEO and longtime IT lawyer Hank Barry. Up for discussion: evolving business models, search marketing, Danger Mouse, intellectual property law and copyright reform, the INDUCE Act and more...