No, not me! This is the best Cafe Press gear I've seen yet!...

I was horrified to hear the USPTO's plan to automate the administration of patents and trademarks includes the destruction of millions of documents. Not only are the current electronic archival systems buggy, the documents themselves represent an important historical and cultural resource. Research institutions and libraries constantly struggle with the promises of "efficient" electronic archival and search systems. Entry errors...

Berkeley's J-school will have students creating an intellectual property weblog in the fall. There's some interesting stuff to be considered here, like websites that want to prevent linking to anything but their homepage [deep linking], copyright, or even libel. Anyways, I can't see that journalists, even with a cursory introduction to intellectual property, will really get it right. Collecting mainstream...