Show #29, my interview with Prof. Mark Lemley of Stanford Law School is posted. Thanks again to Mark for taking time out of a very busy schedule to be on the show. The timing of the show is great, given the flood of patent cases in the Supreme Court. As the show was aired on [...]

Stay tuned for Show #29, my interview with Prof. Mark Lemley of Stanford Law School, to be posted early this week. Also, on Monday and Tuesday, February 26 and 27, I’ll be at the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose, California, for anyone who’d like to say hello! Hope to see you there!

No sooner than announced, show #27, Prof. Emeritus Richard A. Lanham of UCLA, discussing his book “The Economics of Attention,” and #28, Julian Dibbell, discussing his book “Play Money, Or, How I Quit My Job and Struck It Rich In Virtual Loot Farming, are posted. Prof. Lanham was an excellent guest, and, as I discussed [...]

Long time listeners (that is, those who have listened to Hearsay Culture for over four months) know that schedule changes do occur. More often than not, it is because of my work/personal responsibilities, but on occasion it is for better reasons. The below is such a change. Prof. Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago [...]

I very much enjoyed talking with Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) on government secrecy and the efforts of the FAS to access government information. His show is now posted. What I particularly like about FAS’ Project on Government Secrecy, and to which I subscribe, is the email newsletter Secrecy News. It [...]

One logistical goal of launching this site was to have it done by January 31, 2007. I met this deadline, but you may wonder, why January 31, 2007? The reason is below: Noah was born on February 1, 2007 and both my wife and my son are doing well. I am extremely grateful and thankful [...]