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Beware of the Online "Filter Bubble"

Posted by Venkat at 5/17/2011 9:32 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Seeking: a Seth Godin Decoder Ring

Posted by Venkat at 5/4/2011 6:06 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Flourishes in Judicial Opinions

Posted by Venkat at 4/9/2011 11:28 AM | Add Comment

Hotmail Updates

Posted by Venkat at 2/7/2011 8:55 AM | Add Comment

David Kazzie Strikes Again - "So You Want to Close Your Facebook Account?"

Posted by Venkat at 12/13/2010 6:21 PM | Add Comment

Crazy Story of the Week

Posted by Venkat at 12/5/2010 10:04 AM | Add Comment

A Personal Landing Page (About.me)

Posted by Venkat at 11/17/2010 8:25 AM | Add Comment

Rise of the Curators?

Posted by Venkat at 11/11/2010 12:58 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Punctuation Wars

Posted by Venkat at 10/7/2010 10:19 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Was a Copy of the Prop 8 Decision Leaked?

Posted by Venkat at 8/4/2010 5:50 PM | Add Comment

Social Media and Journalism - Downsides?

Posted by Venkat at 4/2/2010 8:02 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The "Clean Break" Question - Follow Up

Posted by Venkat at 3/19/2010 8:30 AM | Add Comment

Should I Make a "Clean Break" With the Blog? -- Looking for a Little Help From Readers

Posted by Venkat at 3/15/2010 9:49 AM | View Comments (10) | Add Comment

The Randazza Fan Club

Posted by Venkat at 11/17/2009 10:52 PM | Add Comment

Prof. Goldman Interviews Cindy Cohn of the EFF

Posted by Venkat at 11/17/2009 11:21 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Reads -- November '09

Posted by Venkat at 11/1/2009 10:35 PM | Add Comment

State of the Blog - Guest-Posting

Posted by Venkat at 10/14/2009 4:42 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Mongols Trademark Seizure Falls Flat

Posted by Venkat at 8/5/2009 10:17 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Facebook Switches Counsel in Power Ventures Lawsuit

Posted by Venkat at 7/23/2009 9:35 PM | Add Comment

The Path to Inbox Zero Isn't Through the Inbox

Posted by Venkat at 6/18/2009 10:36 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Social Notes

Posted by Venkat at 5/20/2009 6:16 AM | Add Comment

Happy 473th Birthday, @ !

Posted by Venkat at 5/4/2009 9:46 PM | Add Comment

Friday Roundup - Spring Fever Edition

Posted by Venkat at 3/6/2009 8:54 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Email Exchange Results in Settlement

Posted by Venkat at 2/26/2009 6:04 AM | Add Comment

Want to Opt-out of Receiving a Phone Book?

Posted by Venkat at 2/24/2009 11:19 PM | Add Comment

Friday Fun: iFart Mobile v. Pull My Finger

Posted by Venkat at 2/13/2009 3:47 PM | Add Comment

Peer-to-Peer Gambling Wins in the Washington Court of Appeals

Posted by Venkat at 2/10/2009 1:58 PM | Add Comment

No More Reply-All For You?

Posted by Venkat at 1/27/2009 2:07 PM | Add Comment

Sunday Communications Roundup [Jan. 11, 2009]

Posted by Venkat at 1/11/2009 2:07 PM | Add Comment

Dec 13, 2008 Links/Odds and Ends

Posted by Venkat at 12/13/2008 9:18 PM | Add Comment

Easter Egg in the WordPress Terms of Service

Posted by Venkat at 11/26/2008 9:13 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

FTC Comments on Do-Not-Call List

Posted by Venkat at 11/10/2008 9:59 PM | Add Comment

Target Pays $$ After Circulating Email Accusing Woman of Counterfeiting

Posted by Venkat at 10/27/2008 8:32 AM | Add Comment

Lawsuit Seeking Disclosure of Palin Emails Filed

Posted by Venkat at 10/10/2008 5:38 AM | Add Comment

Lawyer Slammed for Typos (and Other Errors)

Posted by Venkat at 10/8/2008 7:15 AM | Add Comment

Litigating Against the Blogosphere

Posted by Venkat at 10/3/2008 10:23 AM | Add Comment

Sign up For Northwest Miles and Receive Emails from Paypal?

Posted by Venkat at 10/1/2008 12:38 PM | Add Comment

Frontier Justice on the Internet

Posted by Venkat at 9/16/2008 6:47 AM | Add Comment

Take Us to County!

Posted by Venkat at 9/15/2008 2:42 PM | Add Comment

Holy Smoke! - Splintered Wash S.Ct. Upholds Indoor Smoking Ban

Posted by Venkat at 9/11/2008 7:55 AM | Add Comment

Copyright in Graffiti?

Posted by Venkat at 9/9/2008 8:55 PM | Add Comment

Email Gaffes - "About That Email Offer We Sent You . . . ."

Posted by Venkat at 9/8/2008 12:29 PM | Add Comment

Infringements by Political Campaigns

Posted by Venkat at 9/4/2008 7:56 PM | Add Comment

See Wikipedia?

Posted by Venkat at 9/2/2008 6:52 PM | Add Comment

Quick Links - August 28, 2008

Posted by Venkat at 8/28/2008 5:44 PM | Add Comment

Wash S. Ct. Cell Phone Contract Arbitration Unconscionable

Posted by Venkat at 8/28/2008 9:20 AM | Add Comment

The Demise of the Yellow Legal Pad

Posted by Venkat at 8/24/2008 5:58 PM | Add Comment

Obama's Text Message Debacle?

Posted by Venkat at 8/22/2008 10:06 PM | Add Comment

Friday Fun: Bitter Lawyer

Posted by Venkat at 8/22/2008 2:27 PM | Add Comment

Brevity is Also the Soul of Pleading

Posted by Venkat at 7/4/2008 7:39 AM | Add Comment

Politicians, Watch Out When you Twitter!

Posted by Venkat at 6/28/2008 6:10 AM | Add Comment

Email Evidence

Posted by Venkat at 6/10/2008 10:47 PM | Add Comment

Prank Call, Prank Call

Posted by Venkat at 6/9/2008 2:39 PM | Add Comment

Justice Scalia Bums Smoke from SJP; Forced to Recuse in Upcoming Punitives Case?

Posted by Venkat at 6/9/2008 10:44 AM | Add Comment

Best Online Language Tools

Posted by Venkat at 6/9/2008 7:27 AM | Add Comment

Quick Links

Posted by Venkat at 6/5/2008 5:17 AM | Add Comment

Friday Quick Links

Posted by Venkat at 5/30/2008 7:34 AM | Add Comment

Man Opens 58,000 Brokerage Accounts to Collect Micro-Deposits

Posted by Venkat at 5/28/2008 7:18 AM | Add Comment

The Digital Age = Bad Legal Writing?

Posted by Venkat at 5/9/2008 10:16 PM | Add Comment

Blackberry v. Twitter Trademark Dispute

Posted by Venkat at 4/2/2008 1:38 PM | Add Comment

Comcast Phone's Default Opt-in for Marketing

Posted by Venkat at 3/23/2008 12:58 PM | Add Comment

Quick Links

Posted by Venkat at 3/19/2008 9:44 PM | Add Comment

Lawyers Being Lawyers

Posted by Venkat at 3/14/2008 7:27 AM | Add Comment

Why is Outlook 2007 Slow?

Posted by Venkat at 2/19/2008 11:59 AM | Add Comment

Proper Semicolon Usage

Posted by Venkat at 2/18/2008 7:21 AM | Add Comment

Email Delivery Companies Square Off Over Noncompete

Posted by Venkat at 2/15/2008 1:03 PM | Add Comment

Payphones Are Like Urinals

Posted by Venkat at 2/13/2008 1:33 PM | Add Comment

Wow

Posted by Venkat at 2/6/2008 12:19 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Copying the Client

Posted by Venkat at 2/5/2008 7:45 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Arbitrator Certifies Early Termination Claims Against Verizon

Posted by Venkat at 1/29/2008 8:51 AM | Add Comment

Seattle Law Bloggers

Posted by Venkat at 1/15/2008 10:31 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

On to 2008

Posted by Venkat at 1/11/2008 5:27 AM | Add Comment

You've Got a Class Action Waiver!

Posted by Venkat at 11/20/2007 5:26 PM | Add Comment

What's Up With Typepad

Posted by Venkat at 11/14/2007 10:40 PM | Add Comment

9th Cir. to C.D. Cal. Judge – “Email Service Doesn’t Necessarily Cut It”

Posted by Venkat at 11/14/2007 1:28 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Romance in the Digital Age

Posted by Venkat at 11/5/2007 10:16 AM | Add Comment

Nonstarter

Posted by Venkat at 11/2/2007 7:02 AM | Add Comment

Unchecking the Box

Posted by Venkat at 10/24/2007 9:40 PM | Add Comment

Yahoo Sweats the Chinese Dissident Matter

Posted by Venkat at 10/16/2007 1:57 PM | Add Comment

The Spam Filter Ate It

Posted by Venkat at 10/16/2007 8:27 AM | Add Comment

Ohio Content-Harmful-to-Minor Statute Enjoined

Posted by Venkat at 9/28/2007 7:16 AM | Add Comment

The Telecommuting Justice

Posted by Venkat at 9/24/2007 10:14 AM | Add Comment

Cameras in Courtrooms

Posted by Venkat at 9/6/2007 6:36 AM | Add Comment

Friday Roundup - Labor Day Weekend

Posted by Venkat at 8/31/2007 8:03 AM | Add Comment

Spamhaus Rebuffed by Seventh Circuit

Posted by Venkat at 8/31/2007 6:10 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

2 Suspicious Looking Men on a Ferry

Posted by Venkat at 8/21/2007 9:31 PM | Add Comment

Argued From the Couch

Posted by Venkat at 8/16/2007 6:23 AM | Add Comment

WA S. Ct: Class Action Waiver Untenable

Posted by Venkat at 7/12/2007 7:37 AM | Add Comment

Court to Lawyer: Whitelist the Court Domain Name!

Posted by Venkat at 7/10/2007 10:55 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

A Disturbing Trend

Posted by Venkat at 7/10/2007 10:31 PM | Add Comment

Quick Links

Posted by Venkat at 7/6/2007 8:14 AM | Add Comment

Emails ~ Privilege Log - Should the Privilege Log List Every Single Email?

Posted by Venkat at 6/26/2007 10:42 PM | Add Comment

Unsolicited Political Messages

Posted by Venkat at 6/25/2007 10:36 PM | Add Comment

Vonage

Posted by Venkat at 6/25/2007 10:34 PM | Add Comment

Bruce Fein: Critical of WhiteHouse Email Policies

Posted by Venkat at 6/25/2007 7:40 AM | Add Comment

6th Cir. Stored Communication Decision

Posted by Venkat at 6/18/2007 10:39 AM | Add Comment

Font Stuff

Posted by Venkat at 5/29/2007 12:19 PM | Add Comment

Note: Turn off Caller ID When Witness Tampering

Posted by Venkat at 5/17/2007 11:06 PM | Add Comment

Noted Without Comment

Posted by Venkat at 5/17/2007 8:44 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks

Receipt Litigation

Posted by Venkat at 5/17/2007 6:02 AM | Add Comment
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Venkat Balasubramani
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Media Mentions and Articles

Media Mentions:

The twisted world of online copyright
(Econsultancy; Nov. 11, 2010)

Rise and Fall of a Spam Crusader
(North Coast Journal; Sept. 30, 2010)

Appeals court absolves firm that exposed man's SSN
(The Register; June 4, 2010)

Spam--a Lot
(ABA Journal/Wendy Davis; March 1, 2010)

Texas county to name drunk drivers on Twitter
(SF Gate/IDG News; Dec. 24, 2009)

Starbucks sued after laptop data breach (NetworkWorld.com; Feb. 23, 2009)

Spam pins 'Strong Arm' Missed court date earns Frank Azar judge's reprimand
(Rocky Mountain News)

Microsoft Sues More Hotmail Spammers
(PC World)

Zango Sues Antispyware Vendor PC Tools (InfoWorld)

Software Notebook: Two major spam cases end up in Seattle
(Seattle PI)

Venkat on Copyright and More 1/2
(Rasmus Rasmussen Dot Com; May 22, 2009)

Court Limits Third-Party Text Message Ads
(Inside Counsel; September 1, 2009)

Articles:

CAN-SPAM Put to the Test (cNet; May 22, 2007)

Spyware Skirmishes: Spy Versus Antispy (cNet; June 5, 2007)

Recent Posts

  1. Athletes and Singers Have Coaches. Should Lawyers?
    Thursday, October 06, 2011
  2. Lawyers and Klout
    Thursday, August 25, 2011
  3. Koncision's NDA Builder
    Thursday, June 16, 2011
  4. Are Social Media Legal Issues Overhyped?
    Saturday, June 04, 2011
  5. Beware of the Online "Filter Bubble"
    Tuesday, May 17, 2011
  6. Seeking: a Seth Godin Decoder Ring
    Wednesday, May 04, 2011
  7. What Lawyers Can Learn From Journalists
    Tuesday, April 26, 2011
  8. The Vandals Blast Variety Magazine and its Lawyers
    Monday, April 18, 2011
  9. What is the "iPad for Lawyers" Crowd Smoking?
    Sunday, April 10, 2011
  10. Flourishes in Judicial Opinions
    Saturday, April 09, 2011

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    6/5/2011
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