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	<title>weblawg.net: Information Society through the Prism of Law</title>
	
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		<title>How to save a drowning business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/?p=244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a state of economic decline - the cold water - companies will shed their appendages to keep whatever oxygen remains for the vital organs. Like the human body, this results in drowning, as without those extremities, the company can no longer manoeuver in the water. Unlike the human body, this relfex is not hard to reprogram. By trimming the oxygen needs of the vital organs, the extremities can be kept functioning until the water warms.]]></description>
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		<title>Information is the Good, the Currency, and the Era</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/?p=238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m reading “Business @ the Speed of Thought,” by Bill Gates.  (Chapters-Indigo Link Here)  He wrote it ten years ago, which allows me the critical distance I prefer when reading a book that prognosticates.
Say what you will about MS Windows, Mr. Gates knows business.  So I figured his views on business in the post-industrial age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening the Scope of Employee Contribution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/?p=227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just because an employee has a job with certain assigned tasks for which he is responsible, it is nowhere mandated to limit the scope of that employee’s contribution to those tasks.]]></description>
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		<title>On Virtual Travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Information Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Worlds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/?p=222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why would a denizen of a virtual world want to cross over into another virtual world, especially if she couldn&#8217;t bring her special powers, skills, or goods into that other world?  This was the question asked in a comment the other day:  http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/legal-explorations/laws-for-the-virtual-universe/comment-page-1/#comment-3604
There are many examples of the attachment a player feels for his character [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who carries your Web 2.0 banner?</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/communications/who-carries-your-web-20-banner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[goodwill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tazzu]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/?p=214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What's at stake when you let others step in your online footprint?  Goodwill has to do with the perception of your enterprise, and liability has to do with getting into real legal trouble.  How are they connected by this Web 2.0 stuff?  ... Being obnoxious, opinionated, or siding with one side of a contentious debate will not likely create more than a bad taste in the reader's mouth.  Being wrong, when you carry a banner of knowing better, can create a problem.]]></description>
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		<title>Laws for the Virtual Universe</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/legal-explorations/laws-for-the-virtual-universe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Everquest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ondrejka]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/?p=211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What if virtual worlds, no matter their purposes, narratives, unique details, and other variations, could be linked?  What if they had borders between them, keeping the right stuff in its place, but in other ways being permeable?]]></description>
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		<title>The Value of Liberal Arts in a Recession</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/humanities/the-value-of-liberal-arts-in-a-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/?p=209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times recently published an article, "In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth."  The division between science and the humanities is a recent contrivance, and its maintenance has no good historical precedent.  The humanist training, the whetting of mental faculties that not only separate us from the animals but allow us to weigh and manage the fruit and potential fruit of our technical wizardry, is as essential to a growing society as the freedom that makes it possible.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Stallman came to Vancouver, and I upset him</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/richard-stallman-came-to-vancouver-and-i-upset-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/?p=186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Stallman was in Vancouver two weeks ago.  He performed, if I may describe his lectures like that, three times; I caught the first.  I asked Stallman a question after it was over, and thoroughly annoyed him.  I know that I annoyed him because he grew flustered, stamped his feet, turned away from me to the rest of the crowd and yelled at me.]]></description>
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		<title>Does WOM or Social Network Marketing Create Agency?</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/communications/does-wom-or-social-network-marketing-create-agency/</link>
		<comments>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/communications/does-wom-or-social-network-marketing-create-agency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[agency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With WOM and social network marketing, we move from getting people to wear branded clothing to transforming them into fans banding together to pontificate, not on the merits of your product, but on the social imperative of being a fan of the brand.  ...  We do have something that looks a lot like agency...  Once you let someone use the stuff you’re supposed to be protecting, and you let them use it to an extent that gives them a fair bit of potential power because of the near-instantaneous and viral nature of the networks used, you’re actually handing over some pretty hefty reins. ]]></description>
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		<title>What would you call open-source marketing?</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/what-would-you-call-open-source-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/?p=168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Instead of tightening your grip on intellectual property (mostly trade-mark with a healthy dose of copyright and some neighbouring rights) and then hoping for royalties, the group doing the marketing attempts to engineer a type of personality cult for the brand. ...  What I'm talking about is tying differences (real or created) to cultural phenomena, and then grabbing hold of those phenomena and driving from that end; the product becomes a tag-along to those cultural memes.]]></description>
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