A belated happy 3rd birthday to LawMeme!
LawMeme went public July 2, 2001 with this post on facial recognition technology: Tampa uses cameras to scan for wanted faces. Since then, there have been more than 1500 posts on LawMeme. Three years might not seem like a long period of time, but to my knowledge, LawMeme was the first official law school blog, thanks to Prof. Jack Balkin, the Information Society Project and all the people who have posted, worked on it, read it and commented on it over the years. Congrats and many thanks to LawMeme and the LawMeme crew!
Below are some of what I consider the more popular and/or noteworthy posts from the past few years. There are many other great posts, but these are just a few that stand out in my memory.
On Copyright: Top Ten New Copyright Crimes
The First Academic Blawg (and possibly, blog) Conference: Revenge of the Blog
On Privacy: James Grimmelmann's Accidental Privacy Spills: Musings on Privacy, Democracy, and the Internet
On Contract: James Grimmelmann's Google replies to SearchKing lawsuit
On Spam: Rebecca Bolin's Incredible Series LawMeme: Spam
On Biometrics: Fingerprint Follies and the Superman/Clark Kent Biometric Conundrum
On Annotations: Silly Things Directors Say
On the DMCA: Analysis of BNETD and Blizzard
On Gaming: James Grimmelmann's On the Second Life Tax Revolt
On Filesharing: Compulsory Licensing - The Death of Gnutella and the Triumph of Google
First post to get mainstream press notice: US Wields $ Not Law to Censor Satellites