The 2008 date for Idea Festival previously posted were pulled from its website, but apparently an old version lingering out in cyberspace. Embarrassing long story short, Stephanie West Allen received a comment from a reader, passed it on to me, I called the Idea Festival office, so now you have the correct dates.Read More

Idealawg‘s Stephanie West Allen and I are coordinating a gathering of lawyers who blog at next year’s Idea Festival. Of course the “Idea” in Stephanie’s blawg name is no accident, and this festival is right up her alley, as she posted here. My suspicions are that most lawyers who have blogs are innovative creative thinkers...Read More

The day began with The Internet is NOT Flat . Ethan Zuckerman was joined by international bloggers Amira Al Hussaini, former news editor of leading Bahrain newspaper Gulf Daily News and now Middle East and North Africa editor of Global Voices and Georgia Poppelwell to discuss fascinating international bridge building and discourse occurring on the...Read More

My favorite quotes of the day include “A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play” (source anonymous but shared by robotics whiz, James McLurkin), “Why fill my mind with useless facts when I can look it up?” (Einstein, who didn’t know his own phone number) and “it takes...Read More

There’s no telling when anyone at Idea Festival had a more inspiring, thought-provoking day. Who wants to have a contest guessing the average IQ of the speakers? While I took my laptop, there was just too much to absorb and enjoy that I didn’t want to write while listening. Running interference at the office by...Read More

I am looking forward to the Idea Festival in Louisville this Thursday, September 13, 2007 through Saturday, September 15, 2007, a time to immerse in creativity, imagination, and pondering the future. This event encourages blogging and even has its own blog, Idea Festival Blog. It’s not too late to give the brain an energy boost...Read More

Marcia Oddi at Indiana Law Blog has been doing my work for me while I was on vacation with her post here quoting from the L.A. Times about a recent decision holding that unlike remarriage, a registered domestic partnership does not terminate alimony. State marriage laws say that alimony ends when the former spouse remarries,...Read More

PR and Law Firm Marketing was the video clip about blogs that was presented at the March, 2007 American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers meeting and seminar at Grand Cayman, Island about which I posted here. President Gaetano Ferro gave me permission to post it, commenting that it was well received and deserved to be disseminated....Read More

Justia Legal Resources follows more than 1800 legal blogs, covering many legal fields. This week Divorce Law Journal ranks #1 among the family law blogs out of 52 total, and #58 among all 1845 legal blogs. I don’t track their rankings regularly but I was pleased to see this. I don’t claim to know how...Read More