Time Change

Time change this weekend - remember to fall back an hour.

LLRX CI resources updated

Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide - Updated and Revised October 2009

By Sabrina I. Pacifici, Published on October 11, 2009
http://www.llrx.com/features/ciguide.htm

More choices

Now Barnes and Noble has an ebook reader.

Is it first sale or license? Still murky

Ars Technica has published articles before on the AutoCad case in the 9th circuit.

AutoCAD resale ruling a messy win for first-sale doctrine

Despite Autodesk's claim it has never "sold" a copy of AutoCAD to anyone, a federal judge found that restrictive software licenses can act much like sales. Thanks to the decision, AutoCAD can be resold on eBay—but courts are still all over the place on this issue.

By Nate Anderson
Last updated October 7, 2009 6:15 AM CT
Ars Technica

Google Book Settlement

http://www.mediabistro.com/baynewser/google_book_settlement/

This site presents a useful timeline with pros and cons about the settlement.
Includes links to documents and other stories of note.

Further, richly detailed information is found at http://thepublicindex.org/.
The Public Index is a project of the Public-Interest Book Search Initiative and the
Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School.

New Federal Register site

Data.gov is now open, as well as FederalRegister.gov. See details in this Washington Post article.

Distracted driving

Driven to Distraction : At 60 M.P.H., Office Work Is High Risk

Chang W. Lee
The New York Times

Published: September 30, 2009

Thought-provoking article on the issues with attempting to drive and use cell phones and/or computers for calls, texts, emails, and direction dispatchs.