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On Friday, January 26, 2007, the TechTrends series at BGSU will host E. Michael Harrington as he presents Copyright Issues in YouTube, Second Life and Other Adventures in the Metaverse: Music, Law, Politics and Higher Education. The presentation will begin at 2:30 PM and go until 3:30 PM, which I believe will be followed by a question and answer session.

Information about the event can be found at the TechTrends series page. The more interesting part will be what he has to say about the “effects of the new 110th Congress upon technology, artistic expression, education and law, and an analysis of the likely role of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) in new Internet and technology issues.” I’m sure it’ll be a decent presentation, and depending on what I get out of it, I’ll try and put something up afterwards.

For those that care, Dr. Harrington also has a website which can be found at http://www.emichaelharrington.com/.

I also see that there will be another presentation in the TechTrends series on February 28th. (Of course has a multicolor image thing that says “techtrends” but is referred to as “Tech Trends”. Pick one and stick with it.) that presentation will be called Why Should We Care About Net Neutrality?, so I’ve already made plans to attend.

Since I’m kinda bored with playing DDO at home, I should look into some Internet/social network/et cetera literature. I have some books at home, but they’re getting more and more outdated. I have Ray Kurzweil’s book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, but I lost interest in it after 60 pages or so. One day I’ll get back to it, but I don’t think it’ll be the book to get me back into reading such books. I also have Small Pieces Loosely Joined, and I could re-read that, but since it is published in 2002, it might be a little outdated. I’ll scrounge around and see what the Internet or Amazon suggest, and either order or go purchase something later this week or weekend.