Tag: Legal

  • IFTTT v Pinboard Redux – Contracts and Condescension

    IFTTT v Pinboard Redux – Contracts and Condescension

    When I wrote about the IFTTT v Pinboard standoff yesterday, I didn’t spend much time on the contract stuff in my article. Here are a few more thoughts about just how objectionable those contract clauses are and why I believe we are the ones caught in the middle of this mess.

  • Returning to a 14 year old career

    Returning to a 14 year old career

    One of the transitions I feel most comfortable about is my switch to a job in marketing for imonomy, an online in-image advertising company. It’s easy to think that my transition from being a lawyer to being a content marketing person is the real career shift. In some ways, it is, but I realised that…

  • Laws are not just relevant after an event

    @pauljacobson laws are relevant after an event, culture dictates before. — Craig Rodney (@Craigrodney) July 25, 2013 Craig Rodney wrote a post I agree with, to a degree, earlier today and which he titled "Cultivating a social culture”. He makes an argument for culture’s primacy as a preventative tool for many risks and I agree…