As his bio states:

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author and technology activist. He won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 2000. HeElectronic Frontier Foundation.

I came across his article Digital Rights Management at ChangeThis recently. As he says in his introduction:

I’m here today to talk to you about copyright, technology and DRM, I work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation on copyright stuff (mostly), and I live in London. I’m not a lawyer—I’m a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM. I lead a double life: I’m also a science fiction writer. That means I’ve got a dog in this fight, because I’ve been dreaming of making my living from writing since I was 12 years old. Admittedly, my IP-based biz isn’t as big as yours, but I guarantee you that it’s every bit as important to me as yours is to you.

You can find the article at ChangeThis or download it by clicking here:Digital Rights Management

As his bio states:

Barry is a nationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship who has given over 100 speeches to audiences ranging from 20 to 20,000. He was appointed by the Illinois Governor in 2005 to serve on the board of the Institute for Entrepreneurship Education (IIEE). As a member of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, he also has taught entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He founded an angel investor group, an angel fund, and is a former advisory member of the board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation. He is the author of You Need to Be A Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business and Bounce! Failure, Resiliency and the Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success.

I came across his article 100 Ways to Kill a Concept: Why Most Ideas Get Shot Down at ChangeThis recently. It says:

You need to let go of the idea that there is always something to learn from failure or that you can always build and duplicate your success. Get ready for your next great success by letting go and bouncing.

You can find the article at ChangeThis or download it by clicking here: Striving for Minimal Achievement

I love this Jane Brody Personal Health review Sorting Out Coffee’s Contradictions published today at the online New York Times. As I have said before, I embraced coffee as my drug of choice when I started law school, having survived graduate school’s all nighters with it. But for a VERY brief flirtation with green tea (which I NEVER liked — an authority had stated that if you only cut out coffee, you would lose 10 pounds over the course of a year and I HAD to try that — I only lasted about 1 month, if I recall — it wasn’t going to be worth it even if true), I remain committed to coffee. Here’s an excerpt from Jane’s article:

[A]s with any product used to excess, consumers often wonder about the health consequences. And researchers readily oblige. Hardly a month goes by without a report that hails coffee, tea or caffeine as healthful or damns them as potential killers.

Can all these often contradictory reports be right? Yes. Coffee and tea, after all, are complex mixtures of chemicals, several of which may independently affect health.

Here are some stats provided with the article to keep in mind:

Here are links to my earlier posts about coffee art, and about super coffee.

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I posted here announcing the premier edition of my column at the work-life online magazine The Complete Lawyer, distributed to some 300,000 attorneys nation-wide. The column is co-written with Vickie Pynchon, Diane Levin, and Stephanie West Allen.

The theme of this issue of The Complete Lawyer (Vol. 4, No. 4) is “What’s Your Exit Strategy?”Here’s the newest installment of “The Human Factor,” what we have learned from mediation and negotiation that can have very broad application in your life and work.

Here’s the link to the previous column on how we came to be mediators.

This just announced (well, last night) by ChangeThis:

Beginning [today, July 25], and running through August 4th, Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Macmillan Audio will be offering the audio edition of Thomas Friedman’s THE WORLD IS FLAT for free. Listeners will receive the audiobook in three easy-to-download sections, and soon after that, as an added bonus, will also receive an exclusive prepublication audio excerpt of Friedman’s HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED: WHY WE NEED A GREEN REVOLUTION AND HOW IT CAN RENEW AMERICA. The book itself will be released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on September 8th.

Jeff Seroy, Senior Vice President of marketing and publicity at FSG, said the purpose of this audio giveaway is to “celebrate Friedman’s enormous influence on our lives and times. And in preparation for the release of his new book, a green manifesto and a continuation in many ways of his thinking in THE WORLD IS FLAT, we want to enable anyone who hasn’t already read THE WORLD IS FLAT to catch up with Friedman’s argument and vision for the future.”

If you’d like to receive these free audio downloads, sign up at the address below:

http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/giveaway

Enjoy!

No, I am not seriously advising anyone to drink … but my culinary favs include coffee, dark chocolate and red wine, and it’s always fun to find that they might be “good” for me!This from today’s New York Times:

Red Wine May Curb Fat Cells