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These are my links for 29th February 2008 through 12th March 2008:

Spam from Gmail doubled last month | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-11 | By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service - “”It’s only a matter of time before [CAPTCHAs] are comprehensively defeated,” said Paul Wood, senior analyst at MessageLabs.”
Abandoning patents - when to do [...]

Via jobs.ac.uk
The holder of this tenure track position is expected to focus on trans-border protection of intellectual property rights and to co-operate with the other disciplines represented in the Cluster as well as with the junior research group on normative conditions of development aid policy. Applicants should have a strong record in international economic law [...]

Today for those of you in Austin. These events are always fun, and this year looks really interesting. (FYI, I used to be on the EFF-Austin board…)
For those who still don’t have plans, EFF-Austin is co-sponsoring a SXSW party this Monday at Scholz Garten. This year’s shindig (titled Plutopia) includes music by Carl Stone, [...]

Please save the date for the Yale Information Society Project’s (Yale ISP) third annual Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K3) on September 8-10, 2008. In a departure from precedent, please note that this year’s conference will take place in Geneva, Switzerland.
The location and timing will enable this year’s event to reach out to a significant [...]

An event I wish, but will be unable, to attend:
American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property; Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law; and Women and the Law Program present the Fifth Annual Symposium on IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections. The symposium explores the rich intersection of intellectual property [...]

Hi everyone — I’m going to have a reduced posting schedule for the month of March due to personal and professional commitments over this month, but I will return in April to a regular posting schedule. My posts here will probably be limited to link collections and maybe the occasional note. Thanks!