TED Video by Amy Cuddy on Body Language for People Giving Speeches, Interviews and Just Generally

Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are | Video on TED.com

What Legal Rights Pass Via the Terms of Service viz. Use of Social Media Portals Such as LinkedIn Facebook or Twitter?

Our Social Times suggests
Read this and re-think your LinkedIn usage
in examining the rights
users grant
to social media portals
by their terms of use.

Just how much of that is actually LEGAL?

Suppression of Free Speech Via Malicious "Attack" Book Reviews at Amazon.com and Sister Sites

A substantial problem with malicious book reviews at Amazon.com and their sister sites is that they constitute suppression of free speech in the name of free speech.

David Streitfeld has the story at The New York Times in A Casualty on the Battlefield of Amazon’s Partisan Book Reviews.

What makes these attacks even more malicious is that the book review posters are often anonymous, have often not even read the books in question, and are posting only because they are primarily interested in suppressing contrary views to their own.

Facebook Search is Actually a ReRun

Owen Thomas has the story
at Business Insider
in The Return Of Facebook Search.

Example Copyright Takedowns Showing How Outdated IP Law Actually Is

John Paul Titlow at ReadWrite
has the story in
5 Absurd Copyright Takedowns That Make The Law Look Outdated.

Facebook May Not be Healthy for You

Science News at Science Daily
reports that Facebook may not be healthy for you.

Read
Facebook makes users feel envious, dissatisfied: German study reveals social network's big role in users' emotional life.

The Remarkable Triptych: Seneca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall

Paul Krugman
writes at the New York Times
about the re-elected U.S. President Barack Obama's inaugural address
in Seneca, Selma, and Stonewall.

Whether one agrees or disagrees, it is in fact a changed world out there.

Trends in Design Patent Suits in U.S. Courts of Law

Lisa Schuchman at Corporate Counsel at Law.com writes that Design Patent Suits Becoming Less Prevalent in U.S. Courts, but it is unclear whether this is a cyclical phenomenon.

Law and Technology: LexisNexis at LegalTech New York presents Cutting Edge Developments in Legal Products

Some cutting edge developments in law
at This is real law #thisisreallaw
where you
"Get a sneak peek at the latest cutting-edge products and technology from LexisNexis at LegalTech® New York 2013".

Twitter Embedded Tweets Update Allows More Content

Drew Olanoff has the story at Tech Crunch in Twitter Updates Embedded Tweets To Include More Content, Context, Speed And Ease Of Use.

China and the Patent Game

See
The Economist
and
How innovative is China?: Valuing patents.

Corporate Legal Communications Relationships via Jomarie Fredericks at INTA, International Trademark Association

At INTA, the International Trademark Association, read Jomarie Fredericks of Rotary International, Evanston, Illinois, Vice Chair of the In-House Practitioners Committee, in Corporate Legal, Marketing and Communications: Let’s All Play Together.

Privacy Law: An Online DNA Sequence Search Reveals Identities and Invades Individual Privacy Rights: It is an "Awareness Moment"

Invasions of privacy as are upcoming via Facebook "graph search" -- if not stopped in their tracks -- are facing individuals from yet another quarter of modern science and technology, namely, genetic DNA data available online.

Gina Kolata has the story at the New York Times in Search of DNA Sequences Reveals Full Identities, writing inter alia:

"“We are in what I call an awareness moment,” said Eric D. Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health.

There is no easy answer about what to do to protect the privacy of study subjects. Subjects might be made more aware that they could be identified by their DNA sequences. More data could be locked behind security walls, or severe penalties could be instituted for those who invade the privacy of subjects.

“We don’t have any claim to have the answer,” Dr. Green said. And opinions about just what should be done vary greatly among experts."

What is clear as a matter of law right now is that we should err on the side of privacy in order to stop a possible avalanche of privacy rights invasions that otherwise will be difficult to stop in the future.

Rights of Life Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness Self-Evident but not Self-Executing Says Re-Elected President Barack Obama in 2013 Inaugural Address: Collective Action Required by We, the People

It was a strong Inaugural Address by re-elected U.S. President Barack Obama.

See
Inaugural Address by President Barack Obama | The White House

Super Bowl XLVII a SuperBaugh Harbowl Bros Bowl

No one will forget this Super Bowl
because of the obvious alternative names:
Bros Bowl, Harbowl, SuperBaugh,
and surely more to come.


See
Super Bowl 47 at NFL.com