Interesting New Blog

A "recently admitted part time 1L" has a new blog called Tex Lex, and today's post about new technology is fascinating. He introduces me to two new concepts, Wi-Fi cell phones and digital music on eBay (though without links... blogs need links!), and has this to say about his legal interests:

It's innovation like this that keeps me employed in the industry I'm in and it's the legal consequences of these technologies that are prompting me to go to law school. Legally, we have no idea how to regulate either of these industries and the people in charge are too old and too far removed from actual users to understand the legal impacts of the decisions they are making (like the DCMA, for example). Yes, that's a broad generalization and yes, there are senior citizens who are avid users of the latest and greatest technologies available today, but if Michael Powell fully understood the implications of allowing the Baby Bells to buy up all the cell phone companies and to then buy up all the Wi-Fi providers, he might object to these mergers a little louder than he has recently. Competing technologies are not as useful to consumers if they are all owned and priced by the same companies.

Good point.