The Life After Law School Podcast

No new audio for the moment, as I'm working through technical issues before releasing Part II of my interview with Thomas "cmdln" Gideon.

I am dropping into the feed the recent report from the U.S. Goverment Accountability Office (GAO) released on October 26, 2009, discussing the cost and access to law schools.  This is just the report itself and I will likely look at it more closely in a future episode.  The report is GA0-09-941 and you can find more information on the GAO and this report at their website http://www.gao.gov/ .

I'm going to work on the technical issues in the meantime.

Happy Halloween and we'll see you next time!

-Kevin

The Life After Law School Podcast

I have the honor of honors to bring you an interview with the self-described curmudgeon, hacker and hacktivist - Thomas "cmdln" Gideon of the Command Line Podcast, where he is producer and host.  He is an incredibly gifted podcaster, mentor and friend.  I asked Thomas to speak about the philosophy, practice and art involved in hacktivism, and its two component pieces: hacking and activism.  This is a wonderful discussion defining and describing all three terms, adding a layer of practical application to everyday life.

This is Part One focusing on the first half of the word hacktivism: hacking.  A lawyer, or soon to be lawyer, can take many fine lessons from Thomas' descriptions of how a hacker will task themself to learn everything they can from a certain system, any system.  I would say that an attorney would be greatly challenged, but equally rewarded, for looking at our legal system and industry through the eyes of a hacker at law.

For more on Thomas, check out:

The Command Line Podcast - http://thecommandline.net/
Open Media Review - http://openmediareview.com/

News:

"Uniform Bar Exam Drawing Closer to Reality" by Leigh Jones in the National Law Journal - http://tinyurl.com/yz58o3d

Promos:

7th Son: Descent - Buy it on October 27, 2009 - http://jchutchins.net/ (3:15)

Into the Blender Podcast - http://www.intotheblender.com/ (46:45)

Below are some links providing background information for you from our discussion:

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution by Glyn Moody
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling
The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain
Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace , Version 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig

Richard Stallman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_stallman
Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org
Jamie Zawinski (JWZ) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jwz
John Resig - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Resig
Brendan Eich - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
John Draper - Captain Crunch - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper

HacDC - http://hacdc.org/
3D Printing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3d_printing
BarCamp - http://www.barcamp.org/
BarCamp Wiki article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp
Privacy Camp - http://barcamp.org/PrivacyCampDC
Congress Camp - http://congresscamp.org/
Gov 2.0 Camp - http://barcamp.org/Government20Camp
Makerspaces - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makerspaces
Electronic Frontier Foundation - http://www.eff.org/
EFF Wiki article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation
The Streisand Effect - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striesand_effect
PACER - http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/
RECAP - https://www.recapthelaw.org/

Once again, I apologize for sounding like a farm mouse lost in a tin can.  In the future, I might go back and re-record and re-engineer part of that interview.  For now, the overall context of the interview is intact and Thomas sounds great.

Part Two discussing activism will drop shortly.

Remember that 7th Son: Descent is coming out in print on October 27, 2009.  This is one of, if not the, most explosive podcast novels to ever hit your ears.  Now, it's ready for its hardcover debut!

Thank you, Thomas!

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