Archives for September 2012
Faced with a Five-Page Limit, Lawyer Files Cartoon Amicus Brief
A brilliant response to the Justice Department’s e-book antitrust settlement. The brief is available at http://www.abajournal.com/files/AppleAmicusBrief.pdf
The Response to Forward-Thinking: Laughter
“I wanted to be able to send pictures and videos and stuff like that in e-mail…And by the way, when people would ask me, ‘Why do you care so much about putting media into e-mail?’ I always said because someday I’m going to have grandchildren and I want to get pictures of them by e-mail. And people’s reaction was to laugh and laugh.”
Nathaniel Borenstein from The MIME guys: How two Internet gurus changed e-mail forever by Jon Brodkin
Borenstein is one of the co-creators of the MIME protocol, which has made it easy for us to include photos, videos and other attachments in our email for twenty years.