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Lawrence Lessig (constitutional law professor, author, blogger, Creative Commons innovator) has produced a downloadable version of a presentation he created to address the fair use implications of the Google Books project.

His blog addresses how he created what turned out to be an 85 MB file (available as a BitTorrent seed). The presentation includes the slides and Lessig's voice.

A couple RSS notes:

• FeedMail Now! is a new service that lets you use RSS as a means of communicating with friends and co-workers via RSS feeds instead of email. The press release claims, "FeedMail Now! turns an RSS feed reader into an electronic mailbox. Users of the service can send and receive feedmail messages without the fear of spam or phishing." The tutorial makes it look easy, although everyone you want to contact needs to subscribe to your mailbox feed. Still, they can reply to your messages just as in email. The service is 99-cents per month.
• FeedForAll a wizard-like app that lets you create RSS feeds, has introduced FutureRSS, "a PHP script that converts an RSS feed into HTML and displays only the current RSS feed's items. The FutureRSS script allows webmasters to pre-plan an RSS feed's items and prepare them in advance," according to the press release. It's available free for registered FeedForAll users.
• Online travel service Orbitz has opened an RSS feed that lets you get information on travel deals.

I don't usually join in the "look who's blogging" conversations, since 20-million-plus blogs and a blogosphere doubling every five months means we'd be adding to the list daily, which is a real yawner. But when the International Herald Tribune starts blogging, I figure it's a big enough deal to mention here.

Shel Holtz is principal of Holtz Communication + Technology which focuses on helping organizations apply online communication capabilities to their strategic organizational communications.

As a professional communicator, Shel also writes the blog a shel of my former self.