Novel Ways to Make Money - Saviour to the Harried Driver Hounded by the Parking Meter Police
Awhile back I blogged about a service called Feed The Meter that a friend of mine started in New Orleans to feed parking meters and thus prevent people from getting tickets (there are limitations, such as they only put in enough to save you for like 30 minutes or something like that). Anyway, I noticed recently that the site was touted for its novel advertising model, because they make money by selling advertising that goes on a flyer that gets put on the car's windshield when it is "saved" by the FeedTheMeter person. So congratulations to Bill Korovilas, who is the owner-operator. He is also a hell of a great IT guy, and I think he's graduating from college and will be moving back to Chicago so if you people in the Windy City need a smart, ambitious, and very computer-savvy guy check out Bill's resume (available here) and see if you have a place for him.
12:50:35 AM
Automobile Lemon Laws
A friend asked me to give him advice about Louisiana's lemon laws because someone he knows bought a crappy car. I did the Google search and found this useful site that summarizes the lemon laws for each State. It also provides the statutes for each State. No statute for Louisiana, according to the site (this appears to be wrong, but I have to finish my Westlaw search later), but there is a good Lemon law guide from the State Attorney General's office. Too bad the Louisiana lemon law statute is not freely available online. This reminds me, Rory is right when he says that Law should be free.
12:31:58 AM
In the few years since the Internet has become an important venue for commerce, communications and entertainment, so-called cybercops have tried to impose a variety of rules, regulations and guidelines to protect the interests of consumers and businesses. Unfortunately, however, no mechanism yet exists to enforce such initiatives. [GigaLaw]
It would be better if it were totally immune from control, but it isn't. So brace yourself for continued efforts to regulate. I think most of the efforts to steer the Internet through regulation are the product of people with moral, religious and other furrowed-brow type concerns. Nice people and all, but not generally the sort to let the electrons seek their own orbit. And not the sort of people who are willing to ponder the Zen aphorism: "if you want to control a cow, give it a bigger pasture."
12:03:30 AM
