Tech Central Station Archives, part 1: Patent Reform
A couple of weeks ago, Steven Schwartz pointed me towards Tech Central Station. As far as I can tell, James K. Glassman put this site together as a hybrid, lying somewhere between a magazine and a blog. I’ve seen some high quality articles and participated in a few exchanges in the comments section, but comment traffic seems to be relatively light. In addition, it’s kind of tough to search for the conversations in which I’d participated. I don’t remember every place I chimed in, and now I can’t reclaim them easily.
One that I do remember, though, played off a Jim DeLong article about patent reform. I thought I’d try putting in a very provocative (and short) “patents are regulation, not property” post. I mean, why not? That’s what I’m writing right now, and I figured that airing some ideas in public could prove helpful. And it did--but it took a while. My terse statements earned little more than equally terse disagreement. But I did eventually get a dialog going, and I got some useful feedback. Several commenters helped me better understand the source of the confusion--for example, the conflation of “property” and “property rights,” or of “exclusive rights” and “the right to exclude.” I don’t think that I would have spotted those issues on my own. So my blogging has already made The Secret Circuit a better book.
Key blogging lesson.
. . . and once again, tough to include links in the comments.
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