AP story: The Red Her­ring tech mag is fold­ing. March will be its last issue. The Her­ring fol­lows on the heels of Upside and the Indus­try Stan­dard. Thanks to Boing­Bo­ing for the pointer.

Just got back from a day­long con­fer­ence at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Busi­ness on the sub­ject of DRM, or dig­i­tal rights man­age­ment. In many ways it was the West Coast ver­sion of the I-Law con­fer­ence at Harvard’s Berk­man School last July. Some 300 folks jammed into the hall for most of the day (the con­fer­ence runs three days, but today was the big enchilada).

Lot of famil­iar faces here, many of whom I’ve inter­viewed for the book I’m writ­ing on dig­i­tal rights: Cary Sher­man, Larry Lessig, Edward Fel­ten, Sarah Deutsch, Dave Far­ber, Don­ald White­side, Chris Mur­ray, and oth­ers. Media folks in atten­dance included Dan Gill­mor, Drew Clark of the National Jour­nal, Katie Dean of Wired News and I think Amy Har­mon of the NY Times. The blog­ger crowd was also out in force, include EFF’s Seth Schoen, Lisa Rein, Aaron Schwarz and others.

Blog­gers who did a ter­rific job of blog­ging the con­fer­ence live — yes, they had a wifi con­nec­tion — included Dan, Bryan Alexan­der, Lawrence Solum and 16-year-old Aaron, who’s wise beyond his years. So I wound up tak­ing more pho­tos than notes (though I tape-recorded the pro­ceed­ings). So I’ll share some here.

Cary Sher­man, pres­i­dent of RIAA (click to enlarge):

Dave Far­ber, whose mail­ing list at the Univ. of Penn. is over 30,000 strong:

Sarah Deutsch, VP and asso­ciate gen­eral coun­sel of Verizon:

Prof. Edward Fel­ten, left, and Prof. Larry Lessig:

The Google Friends mail­ing list offers a free email newslet­ter that goes out every two months or so. Thanks to Sree for the pointer.

Steve Out­ing at the Poyn­ter has a fol­lowup to the items I posted Mon­day here and in OJR Edi­tors Log on Projo tak­ing down its reg­is­tra­tion fence for its new night­club fire blog. He comes to the same con­clu­sion: In news of this mag­ni­tude that attracts lots of new vis­i­tors, it makes sense to lift the Iron Curtain.

Looks like Buzz has been busy revamp­ing the Active­Words lineup. You can now get Active­Words (which I highly rec­om­mend — it super­charges your PC) in two fla­vors: the SE ver­sion at a new low price of $9.95, or Active­Words Plus, for $49.95. Check it out. I’ve been using it for almost a year now and it’s been a life-saver in help­ing me man­age the thou­sands of files on my PC.

Jason DeFillippo answes my query about blogrolling.com’s back­ground with a pointer to his resume. He’s a pro­gram­mer who lives in Chicago and works as chief tech­nolo­gi­est for Fac­tion Cre­ative in Bev­erly Hills. Here’s more about blogrolling (the out­fit, not the term, which I believe was coined by Doc Searls).

Marc invites us to post some­thing to The Matrix, one exper­i­men­tal out­growth of the Inter­net Topic Exchange. Check out, among other things, the Matrix Phone and Joi and Marc’s col­lo­quy about micro-content, the blo­gos­phere and get­ting beyond links to achieve total meshdom.

Jimmy Guter­man in Biz2: Has Online Media Bot­tomed Out? Maybe, but it’s going to take more than a jump in adver­tis­ing to build a strong recovery.

AdAge.com:

Con­sumer groups are gird­ing for a major fight today as the Fed­eral Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion holds its first and only for­mal hear­ing before draft­ing new rules that could have a far-reaching effect on media con­sol­i­da­tion and ownership. …

The Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Democ­racy yes­ter­day accused the FCC and the largest media con­glom­er­ates of try­ing to over­turn the “checks and bal­ances” that have long gov­erned Amer­i­can media.

Thanks to IWant­Media for the pointer.

NY Times: Be Your Own Wire­less Net­work … with a Net-enabled cell phone.