The SF Chron looks at www.8goodpeople.com, a jobless journalists' website that includes a Pulitzer Prize winner and a former NY Times staffer.

In Monday's Seattle Times, Glenn Fleishman writes about how a local coffee shop exemplifies a growing trend to offer free wireless (and sometimes wired) access to establish a regular relationship with customers who stay longer, prefer the venue, and spend more.

Wish I knew how Glenn did those tiny urls. Pretty cool.

OK, here's the ruling: Aimster, the online service being sued by major record labels for allowing its users to copy songs for free, must remain shut down until it can prove its users do more than illegally trade copyrighted material, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday.

Wired News: In a potentially significant victory for bloggers, an appeals court decides that small-time online publishers can't be held responsible for libel if they just republish information (a la Drudge). The ruling is a victory for free speech advocates and bloggers.

Two intellectual property rulings came down today:

The California Supreme Court today ruled that former Intel employee Ken Hamidi did not trespass on Intel's computers when he sent email messages to Intel employees at work.

Judge Richard Posner issued a ruling this morning that was a setback for Aimster in Record Industry v Deep, John. I haven't seen any wire stories on it yet, just saw the document on Fred von Lohmann's desk.

Meantime, the Electronic Frontier Foundation today launched a Let the Music Play campaign urging the more than 60 million U.S. citizens who use file-sharing software to demand changes in copyright law to get artists paid and make file-sharing legal.

So I'm back from the Internet Law conference at Stanford Law School already. It's a worthy lineup and an endlessly fascinating subject being addressed over the course of five days. I had originally planned on spending two full days in Palo Alto, but personal business and a looming deadline on my book project both intervened. I finally met the lovely and personable Donna Wentworth (Copyfight) in person. Chatted with Katie Dean of Wired News. Interviewed Jonathan Zittrain of the Berkman Center. Then popped up to San Francisco for a lunch interview with the EFF's Fred von Lohmann, who participates on an I-Day panel Wednesday.

When I turned on my Apple Powerbook this morning I expected to immediately access a wireless connection at the conference. Didn't happen, and the other bloggers there had to have someone set up their connection. Too bad.

This week (and especially Wednesday) I'll be checking in with the bloggers in the audience: Donna, Frank Field (whom I wish I spotted), teen whiz kid Aaron Swartz and multimedia auteur Lisa Rein. Frank, Donna and Aaron are already well into the thick of things.

AlterNet: 10 lies we were told about Iraq.

I'll be at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Internet Law program at Stanford on Monday and Wednesday this week, it appears. Not sure if they'll have wireless access, but I suspect so. I hope to finally meet Donna Wentworth of Copyfight blog fame, among others.

Lost Remote: Truth as a Revolutionary Act. Why Journalists Should Blog With Brutal Honesty, an essay by Steve Safran, exec producer at NECN: New England Cable News in Boston.

Thanks to Ryan of Dead Parrot Society for the pointer.