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.

My niece, Christa Schiro, and her hus­band, Stef Bar­il­lari, are one of four new­ly­wed cou­ples por­trayed in a Diane Sawyer spe­cial on ABC Mon­day night at 10 called My Big, Wild, You’re Not-Gonna-Believe-This Wed­ding. Already spot­ted her on a cou­ple of pro­mos. Hey, I was there and danc­ing away at the recep­tion, so maybe I’ll be on prime time, too.