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We’ve had a Fan Page on Facebook for quite awhile. If you haven’t signed up for it yet, c’mon over and click on the button that says you “Like” our firm.

But what’s new is the functionality on LinkedIn that allows you to learn about the goings on at various companies. To Follow our firm on LinkedIn, click here.

We talk about RealSpace in homage to Paul Levinson’s book RealSpace: The Fate of Physical Presence in the Digital Age, On and Off Planet. According to Paul, Realspace “is about the need for full, face-to-face interaction with people and the world around us in the age of the Internet. It is about life before and beyond cyberspace.”

Reader of earlier issues of Wired Magazine, noticed that its masthead listed a “patron saint” named Marshall McLuhan. He spoke of the “global village,” and coined the aphorism “the medium is the message.” Paul Levinson, once a student of McLuhan’s, has updated McLuhan’s writings, all pre-Internet, to deal with today’s new media. I encourage you to read Levinson’s Digital McLuhan.

Richard Whitfield and James Didio interview patent attorney Gerry Elman on Money Matters TV. The interview runs from time 9:17 to 28:52. You can scroll past the first 9 minutes of other material to Gerry’s interview on patents and related intellectual property issues. This was Gerry’s second interview on that show. You can also watch the first interview, archived in May 2006.