and so it begins ...

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

http://public.resource.org/uscourts.gov/index.html

i'm tarring them up now, but that and moving them in place will happen  
over the weekend.  Monday, there will be one more piece added, which  
will be a pointer into the pacer part of bulk and then it is all up  
and running.

i sent out 6 fedex today with the full redacted/unredacted dvd and  
full quality printouts of the letter and appendix.  one to Rosenthal,  
to the director of the administrative office of the courts, to the  
deputy directory who handles the rules committee, the NY Times,  
Hoofnagle at Berkeley (a leading privacy researcher), and the deputy  
us attorney who handles this stuff.  I then did email versions to eff  
and a few other important privacy groups.

I'm going up to see Becky and Nate this weekend (need to drop a Darth  
Vadar costume off for the holiday).  I'll have email and will be back  
at my desk and able to start dealing with this Sunday night.  PR is  
going to be kind of subtle .. I'll probably give boingboing a heads up  
and maybe o'reilly.  As you can see from the memo, I kind of dealt  
with the issue already and our best outcome is they don't say anything  
at all and we move on to the next phase.  But, I can tell you, there  
are going to be a couple folks there that will need to be scraped off  
the ceiling, so fingers crossed.

Carl