I got an email the other day that confirmed my acceptance into the upcoming 3 Day Startup weekend in New York.

On April 20th, I will pack into a room with 39 other highly motivated and creative people from all different backgrounds, and we will work hard and fast to create a viable technology company.  We will form teams, brainstorm ideas, build a prototype, and launch a product or service - all within 48 hours.

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Next week I’m speaking at New York Law School as part of a panel on Web TV series. This will be my first chance to share what I’m working on in front of a live audience, and interact with people who are interested in what I’m doing.

It’ll be particularly interesting to be speaking at a law school in front of a crowd of law students.  On one hand, I hardly feel qualified to give advice to fellow law students seeking creative inspiration and career opportunities.  I’m seeking the same thing!

On the other hand, I realize that my Web TV series, however small, is an experience that most law students don’t have.  So I will be glad to share insights from my experience thus far and see if I can offer any helpful advice.

I’m actually most excited about listening to Julia and Matt.  As they are far more accomplished in the Web TV space then I am, I’m going to use this as an opportunity to listen to and learn from my fellow panelists.

I’m really looking forward to the opportunity.

I really want to run a marathon.  It’s been a goal of mine for a long time.  So why talk about it?  Isn’t that wasting time?  Just go do it - run the marathon.  Simple.  Right?

Maybe not.

I really want to run a marathon.  Or so I tell myself.  I think what I really want is to say that I *have run* a marathon.  I want to cross it off the list.  But do I want to plan for it?  Train for it?  And do I actually want to run 26.2 grueling miles?  That’s a murkier question.

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When we think of things “going viral,” it’s usually a funny video or something about Angelina Jolie’s right leg.  But over the past few days, a long legal analysis of Pinterest’s copyright problems has been circulating around the web.  The title is Why I Tearfully Deleted All My Pinterest Inspiration Boards.  And today, a few of the larger tech publications picked up on it.

The article was written by a Pinterest-using lawyer and photographer from Atlanta.  And with all of the re-pinning of pictures taken by popular photographers, she couldn’t help but wonder - isn’t this a huge copyright problem? 

So she did some research.

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