About
I’m Mark Blacknell. By day (and often night), I help media companies and communications infrastructure providers navigate the legal and business challenges posed by agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission, Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, and other government bodies. In other words, I’m a communications attorney.
Not that it would be entirely wise to link all of them from here, but I’ve been posting my opinions to the Internet since 1993. I suspect many of my friends and colleagues who spent so much time posting to newsgroups or online journals in the 1990s share my sense of bemusement at the breathless media coverage of “blogs.” While I don’t really consider this a blog, I’ve decided that it would be useful/harmless enough to use Blacknell.net to offer a few unsolicitied opinions and engage in the time-honored practice of endorsement-by-link.
I don’t so much talk about the the law, though, as I do enough of that elsewhere. Obviously, I can’t keep myself from going on about politics, but if you’re keen to do that, bring up the subject of cycling or communications infrastructure/content distribution. I also do a fair bit of travel. Occasionally I actually get around to writing about it.
