Give me my Google Click-Throughs
Did you see that Michael Geoghegan and Gigavox Media have put out a WordPress plugin that helps streamline the process of obtaining release agreements from podcast guests? The plugin automates the creation of a click-through agreement. Here's an example; no legalese included. (In other words, they're giving folks the rope; hanging optional.)
It seems to me something like this would be a great Google Apps addition. People frequently proceed on handshake understandings (or less), even when something important is on the line, because the process of entering into a sufficiently definite and enforceable agreement is too cumbersome and slow to be tolerated in today's world. (See, or hear rather, Rob Welch's interview with Colette Vogele.) But: what if there were a widely available, cheap/free tool that helped users create and manage click-through agreements? And what if all the usual associated paperwork and recordkeeping worked instead like Google Docs and Spreadsheets? We'd be a leap closer to the sort of network-leveraging legal infrastructure that hums along beneath the action in Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe.