My very first weblog entry was James Gleick‘s collection of on-line essays. You won’t find the original post here, though, as Kestrel’s Nest didn’t exist then. I fed it to Peter Merholz for posting on peterme. Anyway, I bring it up again because James has now published an excellent essay on the collapse of our patent system. Like me, he faults the system much more than he does Amazon, though he did throw a few zingers Bezos’ way.