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LOC Acquires the Twitter Archive

Posted on April 14, 2010
The Library of Congress has announced that it has acquired the entire Twitter archive. Then again, they have Jacqueline Susann and Harold Robbins novels in the collection, so who is to question Twitter. That's something like 50 million tweets per...

Is the iPad Setting the Stage for the Wider Adoption of the Touch-Screen Interface?

Posted on April 13, 2010
TR CEO Tom Glocer does not discuss the iPad in the context of legal publishing but does have this to say about his new iPad generally in his recent iPad and Beyond post: What the iPad represents for me is...

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Staff Reports

Posted on April 13, 2010
Hat tip to beSpacific for tracking down the following preliminary staff reports from the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission: The Community Reinvestment Act and the Mortgage Crisis The Mortgage Crisis Government Sponsored Enterprises and the Financial Crisis The Role of the...

The Constitutional Issues of Cloud Computing

Posted on April 13, 2010
There is an interesting read on The Red Tape Chronicles blog about groups who are trying to lobby changes to the Electronic Privacy Communications Act of 1986 so that the law is "technologically neutral," meaning that search and seizure requirement...

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Twitter Launches "Promoted Tweets" to Generate Ad Revenue

Posted on April 13, 2010
Twitter has answered the question about how the Company is going to earn money. Twitter is selling keywords to advertisers to produce "promoted tweets" (read ads). Promoted tweets will launch today to about 2 percent to 10 percent of Twitter...

2011 US News Rankings Allegedly Leaked

Posted on April 13, 2010
Abovethelaw.com is reporting a leak in the 2011 US News law school rankings. The leaked rankings have not been confirmed by US News yet, so you need to take them with a grain of salt. According to the post, the...

GAO Report Says Economic Effects Piracy of Goods and Files Can't Be Measured

Posted on April 13, 2010
The Government Accountability Office issued a report yesterday that will likely shock the content industry. The report is called Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods (GAO-10-423). The shock comes from two points in...

Celebrate NLW 2010 With Free Trials

Posted on April 12, 2010
Happy National Library Week everyone! Despite our federal government failing to pass House Resolution 1222, Supporting the Goals and Ideals of National Library Week (see Govtrack.us for details and updates), some generous publishers have opened their firewalls and are providing...

Short WestlawNext Videos from the West eLearning Center

Posted on April 12, 2010
Log into the West eLearning Center and click on the "WestlawNext - NEW" link under the Browse Subjects heading in the left sidebar, then click on each of following tab for brief WLN videos. Current offerings include the following: Overview...

Round-Up of Practitioner Blogs

Posted on April 11, 2010
Modesto Bankruptcy Lawyer Blog http://www.modestobankruptcylawyerblog.com http://www.modestobankruptcylawyerblog.com/index.xml Reports on bankruptcy news, opinions and matters in California. Published by the Law Office of Ben Roberts. Phoenix Car Accident Attorney Blog http://www...

NLJ's The Decade's 40 Most Influential Lawyers

Posted on April 10, 2010
For NLJ's annual Most Influential Lawyers special report, the editors selected "40 attorneys in a dozen key legal areas whose work between Jan. 1, 2000, and Dec. 31, 2009, was so consequential that it helped to push the profession, an...

Lexis Rewards Your Good Ideas

Posted on April 09, 2010
Just in time for Friday! Lexis is offering librarians 1,000 reward points for the submission of good ideas to share on their Share Your Ideas web page. As you know, reward points can be traded in for tangible goods; however,...

Friday Fun: Law School Dreams When JD Meant "Ju$t Dollars"

Posted on April 09, 2010
By way of following up on LLB's last two Friday Fun videos -- yes we beat the horse to death and beyond -- comes another Hitler-Law School parody. And, perhaps the best: Hitler finally declares war on Hitler Parodies while...

GPO Launches Government Book Talk Blog

Posted on April 09, 2010
Launched on March 30th, the GPO's Government Book Talk blog's objective is "to raise the profile of some of the best publications from the Federal Government, past and present." The blog will review new and popular publications and provide information...

Mr. Justice Stevens Announces His Retirement from the Supreme Court

Posted on April 09, 2010
Justice John Paul Stevens has made official that he is retiring at the end of the current Supreme Court term. This hardly comes as a surprise given his public statements that he was thinking of retirement, and that he hired...

Your WestlawNext License Can Be Just Like Your Westlaw License. Part II: Downplaying the Ability to Block Out-of-Plan Resources for a Cross-Database Search Engine in WLN Marketing

Posted on April 08, 2010
During this WestlawNext roll-out, the track record for obtaining clear, precise and comprehensive information from TR Legal Marketing has left something to be desired. To quote Greg Lambert in his open letter to Lexis about learning from WestlawNext mistakes when...

Digital Economy Bill Passes Parliament, Awaits Royal Assent to Become Law

Posted on April 08, 2010
Britain's Digital Economy Bill passed Parliament in what is characterized as a "wash-up" session. That is the time between the call for a general election and the dissolution of Parliament. The majority and minority gets together and decides what unfinished...

Check Out HeinOnline's New Beta Law Journal Library Collection Home Page

Posted on April 07, 2010
Finding from its development survey that the majority of users are searching the Law Journal Library Collection or they are accessing articles and documents using a citation, HeinOnline has created a Beta home page for the Law Journal Library. From...

Leiter's Top 25 Law Faculties in Scholarly Impact by Citation Count, 2005-2009

Posted on April 07, 2010
Chicago law prof Brian Leiter's latest analysis aims to identify the 25 law faculties with the most ?scholarly impact? as measured by citations during roughly the past five years. The methodology is similar to Leiter's past citation studies, listed here,...

Barbara Bintliff to Become Next Director at the University of Texas Tarlton Law Library

Posted on April 07, 2010
From Acting Director Terry Martin's email to the Tarlton family of librarians: It has been my privilege and pleasure to serve as director of the Tarlton Law Library for the past two academic years. But I am nonetheless relieved and...

Teacher who was suspended for facetiously threatening on Facebook to kill students gets her job back

Posted on April 07, 2010
We'd previously reported on the story of a sociology prof who posted a couple of tongue-in-check messages on Facebook expressing that she'd ?had a good day today, DIDN?T want to kill even one student :-). Now Friday was a different...

Your WestlawNext License Can Be Just Like Your Westlaw License. Part 1: You Can Block Out-of-Plan Resources for WestlawNext

Posted on April 06, 2010
In a March 16th post, I asked what I thought was a relatively simple and direct question: will there be pure fixed rate contracts for WestlawNext? Being a cross-database search engine, it was prompted in part by: a CRIV interview...

Maryland Legislature Backs Down on Threat to Clinical Funding

Posted on April 06, 2010
Various news outlets are reporting (here and here, for example) on the controversial budget proposal in Maryland that would require the state funded University of Maryland environmental clinic to turn over client and other information or forgo $250,000 in state...

FCC Loses Comcast Appeal on Net Regulation

Posted on April 06, 2010
In what seems a surprise to no one, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against the FCC in its attempt to regulate Internet providers. The case arose when the Commission asserted authority over Comcast for...

Let's Speed Up Cash Flow for Print: West's New Billing System Moving from Monthly to Weekly Invoicing

Posted on April 05, 2010
In West pokes itself in the eye again, Betsy McKenzie reports that West is apparently moving from monthly to weekly billing unless the library has an LMA contract. "To make matters worse," Betsy writes "the invoices will be mailed separately...

Opening: Law Library Directory, Univ. of Kentucky Law

Posted on April 05, 2010
The University of Kentucky College of Law invites applications for the position of Director of its Library. The Law Library has a strong commitment to service and is one of the state?s largest law libraries with a collection of 490,000...

Round-Up of Personal Injury Practitioner Blogs

Posted on April 04, 2010
Alabama Injury Attorneys Blog http://www.alabamainjuryattorneysblog.com http://www.alabamainjuryattorneysblog.com/index.xml Discusses injury law cases, reports and news in Alabama. Published by Farris, Riley & Pitt, LLP. San Diego Personal Injury Lawyers Blog http://www...

The Kindlistas' Effect on Amazon's Book Rating System

Posted on April 03, 2010
"Kindlistas are vehement Kindle owners," writes Tom Peters on ALA TechSource blog. Apparently if no Kindle edition is available, or the Kindle edition of a book is too high-priced, Kindlistas will give the print edition low marks to pull down...

Best April Fool's Day Post in the Law Librarian Blogosphere

Posted on April 02, 2010
After an extensive survey of the entire law librarian blogosphere, LLB is delighted to announce the winner of its first annual Best April Fool's Day Blog Post. May I have the envelope please ... And the winner is Greg Lambert's...

Friday Fun: Reaction to News About the Forthcoming New Bluebook Edition

Posted on April 02, 2010
By way of following up on last week's admittedly in poor taste Friday Fun video feature of Hitler as a law prof, here another one! Poor taste be damn. Hat tip to Mark Wojcik, Legal Writing Prof Blog. [JH]

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