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Is Google Waffling on China?

Posted on February 15, 2010
It's been a month since Google announced its "new approach" to China and since then, little has been revealed about Google-China negotiations, assuming they are even being conducted, and Google continues to censor search results in China. At TED, Sergey...

Now, I Simply Must Buy a Kindle!

Posted on February 15, 2010
Amazon has made the Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011, and Economic Report of the President available as free wireless downloads in Amazon's Kindle Store. [Press Release] Hat tip to beSpacific. [JH]

The Most Geeky Valentine's Day Themed Blog Post (and It's From a SE Provider Not Named Google)

Posted on February 15, 2010
And the winner is Computing Valentine?s Day with Wolfram|Alpha. [JH]

Top 7 Police Myths "Everyone Believes"

Posted on February 14, 2010
Cezary Jan Strusiewicz of Cracked has compiled his 7 Bullshit Police Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies): Everyone Gets One Free Phone Call Criminals Must Be Read Their Miranda Rights or They Will Go Free Tracing a Call Takes a...

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Valentine?s Day Advice from Above the Law

Posted on February 14, 2010
I wish I had read ATL's post earlier. Buying a new simultaneous dual-band wireless router for my blog widow wasn't the hit I thought it would be. (I even used the coupons she gave me!) [JH]

Cyberspying Hits Chinese Government

Posted on February 13, 2010
"[W]hile much of the rest of the world frets about Chinese cyberspying abroad, China is increasingly alarmed about the threat that the Internet poses to its security and political stability," writes Sharon LaFraniere and Jonathan Ansfield. In their New York...

Round-up of Practitioner Blogs: Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury

Posted on February 13, 2010
Philadelphia Birth Injury Lawyer Blog http://www.philadelphiabirthinjurylawyerblog.com http://www.philadelphiabirthinjurylawyerblog.com/index.xml Covers birth injury opinions, news and reports in Pennsylvania. Published by Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, PC...

Friday Fun: "I know exactly what I am doing" vs. "Don't worry about it, I got it"

Posted on February 12, 2010
Nine phrases women use and 11 men use. How many have you heard or used? [JH]

The $65,000 Break-Even Point

Posted on February 12, 2010
"Schools with median starting salaries under $65,000, which generally land somewhere in the 70s in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, are not good values. They need to either lower their cost to students and/or improve job opportunities for...

ABA Releases 2010 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide

Posted on February 12, 2010
The ABA's 2010 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide: Critical Decisions Made Simple includes an overview of current legal tech products and services, advice on IT security, social media use and purchasing decisions, including case management applications, billing systems,...

Privacy Legal Issues in the Public Sector

Posted on February 12, 2010
Adjunct Law Prof Blog editor Mitchell Rubinstein's Privacy Legal Issues in the Public Sector first appeared as a chapter in a book on Workplace Privacy and was part of New York University 58th Annual Conference on Labor in 2005. He...

WestlawNext's Monkey About to Run Wild

Posted on February 12, 2010
The recently announced plans to rollout WestlawNext to the legal academy -- librarians and faculty this Spring with a "possible introduction as early as the Fall 2010 semester" to law students caused quite a buzz on private and public sector...

Google Wants to be Your ISP

Posted on February 12, 2010
Yes it does. No it doesn't. More on this below. Google has announced that it intends to build a 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connection reaching between 50,000 and 500,000 individuals. The announcement and associated FAQ describe the proposed network...

The Window of Opportunity for UI Development is Open: Who Will Create the Better Mouse-Trap for Using Secondary Legal Resources Online?

Posted on February 11, 2010
It's not like user interface development is bleeding edge but some of our very expensive legal vendors continue to dump yesterday's designs into our laps. The digital suckiness of secondary legal resources is to, ah, quote myself, "the major disappointment...

Do-It-Yourself Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing

Posted on February 11, 2010
Developed by Co-Action Publishing and Lund University Libraries Head Office with support from the National Library of Sweden and Nordbib, The Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing "provides practical information and tools to support the efforts of scholars and...

Cornell Law School's Gender-Based Violence Legal Resources Database

Posted on February 11, 2010
The Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School promotes the implementation of existing international human rights laws and national protections aimed at eradicating violence against women by providing free legal research support to judges around the...

Don't count out brick and mortar libraries just yet

Posted on February 11, 2010
Related to this story posted earlier on this blog, here's a post from Inside Higher Ed noting that several leading commentators think the brick and mortar library is here to stay: [Two new studies] [t]aken together, . . . point...

Time to Move Forward: On the First Anniversary of the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship

Posted on February 11, 2010
The Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship is one year old today. It calls for all law schools to stop publishing their journals in print format and to rely instead on electronic publication coupled with a commitment to...

Humane Society Ranks 50 States on Laws to Protect Animals

Posted on February 11, 2010
The Humane Society of the United States has released its first "Humane State Ranking," a comprehensive report rating all 50 states on a wide range of animal protection laws. The ranking was based on 65 different animal protection issues in...

Privacy and Data Security Risks in Cloud Computing

Posted on February 10, 2010
Legislatures and regulatory bodies are addressing the privacy and data security implications of cloud computing but have yet to promulgate actionable requriements according to the following highly recommended article. The article recently appeared in BNA's Computer Technology Law Report and...

New Book: Brick-and-Mortar Libraries and Their Staff Not Quite as Antiquated a Notion as Some Would Have Us Think

Posted on February 10, 2010
Marilyn Johnson's feel good book, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All (Harper, Feb. 2, 2010), "taps into the radical changes that libraries are going through" by describing how America?s public libraries have been reinventing...

Cornell LII's Legal Citation Finder Bookmarklet

Posted on February 10, 2010
Cornell's LII Citer is a new tool for helping researchers link to law online when the text is not already hyperlinked. Do note the citation types the tool currently supports. Hat tip to RIPS Law Librarian. [JH]

Last Call for LLB's "Do you support LAW.GOV?" Poll

Posted on February 10, 2010
We'll be closing down our utterly unscientific poll at the end of the week and report on results soon thereafter. If you haven't and want to take the poll, here's the link. [JH]

ABA Concerned With US News Ranking Law Firms

Posted on February 10, 2010
The National Law Journal web site features an article that details the American Bar Association's reaction to U.S. News and World Report's decision to rank law firms. The ABA doesn't like it. No sir, they don't like it at all....

From Yawning to Shuddering Over LexisNexis for Microsoft Office

Posted on February 10, 2010
In case you missed it because of all the Cobalt buzz, LexisNexis for Microsoft Office was also featured at Legal Tech New York. I wrote a yawn-worthy post and rejected an offer to preview it in-house -- just not my...

WestlawNext Rollout Plans for Law Schools Announced

Posted on February 10, 2010
From TR Legal: This month marks the official launch of WestlawNext. This new version of Westlaw has been in the making for several years and was developed in large part through research and collaboration with our customers. Many academic law...

Amazon to Consumers: $14.99 is too much to pay for licensed DRM-eBooks (or why Amazon is worried about price-point piracy)

Posted on February 09, 2010
Despite Amazon's attempt to sweeten its royality deal with publishers as long as publishers agreed that Kindle editions would be priced between $2.99 and $9.99, at least 20 percent below the lowest price of the physical edition of the book...

New Resource for Researching Elder Law

Posted on February 09, 2010
The Administration on Aging with the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging, Center for Elder Rights Advocacy, Center for Social Gerontology, National Consumer Law Center and National Senior Citizens Law Center have launched the National Legal Resource Center...

The Lady Gaga of the Legal Academy

Posted on February 09, 2010
Applications to Cornell Law School are up a whopping 53%, Why? The Law School's dean, Stewart Schwab, offers some reasons in the WSJ Law Blog post, The Cornell Law Mystery Continues (Or, Why CLS is Like Lady Gaga). [JH]

Tom Glocer on Fringe Benefits of Being Thomson Reuters' CEO

Posted on February 09, 2010
As previously mentioned in Removing Our Inherited Blinders: Thomson Reuters CEO on the Next Generation of Westlaw, reading TR CEO Tom Glocer's blog is much more interesting than reading TR's Legal Current blog. Here's another example why, Rangers 3, Devils...

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