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World Map of Social Networks

Posted on January 03, 2010
"Facebook continues its colonization of the world with more than 350 millions users. Since June Facebook conquered new territories from its competitors (in 100 out of 127 countries analyzed it is market leader)," writes Vincenzo Cosenza. His visualization graphic, World...

Facebook and Twitter help spread viruses.

Posted on January 03, 2010
The New York Times reported that viruses spread via Facebook and Twitter often leave users feeling embarrassed. To make matters worse, these web based social media viruses are spread far more easily than their email counterparts which can be stopped....

Start 2010 Off with a New Web Browser

Posted on January 02, 2010
Tired of dealing with Internet Explorer. Looking for an alternative to Firefox. So how do you choose the browser that is right for you? Pandia Search Engine News has an excellent article reviewing what's currently out on the market (Chrome,...

A Watershed Moment in Computing: Will 2010 Be the Year of the Touchscreen Web Tablet?

Posted on January 02, 2010
Steven Matthews offers his web law predictions for 2010 on Slaw. One that really caught my attention was his comment about 2010 being to be the year of the touchscreen web tablet. "I?m actually putting off buying a new laptop...

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French Internet Piracy Law

Posted on January 02, 2010
This month, France will be putting its new, controversial internet piracy law into place. The law is designed to cut down on illegal downloads by monitoring internet usage of residents in France, issuing first a warning to potential abusers and...

LLB Turns Five Years Old: Another Day, Another Post

Posted on January 01, 2010
Five years, that's got to be something like 35 years in blog-years -- never thought I would be here today writing this post. Way Back When. I launched LLB on January 1, 2005 just to add a law librarian blog...

Happy New Year to All

Posted on December 31, 2009
Remember, don't drink and drive practice law librarianship. [JH]

Best Notable Quotables of 2009 from the Not-Quite-Right's Media Research Center

Posted on December 31, 2009
"The mission of the Media Research Center, 'America's Media Watchdog,' is to bring balance to the news media. Leaders of America's conservative movement have long believed that within the national news media a strident liberal bias existed that influenced the...

Top 10 Crackdowns 2009, Chinese Style

Posted on December 31, 2009
China Daily has just published its year-end list of Top 10 Crackdowns. Yes, that's right. Crackdowns. Spoiler alert, spoiler alert! A crackdown on organized crime in Chongqing tops the list. Some other listed crackdowns deal with porn, human trafficking, and...

Friday Fun on Wednesday: The Muppets Perform Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

Posted on December 30, 2009
Setting the mood for New Year's Eve festivities... Hat tip to Mark Giangrande for finding this gem! [JH]

The 10 Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade

Posted on December 30, 2009
According to the Webby Awards, they are: Craigslist expands outside San Francisco (2000) Google AdWords launches (2000) Wikipedia launches (2001) Napster Shut Down (2001) Google IPO (2004) Online video revolution (2006) Facebook opens to non-college students and Twitter takes off...

Above the Law's Top Five Motions of the Year

Posted on December 30, 2009
Topping ATL's list is Best Motion to Continue. Ever. -- "In Alabama, Lady Justice may wear a cheerleader?s uniform. Crimson Tide-loving defense attorneys asked for a time delay on their trial due to a BCS Championship Game. The judge granted...

What Microsoft Did Right and Wrong in 2009

Posted on December 30, 2009
On Betanews, Joe Wilcox offers his opinion on what Microsoft did right (e.g., flawlessly launched Windows 7) and wrong (e.g. offered no direct Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrade) in 2009. [JH]

Happy 100th Anniversary 1909 Catalogue

Posted on December 30, 2009
The Harvard Law School Library had not published a catalog in book format since 1846 when Assistant Librarian Charles F. D. Belden took up the task to produce a new printed edition in 1902. His efforts produced the now famous...

Learning technologies that became obsolete this decade past

Posted on December 30, 2009
This list from Inside Higher Ed not only makes me feel old, but also out of touch (since when did DVD players and photocopiers become obsolete?). The IHE list was inspired by Silicon Alley Insider's list of 21 things that...

News Industry Media Content Trends in the Social Media Era

Posted on December 29, 2009
According to Mashable's Vadim Lavrusik, "news in 2010 will blur the lines between audience and creator more than ever in an era of social media." Lavrusik identifies 10 trends in content distribution and presentation that we will likely see more...

Blogging as Thinking Out Loud Sometimes

Posted on December 29, 2009
Way, way back in 2006, I attended the "Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship" conference at Harvard Law School. Law profs had discovered blogging beyond the instant pundit genre but there were still plenty of raised eyebrows in the...

Violent Crime Continues to Decline According to FBI Report

Posted on December 29, 2009
In its Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, the FBI reports that violent crimes declined 4.4 percent for the first half of 2009, following a 1.9 percent decline in 2008 and a 0.7 percent decline in 2007. All four of the...

Will 2010 be the beginning of the end of free web news content?

Posted on December 29, 2009
The New York Times ran an article today called "Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites" about the possibility that more and more of the free news outlets we take for granted, including the NYT, may begin charging for content...

Is Wi-Fi Becoming Standard Equipment in Automobiles?

Posted on December 29, 2009
CNN is reporting that select models of Ford automobiles will come equipped with USB mobile broadband modems. The automobiles will be mobile Wi-Fi hotspots with secure connections that can support several devices simultaneously. What an exciting development with many benefits...

Death of Tethered eBooks: Replacing Bezos' "Dead Technology," Amazon's Licensing Agreement for Kindle, With the Epub Format

Posted on December 29, 2009
Responding to Jeff Bezos' self-serving prediction that print is a dead technology [reported at Amazon's Jeff Bezos: eBooks Will Replace Physical Books (Kindled Editions and eReaders, Too?)] Edward Tenner writes "the rhetoric of an inevitable future can be a great...

Google's search engine dominance threatens web neutrality

Posted on December 29, 2009
Here's an interesting Op-Ed from the New York Times suggesting that Google has achieved such dominance as a search engine that for most it has become the de facto gateway to the web. The implications are so serious that the...

10 Best iPhone Apps for Dog Lovers

Posted on December 28, 2009
Want to locate an off-the-leash dog park in your zip code? Or use a social networking site for dog owners to set up doggy play dates? Check out the 10 Best iPhone Apps for Dog Lovers. [BA]

Beware of Discrepancies Between Google SLOJ Opinion Texts and Texts from Other Sources

Posted on December 28, 2009
On Legal Writing Prof Blog, Nova's Jim Levy reports on how a Google SLOJ user found a discrepancy when he compared the Google-provided opinion text with the official text of the opinion he was using in his brief -- the...

Pew Survey Results: Good Riddance to the 2000s but Technology and Communications Advances Viewed Favorably

Posted on December 28, 2009
Results from The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey of the 2000s reveal that more people have a generally negative (50%) rather than a generally positive (27%) impression of the past 10 years. Current Decade Rates...

Government Agencies Withholding Information on Social-Networking Surveillance Sued

Posted on December 28, 2009
When a half-dozen federal agencies refused to disclose their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance in response to FOIA requests, the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the UC, Berkeley, School of Law...

UC-Irvine's Second Class of Law Students Will Pay Half Tuition

Posted on December 28, 2009
According to a recent article in the National Law Journal, the University of California, Irvine School of Law will provide "scholarships to cover at least 50% of annual tuition for students arriving in August 2010." The announcement comes just five...

Last Minute Reminder: Applications for TRIPLL Conference Due by Dec. 31

Posted on December 28, 2009
The Teaching Research in Private Law Libraries (TRIPLL) Conference application is available through December 31. The TRIPLL Conference, sponsored by the LexisNexis Librarian Relations Group, will be held April 23 - 25, 2010 in Dallas, TX. The mission of the...

Amazon's Jeff Bezos: eBooks Will Replace Physical Books (Kindled Editions and eReaders, Too?)

Posted on December 28, 2009
Newsweek's Daniel Lyons interviewed Amazon's Jeff Bezos about the Kindle, how the Apple tablet might affect it, and the next phase of digital distribution. Here's a snip from The Customer Is Always Right: Lyons: Do you think that the ink-on-paper...

This Year?s Top 10 Celebrity Legal Scandals

Posted on December 27, 2009
According to Popsquire, "where pop culture and law collide." Here's a sample: Coming in at First Place: "Michael Jackson died, causing a whirlwind of pop culture emotions and legal disputes surrounding his estate. And, yes, we are still waiting on...

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