Jason Eiseman has put together a video of Laurie Daley talking about Portland, Oregon host of the upcoming AALL conference. Great idea! [May 10/08 - link corrected - Connie]
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connie
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Barbara Gordon
The ICLR seventh annual lecture looks pretty good this year: How the common law gets made: Hedley Byrne and other cautionary tales (link goes to pdf)
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lo-fi
I love this! From Boing Boing - Manchester band use CCTV and FOI Data Protection Act to make their music video.
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neilstewart
Slaw mark the passing of Roy Mersky, the doyen of US law librarians. The tributes paid to him and the account of his career by the University of Texas make for astonishing reading.
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Steve
Insightful post from Connie on her experience with twitter.
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Barbara Gordon
The ban on ‘extreme’ internet porn has been made law.
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neilstewart
An interesting tip from Boing Boing- apparently the Internet Archive can be considered a library for the purposes of protecting its contributors from the Patriot Act. This has allowed the EFF to overturn a gagging order imposed by the FBI.
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connie
I am looking for examples on how everyone is “rocking the web”. Thanks!
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lorelibrarian
Please take this survey on the use of RSS feeds and readers in law-firms.
Thanks!
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lo-fi
BT launches Blackberry-style device with broadband - with Phorm as standard?
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iOverlord
has anyone pluged insitelaw yet? Charon QC’s latest idea. “daily updates of legal news, a five minute daily (weekdays) news podcast, law reports, law round ups and developing editorial. The newswire is deliberately blog centric - to try and promote a wider circulation of the excellent content to be found on UK and overseas blogs”.
There is also a blog, and you can sign up for a weekly email
All looks good. Congrats to Mike.
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connie
Trial run of a new law library phone-in show today on BlogTalkRadio.com with guest U.S. legal publishing industry watchdog Ken Svengalis - 4 pm EST (um, I think 9 pm in the UK) if you can make it. Fire up skype and call in!
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iOverlord
Outlaw.com has an excellent piece on Phorm http://www.out-law.com/page-9090
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neilstewart
So, it’s not looking to good for Ken is it? The Londoners amongst us might have Boris as Mayor in about 8hrs time. Thoughts anyone?
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jennielaw
Apparently, the laws of Oregon are copyrighted, and can’t be published…
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Barbara Gordon
Facebook security questioned again. “Personal details of Facebook users could potentially be stolen, the BBC technology programme Click has found.”
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neilstewart
John Harris writes in the Guardian on his experience of making data protection subject access requests to various companies and agencies, and the varied responses he received.
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iOverlord
European Commission proposals to amend the Regulation on access to EU documents - and not for the better according to statewatch
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Steve
NYTimes covers JD Supra. See: Lawyers Open Their File Cabinets for a Web Resource
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iOverlord
CILIP Information & Advice Team have launched a blog. “It is an informal way to offer members the chance to keep up-to-date with LIS news and information that does not fit into our ‘Weekly Information World’ and that we think you need to know now! Apart from breaking news, we will be including comments on new resources we see, such as e-journal articles, blogs, books, events etc…” Well, better late then never …
