The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
I hope to see this soon. We’ve been thinking about the impact of shared outlines on legal education. Can you say virtual study groups? It is not hard to imagine law students finding the OPML Outliner very useful and adding a CALI sponsored community server into the mix is a good thing:)
GEEKS.OPML.ORG :
“The OPML Community Server, the blogging software, membership system, file system back-end and directory displayer. The goal here is to make it fairly painless to set up and administer.“
Build Your Own Render Farm
“But what about render farming? The idea of coaxing multiple machines to gang up on one graphics-processing job is old; but the feasibility of configuring such a system on a shoestring budget is rather new. With open-source solutions proliferating on the Web and businesses kicking decent PCs to the curb like so many red-headed stepchildren, money’s no longer an obstacle. Only one question remains, really: Are you a big enough geek to put it all together? “
Law students wanted to blog… Neat idea. Jurist has certainly evolved into a great source for legal news and this year’s team of student editors has done a great job.
JURIST – Paper Chase: EDITORS WANTED ~ Research, write legal news in real time…
“JURIST is looking for talented, public-service oriented law students from law schools in the US and abroad to join our team of real-time legal news editors this fall. “
Note: I had mistakenly implied that this was a ‘blog for money’ situation when, in fact, the student editors of JURIST are a group of dedicated volunteers. Prof. Hibbitts reminds me “[t]he fact that JURIST student staffers work so hard, so long (days, evenings, weekends), and so enthusiastically *without* pay is the real story here. It’s a testament to their dedication, their commitment to public service, and their sense of what they get out of the good work they’re doing!”.
freshmeat.net: Project details for LON-CAPA
“LON-CAPA (The LearningOnline Network with CAPA) is a learning content and course management system. It offers an underlying shared content pool from which instructors across departmental and institutional boundaries can assemble granular learning content for their courses. It has strong assessment capabilities, both formative (homework and in-class using wireless PDAs) and summative (online and bubblesheet exams), with a one-source multiple-target strategy for the content. It offers students portfolio space in which they can stage materials for submission to projects, and provides a number of tools for synchronous and asynchronous student-student and student-faculty communication. LON-CAPA scales well with number of students, as load-balancing is possible across the whole network of servers at participating institutions.“
Coming to campus: E-books with expiration dates | Tech News on ZDNet
“The new digital textbook program imposes strict guidelines on how the books can be used, including locking the downloaded books to a single computer and setting a five-month expiration date, after which the book can’t be read.“
They recommend Audacity for recording and Ourmedia.org for file storage. Sounds like they could really use Classcaster: record over the phone and post directly to the blog.
LibriVox
“LibriVox is an open source audio-literary attempt to harness the power of the many to record and disseminate, in podcast form, books from the public domain. It works like this: a book is chosen, then *you*, the volunteers, read and record one or more chapters.“
Slashdot | BitTorrent for Content Providers
“ibiblio.org has entered the fray, launching an enhanced BitTorrent site. Among the torrent offerings (all legal) are Linux kernels, distros, Project Gutenberg texts, and the ibiblio Speaker Series, which includes videos of talks by Larry Lessig, Robin Miller, and Dan Gillmor. ibiblio developed and open sourced the Osprey and Permaseed software to make BitTorrent seeding reliable, persistent, and suitable for large-scale content providers. Yes, you can find these torrents later.“
This article by Mark Sigal disucsses 2 compelling applications that have RSS at their heart and demonstrate how RSS could/should be at the center of the new web.
Envisioning RSS as a Web 2.0 platform
“RSS began its life as a really simple way for content providers to syndicate their content and for content consumers to subscribe to their favorite providers. When the blogosphere emerged, RSS really took off. Now, just as its “simple” technology cousin, HTML, provided the underpinnings of the Web 1.0 technology platform, RSS is emerging as a platform for delivering the broadband and mobile ready applications of a Web 2.0 enabled world.”
BetaNews | Microsoft Patches Six Vulnerabilities
“Microsoft released six security patches Tuesday as part of its monthly initiative to fix vulnerabilities within the Windows operating system. Three of the vulnerabilities have been marked “critical,” one “important,” and two as “moderate” in severity.“
Novell to Resell MySQL
“MySQL has been picked up by Novell, its second huge reseller deal in so many days, the companies announced on Tuesday at LinuxWorld in San Francisco.The companies are calling this the only accord of its kind between a Linux vendor and MySQL AB, purveyor of the popular open-source database MySQL. In the reseller and joint-support agreement, Novell Inc. will offer subscriptions to the MySQL Network, a subscription offering that includes MySQL software; updates and upgrades; alerts and advisors; MySQL’s online knowledgebase; and full, production-level technical support.”