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Complete is a simple module to instruct your users to perform certain actions in your website. It keeps track of the completeness of these actions. Complete harvests the power of rules to configure the kind of actions a user has to perform, and integrates with views for displaying the actions.
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Using the HTML 5 video tag.
links for 2009-06-05
Thomson Reuters’ Lawsuit Against Zotero Dismissed
“The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Thomson Reuters’s lawsuit against George Mason University has been dismissed. Last fall the news organization had sued GMU’s Center for History and New Media over supposed violations of the EndNote licensing agreement by the Zotero project, hosted at the university. Zotero, a Firefox plug-in designed to help scholars store and organize their online research, has seen millions of downloads. Zotero project co-director Sean Takats’s announcement is pretty heartwarming. No comment as yet from Thomson Reuters.”
via Slashdot News Story | Zotero Lawsuit Dismissed.
TR had alleged that the Zotero team at GMU reverse engineered EndNote in violation of the EULA.
Law School Website Design Study 2009
The starting list of schools for this report was taken from data provided by the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. This is their “2008 Official Guide to ABA-approved Law Schools”. Selective data is reproduced to present demographic data about schools to provide context for the content displayed. Factors such as student body size, program type, number of faculty, library collection or tuition could directly or indirectly influence website content needs. However, no inference is made regarding the relationship of this data to the homepage content.
In addition to capturing information about schools in the ABA spreadsheet, the report includes several non-ABA schools and online legal education organizations. For good measure, the homepages for Oxford and Cambridge are also included.
via Law School Website Design Study 2009.
Not something you see everyday. Roger Skalbeck of Georgetown Law Library put this report together and will present it at the CALI’s 2009 Conference for law School Computing. Something like this is a good thing for law schools, giving folks something to compare their site to.
Arkansas Becomes First State to Make Official Reports Electronic
“[The Arkansas Supreme Court] and the Court of Appeals will soon step into the future: effective July 1, 2009 the electronic version of appellate decisions posted on the Arkansas Judiciary website [link] will the official reports of those decisions. Arkansas will be the first state in the nation to publish and distribute the official report of its appellate decisions electronically.” In re: Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Rule 5-2 (May 28, 2009).
Publication of the Arkansas Reports and Arkansas Appellate Reports will end with volume 375 Ark./104 Ark. App. Hat tip to Coleen Barger (UALR Bowen School of Law), Legal Writing Prof Blog.
A most welcome development. While the linked announcement is a PDF of a scanned fax (yuk!), the opinions currently on the site are nice clean text-based PDF files and site boasts a page of RSS feeds that let you keep track of what is going on. Let’s hope this is fast moving trend.
$1 Summer Movies at GTC Cherokee Cinemas
The lineup varies from theatre to theatre (check the flyer at the location for details), but it should include the following movies:
* Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
* Alvin & the Chipmunks
* Bee Movie
* Coraline
* Doogal
* Horton Hears a Who
* Hotel for Dogs
* Igor
* Kung Fu Panda
* Madagascar Escape 2 Africa
* Nim’s Island
* Open Season
* Paul Blart: Mall Cop
* The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie
* The Spiderwick Chronicles
* The Tale of Despereaux
Click here to find a Georgia Theatre Company theatre near you.
via $1 Movies During 2009 Summer Kid Show Series at Georgia Theatre Company : Atlanta on the Cheap.
More cheap summer movies, even closer to home.
NASCAR Goes for “Shootout Style” Restarts
NASCAR on Thursday announced a change to its race format with the addition of “Double-File Restarts — Shootout Style” throughout each race. Beginning with this weekend at Pocono Raceway, the first- and second-place drivers will line up side-by-side as the green flag flies for each restart.
“We’ve heard the fans loud and clear: ‘double-file restarts — shootout style’ are coming to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series,” said NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France. “This addition to the race format is good for competition and good for the fans.”
via NASCAR.COM – NASCAR adopts double-file restarts in Cup Series races – Jun 4, 2009.
This gets the the slower lapped traffic out of the way on restarts so that the leaders can race it out without getting tied up in cars that aren’t racing for the lead. I should make racing a lot more exciting.
Moblin 2.0 Reviewed: Another Linux Distro for Netbooks
The Moblin project started out in life as an operating system targeted at the Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform but has morphed into a prime candidate for the Netbook world. With the release of the Moblin v2 beta in late May came the push specifically targeted at Netbooks designed around the Intel Atom processor family. A transition of project stewardship from Intel to the Linux Foundation also took place between the releases of Moblin v1 and v2.
Atlanta Braves Drop Glavine
Channel 2 Action News sports anchor Zach Klein has learned that the Atlanta Braves have released veteran left-hander Tom Glavine.
In a stunning move, the Atlanta Braves released the 305-game winner on Wednesday, just when it seemed he was ready to return to the big leagues.
The 43-year-old Glavine, who was coming back from shoulder and elbow surgery, threw six scoreless innings for Class-A Rome on Tuesday night and proclaimed himself ready to pitch in the majors again.
via Tom Glavine Released From Atlanta Braves – Sports News Story – WSB Atlanta.
Bit of a shocker here. Yes, I do follow sports a bit. Glavine, certainly a Hall of Fame caliber pitcher, seemed poised to make another comeback. There is speculation that there are financial motives in the move, by cutting Glavine now the Braves save millions of dollars.
Look Ma! No Flash!
Dailymotion is excited to launch a new R&D platform dedicated to open video formats and web standards: openvideo.dailymotion.com. You don’t need the Adobe Flash plugin to watch videos on this platform – the only requirement is the latest version of Firefox, 3.5 beta, available here.
No plugins? No Flash?
Nope – for all content from Motionmakers and Official Users we are using the new HTML < video > tag, supported by Firefox 3.5, to display the video, and not any proprietary technology.
via Dailymotion Blog » Archive du blog » Watch Video…without Flash.
Sounds like a good thing to me. Having literally hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of video floating around from various conferences and presentations it will be very nice to able to have a single tag to display it.