- @bjchapm Certainly interesting, but I'm not getting the Wharton degree for free. MOOCs are still just correspondence school courses. in reply to bjchapm 08:17:43, 2013-09-17
- RT @davewiner: Creepy clown terrifying residents by standing around on street corners staring at passers-by. http://t.co/9fdv6g9uFm 23:12:22, 2013-09-17
- RT @courtlistener: Sample data now available for our developers in units of 50, 500, 5,000 or 50,000 randomly selected opinions. http://t.c… 23:15:54, 2013-09-17
- 1Ls Less Distracted by Laptops Than Upperclassmen http://t.co/ORVVT9kSMp via @ALSEdTech 23:53:39, 2013-09-17
My Twitter Digest for 09/16/2013
- Renewed the http://t.co/wHUiHHJqgm domain for a couple of years. Seemed like a good way to start the week. 09:15:48, 2013-09-16
- @aabibliographer Interesting that TRs most recent foray into edu space is a class on manipulating search engines to highlight specific info. in reply to aabibliographer 11:02:46, 2013-09-16
- RT @davewiner: I've long felt that every operating system, web server and web browser should have a great outliner baked-in. http://t.co/8D… 13:30:21, 2013-09-16
- So @davewiner GPL'd a JQuery plugin that is a full featured outliner today. http://t.co/DSlGqwxDac Can't wait to inc it into a few things. 13:39:43, 2013-09-16
- @sglassmeyer Canadian Post Secondary Education? http://t.co/UL7YaWXjIK in reply to sglassmeyer 16:05:29, 2013-09-16
- RT @caliorg: Ground breaking at @GeorgiaStateLaw http://t.co/AQkga60HbQ Maybe we'll have a CALIcon there when it's finished! 18:43:30, 2013-09-16
My Twitter Digest for 09/15/2013
- @trbruce I would think this would make an excellent addition to any library or perhaps a candidate for inter library loan. in reply to trbruce 09:37:41, 2013-09-15
- RT @BenNunney: We live in a world where even trash cans can kernel panic. http://t.co/5iNwob2806 10:59:24, 2013-09-15
- Android essentials: The first 12 apps I install on every phone http://t.co/YVfweAOCDb via @computerworld 11:49:22, 2013-09-15
- RT @adelevie: A login system using @ParseIt and @angularjs: https://t.co/ShFxT0jlEu. Could not be much simpler. 17:10:09, 2013-09-15
- RT @sglassmeyer: New blog post: How Steampunk Can Save Legal Education and Practice Technology http://t.co/s2kUrgo0KF 17:14:02, 2013-09-15
- #NASCAR race at Chicagoland finally restarts after 5 and a half hour rain delay. Will be late for work tomorrow. 22:20:10, 2013-09-15
My Twitter Digest for 09/14/2013
- RT @aliglenesk: We exist in an era where majority of speech occurs on privately owned platforms. There are no laws protecting free speech i… 08:59:14, 2013-09-14
- RT @richards1000: http://t.co/chtjIENDco looks like… something's happening… 09:18:16, 2013-09-14
- RT @mojavelinux: #asciidoctor.js just showed up in the #chrome store to provide live preview for local #asciidoc documents! https://t.co/FD… 09:19:59, 2013-09-14
- From my blog: Boston University School of Law Offers Students $250 to Blog | <CONTENT /> v.6 http://t.co/HuuGj6fg3C 11:40:16, 2013-09-14
- RT @caliorg: CALI #lawschool members have FREE access to our Classcaster blogging platform. Blog your scholarship, classes, current events,… 12:50:11, 2013-09-14
My Twitter Digest for 09/13/2013
- RT @fgbjr: For #lawschool: Introducing #FreeLawFerret, a (free!) case law prep and study tool: http://t.co/zUbXtQtq0e @zotero @HarvLRev 09:18:29, 2013-09-13
- Classcaster is down. We're working on it. @caliorg 10:41:10, 2013-09-13
- I guess the good news is that it isn't just a problem with @caliorg servers, but an issue with Amazon Web Services http://t.co/EmgnleW9Ns 11:19:17, 2013-09-13
- Due to connectivity issues in the Amazon cloud @caliorg websites and services are not reliably available. We're monitoring the situation. 11:21:10, 2013-09-13
- Seems like Amazon has recovered itself and @caliorg web servers and resources including Classcaster are available again. 12:19:13, 2013-09-13
- RT @davewiner: Scripting News: Innovation happens when the gates are down. http://t.co/0jDQYEr2Xt 12:59:15, 2013-09-13
Boston University School of Law Offers Students $250 to Blog
The Communications Office is looking for J.D. students with strong writing skills to blog about their experiences for In their own words: BU Law Student Blogs. These online journals give prospective students a better idea of day-to-day life at the School. Your posts may also be read by prospective employers, alumni, faculty, the media, and anyone who visits the site, so this is an opportunity to showcase your writing as well as your approach to law school and the legal profession in general.
via BU Law | News | Earn $250/semester as a BU Law student blogger.
This is a great idea that gives a voice to law students and provides the rest of us with some insight into what drives law students these days. This is a program that other law schools should copy. A network of school sponsored student written blogs where students write about their law school experiences would be wonderful.
If you’re at a law school and you don’t have access to a local blogging system, you could do this sort of thing on CALI Classcaster.
My Twitter Digest for 09/12/2013
- From my blog: A Law School News Site: Diamond in the Rough or Beach Glass? | <CONTENT /> v.6 http://t.co/iwporlLKP0 08:48:15, 2013-09-12
- @sleers You can fix that. See http://t.co/ttdNxDI5aD for a bit of code to stick in your theme to make it go away. There are also plugins. in reply to sleers 09:09:09, 2013-09-12
- After weeks of delays, San Jose State U. releases research report on online courses http://t.co/sF2MgO05Ls 09:58:55, 2013-09-12
- RT @caliorg: Heard of CALI lessons but want to learn more? Tune in tomorrow @ 3pm EDT! http://t.co/pf4Y0jk0pv Tuesday. http://t.co/YtaK34J… 10:56:58, 2013-09-12
- Next Thursday, Sept. 19, is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. http://t.co/KUWN9D2os0 You have been warned. #PSA #teknoids 11:15:52, 2013-09-12
- Backdrop: Forking Drupal | Pingv :: Creative Engineering http://t.co/xNaLquOm2O [Something interesting to keep an eye on.] 11:28:25, 2013-09-12
- @sglassmeyer Once I had an admin assistant, it was great. Really helped me be more productive. It's a thing I miss about being a director. in reply to sglassmeyer 15:07:02, 2013-09-12
- RT @WilliamShatner: @NASA announced that @NASAVoyager after 36 yrs & 11B miles has reached interstellar space. So it begins… @StarTrek ht… 15:11:57, 2013-09-12
- Apparently that laptop will only boot IF I HIT THE POWER BUTTON!
Just to test some CSS on IE. 15:15:01, 2013-09-12 - RT @TheGovLab: Curious about what @github is and does? Watch this 30-minute tutorial from GovLab research fellow @mehan_j: https://t.co/7yM… 15:15:55, 2013-09-12
- ICYW, I test web stuff on latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, and IE on Windows, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on Mac, plus Linux for fun. 15:25:50, 2013-09-12
- And lest I forget, Safari and Chrome on the iPad. 15:29:09, 2013-09-12
- From my blog: Coder: Learn to Code in a Web Browser With This Version of Raspberry Pi | <CONTENT /> v.6 http://t.co/2UTwi6U3Ke 16:47:58, 2013-09-12
- How Developer Evangelists Build Community, Engagement for Software Firms http://t.co/ZHw1f0m1r4 16:49:44, 2013-09-12
- Free Massive Online Education Provider, Coursera, Begins To Find A Path To Profits http://t.co/prnIexXsuq 22:08:50, 2013-09-12
- RT @caliorg: Tomorrow! 3pm EDT! Find out how use the FREE CALI lesson library of interactive #lawschool tutorials in 15 minutes! http://t.… 22:36:18, 2013-09-12
Coder: Learn to Code in a Web Browser With This Version of Raspberry Pi
Coder is a free, open source project that turns a Raspberry Pi into a simple platform that educators and parents can use to teach the basics of building for the web. New coders can craft small projects in HTML, CSS, and Javascript, right from the web browser.
Just watching the video below is enough to make you want to get coding. This is yet another example of how the Raspberry Pi can change our relationship with computers.
My Twitter Digest for 09/11/2013
- RT @thepastrybox: Hey there, we are now receiving submissions: http://t.co/GdpmtZlkEG 08:01:51, 2013-09-11
- Over the past 30 days the % of folks using IE to browse the @caliorg website has fallen to 7.44%. 09:49:33, 2013-09-11
- RT @robertDouglass: How much backlash will there be to Backdrop, the new fork of #Drupal? https://t.co/e3FSLBzzhk 10:14:53, 2013-09-11
- RT @ChicagolndSpdwy: .@misssprintcup brought the Cup to @willistower. The #ChaseStartsHere w/ the #GEICO400 on 9/15. #ChaseAcrossAmerica ht… 14:59:11, 2013-09-11
- We're rebooting the @caliorg webinar series and we have an RSS feed so you can keep up to date. http://t.co/h2mM7xCYCL 15:05:59, 2013-09-11
- RT @caliorg: CALI's September Webinars schedule is up: http://t.co/rW1hmEQ4p4 Subscribe to the new RSS feed and never miss one! http://t.c… 15:13:57, 2013-09-11
- Sneak peek, side project: Law School News http://t.co/x6zVZQq6nK More soon. 18:12:12, 2013-09-11
- Stetson Law launches new Institute for the Advancement of Legal Communication http://t.co/mmIp1fAQMI 18:14:56, 2013-09-11
A Law School News Site: Diamond in the Rough or Beach Glass?
Recently while sifting through my project folder I cam across the bits and pieces of a law school news feed aggregator. I had started the code and gathered a dozen or so feeds with an idea of pulling together news from law schools around the country. Like many other weekend projects I had roughed it out and set it aside. The discovery of the code seemed like a nudge to do something with law school news feeds and so a site was born. I’m inviting folks to take a look and let me know if they think is some thing useful that should be further developed or not.
First a disclaimer: This is a personal project and is strictly “nights and weekends”. It is hosted on one of my personal servers. It is not related to any work project I’ve got going.
Let me introduce Law School News, a news reader for law school news feeds. The site gathers news items from the feeds of about 114 US law schools and presents them in an easy to read fashion. Various pages provide lists of feeds and channels to get news on specific schools and topics. Basic search functionality is available.
The feeds included in the site represent about half the law schools in the US. I gathered feed URLs by visiting every law school website and attempting to locate an RSS or Atom feed. I used the links to law school websites found on the LSAC Law School Links page to get to each school’s site. Once on a site I looked for a RSS feed link on the homepage or checked the school’s news page. I did not make any effort to hunt down the feeds if they were not plainly visible. Many schools had more than one feed and in those cases I selected the one that appeared to be a general news feed.
Please note that if you look at the feeds list and see that a particular school is missing it is because either I couldn’t easily locate a feed or the link for the feed didn’t work properly. I have not made a list of schools without feed or with feeds that didn’t work properly. If I missed your school’s feed, let me know in the comments below.
As for the future of this project, who can tell. I would like to expand the coverage to all of the feeds that schools have and that would move beyond news into events, blogs, and library information. And I could certainly wouldn’t mind some help, especially with the tagging of feeds and items. If you’re interested in helping out, let me know in the comments.