MP3 Player and Recorder from SanDisk
Sandisk’s new Sansa e200 MP3 players do more than play music. They can capture it with a built-in FM tuner or record audio through a tiny embedded microphone. The one-button recording option is ideal for a lecture or for taking case notes without the need to fumble with an external microphone. Sounds can be played back through headphones or transferred to a computer.
Digital Marriage of Audio Recorder and MP3 Player – New York Times
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Blogs Gaining Notice in Legal Arena
Berman has penned more than 50 law review articles and commentaries, he estimates that only about a half-dozen of those traditional forms of published scholarship have been cited in judicial opinions.His popular Sentencing Law & Policy Blog, on the other hand, has been cited in more than a dozen cases, including a dissenting opinion in a 2005 landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court (United States v. Booker).
In the News – Full Article, In the News, News and Events, School of Law, Northwestern University
Good article on the increasing impact of blogs for legal academics and practioners. Seems that blogging is becoming an accepted format for legal writing.Blogged with Flock
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Is Classcaster CLE Worthy?
I recently received the latest update from West LegalEdcenter regarding the recent additions to their online CLE (continuing legal education) programs. The message featured the following:
Award Winning ‘Justice Talking’ Programs
from NPR Now Available on West LegalEdcenterNPR’s award-winning ‘Justice Talking’ programs are now available for CLE credit at West LegalEdcenter! Created by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and hosted by veteran NPR reporter Margot Adler, the series features an entertaining and educational mix of voices and opinions from the nation’s leading advocates, legal scholars, and policymakers.
Select from a list of more than 25 recent ‘Justice Talking’ programs or choose our featured program, recorded earlier this month.
Of course I followed the link. It took me a page offering to sell me downloadable versions of NPR’s Justice Talking series for $60 a piece. $60! Just listen to this and receive CLE credit in 19 states. Wow! I then decided to delve a bit. I surfed over to the Justice Talking site and found the very same episodes available for free download. Of course just downloading them doesn’t mean you can get the credit:) That would be too easy.
Anyway, I gave a listen to the free NPR downloads and it occured to me that there is not a lot of difference between Justice Talking and some of the podcasts on Classcaster. So what if we licensed the podcasts on Classcaster to awest for use in CLE? Of course only with permission of the authors. Something to think about.
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Open Sourced Reporting. How About Open Sourced Law Reviews?
The site uses open source methods to develop good assignments and help bring them to completion; it employs professional journalists to carry the project home and set high standards so the work holds up. There are accountability and reputation systems built in that should make the system reliable. The betting is that (some) people will donate to works they can see are going to be great because the open source methods allow for that glimpse ahead.In this sense it’s not like donating to your local NPR station, because your local NPR station says, “thank you very much, our professionals will take it from here.” And they do that very well. New Assignment says: here’s the story so far. We’ve collected a lot of good information. Add your knowledge and make it better. Add money and make it happen. Work with us if you know things we don’t.
PressThink: Introducing NewAssignment.Net
Note that this is just an idea so far, newassignment.net does not exist yet. The whole aritcle is rather long, but worth read, so go read it and come back.
Welcome back. Now, suppose a law review editorial board posted a bunch of ideas for aritcles to a wiki-like site? We would like to publish articles concerning… Law students view the ideas, chip in some basic research stuff, a case here, a blog there. Faculty come along and claim the aritcle, pull together the resources, work with their virtual research assistants to create the final article. Credit is shared, the article is published by the journal. Comments?
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New Orleans Law Firm Revamps Backups Post Katrina
That revealed a flaw in the law firm’s disaster planning. “We had our data, and it was safe in New Orleans, but it was inaccessible,” he says. “We were protecting our data, but we weren’t fully protecting the processes of our business.”
Zeller has set up a Web-based e-mail system to forward mail so during a blackout when both Baton Rouge and New Orleans are shut down, e-mail would be available through a separate Web site domain.
Also, the law firm has set up a Web site where employees can log their current location in an emergency. The site also contains phone numbers of close friends and relatives who live out of the likely path of hurricanes who will know the locations of employees.
Chaffe McCall has learned that the best disaster recovery planning can’t bring the business back up any faster than the people who work there can learn to cope. “That first week a lot of people were still getting their acts together on a personal level realizing they had just lost everything they owned,” Zeller says.
Law firm retools its backup scenario
There is a lot here for law schools to learn. When disaster strikes, are you prepared? Reminds me of the Law School Emergency Planning Project, described here and talked about at the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing®. Law schools really need to be working on this sort of thing because when it happens, it’s too late.
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