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Imagine being able to relate to vendors — productively, on mutually agreeable terms — rather than just paying them money for whatever they’re selling, and occasionally giving them “feedback” through surveys that aggregate our “input” inside some impersonal “customer relationship management” (CRM) system. That’s the idea behind VRM, or Vendor Relationship Management. It’s the reciprocal of CRM: a toolset for independence and engagement. That is, of independence from vendors and engagement with vendors.

Can we relate? | Linux Journal

VRM is just getting going at http://projectvrm.org/ and is being backed by Berkman.  This is a good idea that I hope catches on.

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After four successful years of revolutionizing how content is shared in the real world, Lawrence Lessig, founding chairman of Creative Commons, announced his retirement as chairman of the board last week. Lessig passed the CC torch to Joi Ito, a venture capitalist from Japan.

NewsForge | Creative Commons gets new chairman; Lessig to continue as CEO

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Three winners received $100,000 grants: The Internet Archive, the University of Washington, and Humboldt State University. The Internet Archive was recognized for its Heritrix Web crawler and its work archiving Internet content. The University of Washington was recognized for the ongoing development of its IMAP email server and PINE email client. Humboldt State University was recognized for its development of the Moodle course management system.

NewsForge | Education, information access top Mellon Foundation award winners

Nice to see PINE recognized:)

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Nationally recognized legal scholar Jim Chen has been named the new dean of the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville.Chen leaves the posts of associate dean and James L. Krusemark Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Chen named dean of Brandeis School of Law :: News :: University of Louisville — dare to be great

Dean Chen is, among his other credentials, a blogger.  He manages the Jurisdynamics Network and is a contributing editor on Law School Innovation.*  I hope he plans on continuing his blogging as moves to new challenges.

*I am also a contributing editor on Law School Innovation

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SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check – Valleywag – Good piece on the perils of getting pushed into the hype surrounding Second Life.  It reminds us that 3-D virtual environments have been a good idea for many years, but have never been really caught on to a mass market.

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The Chroncile of Higher Education is reporting that the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar will be recognized as the sole accreditor of American law schools for the next 18 months, rather than for five years, the standard usually agreed to by the department’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity. Staff members of the advisory committee cited concerns that the bar association’s accrediting council has no controls or rules in place to ensure the consistent application of its diversity standards.

Law Librarian Blog: Education Department Renews Law-School Accreditor’s Authority but Questions Its Diversity Requirements

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The American Bar Association’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has voted to grant provisional accreditation to the Charleston School of Law, Dean Richard Gershon announced today. Provisional accreditation is the highest form of accreditation that can be granted any school at this stage.  The vote means the first class of students who graduate from the new school next May will be able to take the South Carolina Bar Examination.

Charleston School of Law

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