The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
Law Librarian Blog: Law Professor Blogs Network Launches Several New Blogs – By my count that brings their total up to 34. Pretty good. For comparison, Classcaster has some 50 active bloggers at the moment, many of whom are also podcasting. Of course the focus of most CC blogs is course related, with content focused on the current course(s) the prof is teaching. There are some librarian run blogs with a broader education al focus.
Blogged with Flock
Harvard Law’s Berkman Center and LexisNexis Partner to Study Law School Curriculum
LexisNexis Media Relations – September 20, 2006 News Release
Wow. Interesting headline. There are a couple of killer quotes though. For instance,
A white paper created by the Berkman Center under the supervision of John Palfrey will be released at the end of the year.
and the intriguing,
The Berkman Center, one of the premier research centers in the world focusing on the intersection of law and technology, includes among its ranks such notable faculty as Charles Nesson, Charles Ogletree, John Palfrey, Jonathan Zittrain, William Fisher, and Lawrence Lessig. This project is unrelated to work and opinions on copyright and in no way represent an endorsement by LexisNexis of those views. This partnership is an example that business and academe can work together for the benefit of legal education while agreeing to disagree on other issues of import.
Cool, another white paper. That’ll help. And LN wants to make sure that nobody thinks its endorsing any of this Open Source, Creative Commons crap. Good position.
Well that’s enough snarky for the moment.
Blogged with Flock
The University of California, Berkeley is the preeminent public research and teaching institution in the nation . From classic literature to emerging technologies, the curricula of our 130 academic departments span the wide world of thought and knowledge. Supported by the people of California, the university has embraced public service as an essential part of its mission since 1868. The content on this page —drawn from campus seminars, courses and events—is just one part of UC Berkeley’s commitment to the broadest possible dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of our state, the nation and the world.
Blogged with Flock
Vancouver Law Librarian Blog: Top 10 Uses for RSS in Law Firms – good list. Via Scripting News.
Blogged with Flock
It’s on the Web at http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/adayinthelife/.”Ninety percent of our applications last year were filed electronically,” said Ann K. Perry, assistant dean for admis-sions. “These applicants are just online all the time.”So the new blog is a recruiting tool, “another way for us to communicate with the prospective students in a way that they like and enjoy.”
University of Chicago Law School > News 09.22.2006: More on the New Admissions Blog
More and more schools need to be doing this sort of thing. Yes, you can use Classcaster for an admissions blog. Since law students and future law students are spending more and more time online, all facets of your law school better have a live and dynamic presence online too. The old updated once a year by changing 2005 to 2006 approach to websites is just not going to work very much longer. You need to be out there, putting fresh material on the site weekly if not more often, using RSS, podcasts, forums, even chat sessions to connect with students and future students. Classcaster can provide a platform for lots of this. Or use some other solution. It doesn’t really matter what hammer you use, just drive that nail:) You law school will be better for it.
technorati tags:classcaster
Blogged with Flock
Open-source database maker MySQL AB has quietly dropped support for BerkeleyDB, the embeddable database Oracle Corp. acquired in February.From the current beta version of MySQL 5.1.12 going forward, MySQL will no longer allow BerkeleyDB to serve as one of its storage engines, according to a posting on MySQL’s Web site late last month.MySQL is one of the few databases that lets users choose among different engines to store data in a format best suited to their needs. The default engine, MYISAM, and InnoDB are seen as the most widely used by MySQL users.
MySQL drops support for BerkeleyDB
No surprises here. Now all that remains is to see what MySQL does about the InnoDB engine that is also now owned by Oracle
technorati tags:oracle, mysql, database, BerkelyDB
Blogged with Flock
And now Adobe Systems wants to replicate its success in video space in the Voice over the Internet (VoIP) arena, making it easy to embed voice into web applications. GigaOM has learnt of a secret start-up project currently being incubated by the $1.9 billion in annual sales software giant. Some members of this startup come from the Macromedia Breeze (now called Acrobat Connect Professional) conferencing group. (Breeze is a Flash based web-conferencing system, much like WebEx.) Though less than a year old, the start-up has started to attract some serious VoIP talent.
GigaOM » Flash In The VoIP Pan
Man, if htis is true, the implications for Classcaster could be incredible. I’ve really wanted to add the capabilty to record and podcast over the web in a reliable fashion. Right now I think that using Asterisk as the base for podcastiong would be a key, but recording SIP or any other VOIP over the web is not for the faint-hearted.
Blogged with Flock
The Knight-Batten Foundation awarded Global Voices Online, a citizen media project run by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Grand Prize for Innovations in Journalism.The Knight-Batten Awards spotlight the creative use of new information, ideas and technologies to involve citizens in public issues. They are administered by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland.
I hadn’t heard of Global Voices Online until I saw this announcemnt. From the Global Voices about page:
Our global team of regional blogger-editors is working to find, aggregate
and track these conversations. Each day they link to 5-10 of the most
interesting blog posts from their regions in the “daily roundups”
section. A larger group of contributing bloggers is posting daily
features in in the left-hand Weblog section, shedding light on what
blogging communities in their countries have been talking about
recently.
There is a lot of information here and the site provides an interesting alternative source for news and information about what is going on around the world.
Blogged with Flock
DeanWuBlog – Dean Frank Wu of Wayne State University Law School has been gearing up for the new law school academic year with his own Classcaster blog. No podcasts yet, but we are hopeful. It is refreshing to here from a Dean directly on matters such as faculty appointments. I do hope that other Deans round and about take notice and cruise on over to Classcaster setup their own blogs.
technorati tags:classcaster, cali, law_school
Blogged with Flock
BoleyBlogs! – Tips for 1Ls – Great resources for those starting their legal education. Highlights the many resources of CALI.
Blogged with Flock