The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
Alumnus Hulett (Bucky) Askew 67L has been named the Consultant on Legal Education to the American Bar Association (ABA). Askew, who will start the prestigious position this summer in Chicago, spent six years on the ABA’s Accreditation Committee and two years on the Council of the Section. He served for fifteen years as the Director of Bar Admissions for the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Emory Law School: Askew 67L Named to Prestigious Position with ABA
“The New York Times is reporting that Amazon is now providing the ability for authors to reach out to their fans via blogs in a program called Amazon Connect. So far, Amazon has recruited a group of about a dozen authors, including novelists, writers of child care manuals and experts on subjects as diverse as real estate investing, science, fishing and the lyrics of the Grateful Dead. Now the authors finally have the ability to respond back to comments!
Sounds like a great idea. Plenty of potential for something like this in the CALIverse, blogs for authors, or at least someplace for students to provide feedback, etc. Of course it’s a bit more complicated in the wolrd of educator-student, but in the proper context it would be a good thing.
technorati tags: Amazon connect
Self-help Web site HowStuffWorks said Thursday it plans to significantly expand its online reference material by slicing and dicing books into versions meant for an Internet audience.With new funding from rebel financier Carl Icahn, the HowStuffWorks Web site is now digitizing the entire library of Publications International Ltd., a 35-year-old publisher of books concerning interactive learning, cooking, sports, automotive, inspirational and leisure, plus photo collections and stationery items.
Self-Help Web Site Slices and Dices Books
technorati tags: rip, mix, learn, rip mix learn
WordPress Development Blog › WordPress on Yahoo – WP joins Movable Type as a blog opiton on the Yahoo Web Hosting service.
technorati tags: wordpress, yahoo web hosting
Since I’ve been using Flock my blogging habits have changed. Thanks to Flock’s builtin blogging client I can connect to all of my various blog and blog-like sites to create and edit posts. So I can post to <CONTENT /> (WordPress), Teknoids (Drupal), and CALIopolis (LifeType) from a single consistant interface. This is cool. Flock makes it happen through the magic of XML-RPC and assorted blogging APIs. Bottomline: given the ease of posting I’ve shifted where stuff gets posted.
This blog, <CONTENT />, remains my primary personal blog. Anything may turn up here, but it is likely to be stuff that concerns my interests in technology and education. My occasional ramblings on whatever catches my brain will end up here.
Links to and posts about cool tech tools and some tech news are going to Teknoids. I’m still using the ‘cooltool’ category to mark these posts on Teknoids. My hope is that posting there will provide more information to my teknoid friends. The focus is mainly on stuff that Ifind useful and that is of use to legal academia in a broad sense.
Finally, educational and instructional technology oriented posts are going to CALIopolis, the official blog of CALI. Generally things that would be within the CALI mission will get blogged there.
del.icio.us is down for maintenance. we’ll be back in one hour.
Seems there was some sort of power failure in the data center. Disasters suck.
technorati tags: del.icio.us
Like VoIP hacks and all things telephony? Check out out O’Reilly’s new Emerging Telephony site – ETel for short
Review: Home pages are making a comeback, thanks to AJAX and Flash-powered “desktop” applications. Inside, a look at seven desktop and homepage apps vying for your news feeds, bookmarks, and sticky notes.
Year in Review: AJAX Desktops and Homepages
Good reveiw of 7 AJAX implementations that bring a lot to the table. Via Microsoft Watch
Amazon on Tuesday rolled out the Alexa Web Search Platform, which opens up 5 billion documents and 300 terabytes of data to anyone, along with offering computer and storage time for processing tasks. The idea is to enable the creation of new services that utilize Alexa’s vast Web archive and search technology.
BetaNews | Amazon Opens Up Alexa Search Index
This of course got lots of blog coverage. The big take away: developers can reach into the what Alex has crawled and develop services on top of it for reasonable fees. Look for some exciting search products to turn up shortly and I wouldn’t be surprised if the Google API opens up a bit more.
technorati tags: Alexa, Amazon, search, <CONTENT /> v.4
The Small Customer Bundle costs $4,000 and joins MySQL Certified Binaries with Business Object’s Data Integrator (DI) Basic, Crystal Reports and CR Server software. The price includes unlimited installation help and five incidents of online support from Business Objects, as well as licenses for one source and one designer for DI Basic, five named users for CR Server and one named user for Crystal Reports.
MySQL, Business Objects team for bundled offerings – Computerworld
I wonder if CALI needs to go down this road? It may be a help to us to have real commercial apps for some of the routine reporting we need thereby freeing up our time to do other cool things.
technorati tags: mysql, business object, <Content /> v.4