The Shorty Awards – For Law

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Delayed post – the British Colonist now online Walking in the Other Person’s Steel Toed Boots The Shorty Awards – For Law by Omar Ha-RedeyeOmar Ha-Redeye has a background in Nuclear Medicine Technology, Health Management and Public Relations. He is currently a law student at the University of Western Ontario. [click on the author's name to go to email and web page links] on December 13th, 2008 Twitter users have been abuzz over the Shorty Awards, The best producers of short (140 characters or less) content in 2008. After a little bit of pestering there is now a law category. There are some heavyweight “Tweeters” among Slaw readers and contributors, so I figured this would be of some interest. Respond: Make a comment Share: Email \| Save as PDF \| Print \| Linkedin, Facebook, Delicious, other More: on Awards or TECHNOLOGY \| by Omar Ha-Redeye SOME COMMENTS MODERATED If you have not had an approved comment here before, your comment will be held for approval. 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