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♫ They used to tell me
I was building a dream.
And so I followed the mob
…
Brother, can you spare a dime? ♫
Lyrics by Yip Harburg and music by: Jay Gorney.
There is one magical quality of a picture – it can convey information in a manner that drives home a point faster than text could ever [...]
Manic Mondays – A Prologue
As of tomorrow, the modern remnant of the “Long Vacation”[1] is over for us Canadian civil litigators. Some of us might be starting trials, tomorrow.
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down
from I Don’t Like Mondays (c) The Boomtown Rats, Bob Geldof (1979)
Especially if one isn’t prepared. Preparation means facts and law. One can’t know [...]
The Guardian praises Bailii
In praise of… free law
Leader – The Guardian
Monday September 3, 2007
History tends to forget that the Sheriff of Nottingham had a greater purpose than hunting down Robin Hood. Like every county sheriff, he was supposed to ensure that the burghers of Notts knew the law of the land, however recently it had been proclaimed [...]
Save the Reading Room
Today’s Guardian Blog”>Guardian Blog contains an impassioned plea to keep the world’s most famous reading room as just that.
The Reading Room was Karl Marx’s office. It was used by a large number of famous figures, including notably Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, Mahatma Gandhi, Rudyard Kipling, George Orwell, George Bernard Shaw, V. I. Lenin (under [...]
Buying a Condo? Law Library now a Selling Feature
Slaw readers with the recollection of Funes the Memorious may recall a posting about a hotel in Chandigarh which advertised a law library as one of its guest features.
Today’s Costar news bulletin features the sale of a floor of a building at 36 W. 44th St. in the Grand Central District, which features tenant-controlled HVAC [...]
Paterva’s Evolution
A company called Paterva (which might be South African) is offering Evolution, a search engine that focuses on people and organizations (and associated data such as phone numbers, email addresses etc.), purporting to reveal connections between people that are significant. It seems aimed at security firms, investigators and the like (opening tagline: “Your new enemy [...]
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The Need to Digitize Historical Canadian Legislation
The recent posting on SLAW about Carl Malmud’s “maverick” actions of shaming the U.S. government by himself publishing American case law on the Internet got me thinking.
Can we in Canada not shame our governments into digitizing the historical versions of federal and provincial legislation in a manner similar to that done in Alberta through [...]
European Media Monitor
There’s some hyper-sophisto online stuff coming out of the EU. A while back I pointed you to the European Navigator, a complex search and education tool for the community. Now I’ve run across the Europe Media Monitor (EMM) [en français], a joint initiative of the European Commission Directorate General’s Joint Research Center and the Directorate [...]
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Google Maps Can Now Be Embedded
Google Maps today released the ability to embed (through inline frames) a map within a website. This could be handy for all sorts of things. I’ve embedded below the map I created some time back, when Google first released My Maps, showing the location of Slaw’s core contributors. I’ve chosen the small size, from the [...]
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Heat Maps and Confetti
Ever wanted to know which links users are drawn to on your website?
For the past week, I’ve been testing out Crazyegg.com, which will track site visitors and clicks with a tiny snippet of code in your website template. The free subscription for this site offers up to 6000 page impressions, and creates a series [...]
Looking Inside With XRAY
Unless you’re someone who builds or modifies web pages, you can unfurrow that brow and relax into a “what will they think of next” state of mild wonder. And until they think of that next thing, XRAY is worth a look. It’s a patch of JavaScript, acting as a bookmarklet, that takes the source code [...]
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Zoho Writer Offline
The latest lovechild of the Zoho-Google cuddlefest is an offline capacity for Zoho Writer. After installing Google Gears (see my post on Understanding RIA), you’ll see that there’s an offline button that appears in your Zoho Writer toolbar. According to an information video, this currently lets you download 15 documents to be read — but [...]
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American Law Reports being removed from Lexis
According to a post today on Information Today’s Newsbreaks page, Thomson West will be making the American Law Reports exclusive to Westlaw as of January 2008. In the post, Carol Ebbinghouse, director of the California Second District Court of Appeal Library, writes about the origin and history of the ALRs. She also says:
As a [...]
Reading Law Online
Reading online is not a perfect experience. Many folks won’t tackle long documents at all and print whatever needs to be read. Whether or not new paper-like paper-thin monitors will change text readability in the future, there are a few things we can do now to improve online readability of text — and one new [...]
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Firedoodle
Those of you who use Firefox may want to take a look at a new add-on, Firedoodle. It provides a toolbar that lets you annotate any web page — that is, treat that page as though it were a whiteboard — and then save the annotations. You can draw in various colours of variable opacity; [...]
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