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« Older EntriesThe Tiny Limits of Storage
Just a month after a science fiction writer speculated on storage devices the size of a grain of sand comes news from the magazine Science of developments in magnetic anisotropy that could eventually be used to store information in individual atoms, paving the way to pack as much as 150 trillion bits of data per [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Laser Dust
We’ve talked briefly about paper for the paperless office, and now it’s printers that are in the news. “Particle Emission Characteristics of Office Printers,” by Congrong He, Lidia Morawska, and Len Taplin in Environmental Science & Technology [abstract], has kicked up a dust storm because of its finding that 40% of printers studied emitted particles [...]
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Medison Celebrity
Here’s the deal: you get a 14-inch-screen (slow) laptop computer running Linux and sporting built-in wireless, ready to roll with installed office and email software and a 40 Gig hard drive delivered to your house (in 4-6 weeks) all for the low, low price of — wait for it! —
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Chesapeake Bay Project
Along with Michael Lines, I attended the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Very hot and humid, but I can attest to the restorative properties of Abita Brewing Company’s Amber.
One of the more interesting sessions at the conference was a presentation by the Chesapeake Bay Project. This is a collaborative [...]
La version française des Principes de Sedona Canada est disponible pour commentaires
Simon a déjà écrit à propos de la publication pour commentaires des Principes de Sedona Canada sur la “Production of Electronic Document”.
Finalement, après de longues heures de rédaction et de traduction (merci à ma conjointe!!) les Principes de Sedona Canada concernant l’administration de la preuve électronique (édition française!) sont disponibles pour commentaires.
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IFLA World Library & Information Congress – Quebec City August 2008
A First Announcement has gone out that IFLA, the International Federal of Library Associations and Institutions, will be holding its 74th general conference and council in Quebec City, August 10-15, 2008. The conference theme sounds, hmm, vaguely familiar: “Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding”. More details to follow. [...]
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Gmail Papier!
Google a enfin compris qu’il est impossible de lire en ligne mais surtout que l’archivage se fait beaucoup plus facilement en papier. Ainsi, on nous offre Google Papier(en anglais seulement pour le moment). Ce service vous permet d’imprimer tous vos courriels et de vous les faire livrer dans une belle boîte Gmail, le tout gratuitement évidemment!
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Federal Legislation Site Down?
Couldn’t get access to the Federal legislation and regulations at the official site, either yesterday or today, either through IE or Mozilla. Does anyone know what’s happening?
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Leg@l IT Conference: The E-Discovery Panel (final session)
[this post is the last of a series covering the Leg@l IT Conference]
The last session of the day was the much awaited panel on the topic of e-discovery, featuring Justice David J. Waxse, USA District Court of Kansas City; Me Patrick L. Oot, Verizon Communications; Mr. Robert M. Gerbrandt, TD Bank; Mr. Rafael Gonzalez Caloni, [...]
Leg@l IT Conference: The Daily Paperless Office
[this post is one of a series covering the Leg@l IT Conference]
Me Yvan Houle, from Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, presented a session titled “La boîte à outils quotidienne: un cabinet virtuel sans papier”. His presentation covered the views of a litigator concerning the daily paperless office.
Me Houle took some time to explore the issue [...]
Leg@l IT Conference: Judges Panel
[this post is one of a series covering the Leg@l IT Conference]
The Judges Panel was the highlight of the conference. I was looking forward to hear the views from the Bench concerning “Judicial IT”. The panel included Justice Bastarache from the Supreme Court of Canada, Justice Morrissette from the Court of Appeal of Québec, Justice [...]
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