In today’s issue of IT Management, an interview with Pamela Jones the editor of Groklaw.
Groklaw is a blog and website devoted to covering and explaining legislative and jurisprudential issues of interest to the Free Software and Open Source communities – Ms. Strong recently won a Knowledge Trust Honors award, which honours the best of the best in information and library science and information technology. . . . [more]
I’ve blogged a couple of times already about Zotero, that impressive Firefox extension that operates as a note-taker and bibliographic software. Zotero can tell when you’re viewing a book or an article or, now, a legal judgment, but until recently it had no category, if you like, for blog entry. That’s changed.
COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) is a simple way of embedding citation metadata in web pages. Zotero developed a WordPress plugin that uses the COinS specification for making basic metadata available to it. ((There seems to be a problem with the way the plugin interacts with version 2.2.2 . . . [more]
Announced yesterday, a new Canadian law blog is now available via the Financial Post blog community called Legal Post Docket. After blogging for a couple months behind closed doors, it *looks* like the wrapping was taken off yesterday morning (Oct. 10th). Not sure on that…. perhaps someone from LPD can chime in with an answer? Also a test to see if they’re following other Canadian legal blogs like Slaw. Timer starts now! ;-)
Most of the entries are from Jim Middlemiss, formerly connected with both Law Times and Canadian Lawyer, and two other notable Canadian legal writers . . . [more]
Slaw is proud to appear, along with five other great blogs, in Binary Law’s list of “6 top legal info and legal web marketing blogs.” Tagged in one of those “top ten xxx” memes, Nick Holmes, the doyen of Binary Law, chose half a dozen blogs from his blogroll:
Thanks, Nick. It’s good company you’ve put us in. . . . [more]
Some links to a podcast discussion of how the speed and collaborative nature of blogs is a real challenge to the traditional model of law journals.
In Santa Clara, a debate on Blogging, Scholarship, and the Bench and Bar Video: The event can be viewed by visiting this link.
Event login info: Username: aals, Password: scu2007
And a good discussion at Law.com, in a thoughtful posting and a further provocation, the debate continues. . . . [more]
We learn from Technaute that Praized, a Quebec web2.0 startup, just got an 1M$ investment from the canadian branch of Garage Technology Venture, the venture capital company behind Pandora. Knowing that Pandora is now unaccessible to canadians, lets hope the same will not happen to Praized… It should not be the case due to the type of application they are developping. Here is a quote from their website:
. . . [more]Praized Media is a startup company working on a web-based application that will enable you to find and discover local places and merchants with help from people you can
Yesterday a new book on the Law of Blogging was released. It’s available for $9.95 directly from the author as a PDF download only.
The Contents sketch out a broad range of topics: . . . [more]
I’m finally figuring out some things when it comes to ‘talking’ once and ‘publishing’ many. Ok Matthews, what are you going on about? 2.0 of course! Facebook, Blogging, RSS feeds and Twitter to be exact.
One of the awkward things about all these 2.0 applications is deciding where to publish. Where do I put my thoughts online? Do I blog, linkblog, twitter, or facebook? Well, I *think* I have a solution!
That is the question asked in an article published last week in the Legal Times.
It provides an overview of the increasing use of the legal blogosphere by tenured law professors to pursue legal scholarship:
. . . [more]“If you are looking for the future of legal scholarship, chances are that you may find it not in a treatise or the traditional law review but in a different form, profoundly influenced by the blogosphere (…) Who are the bloggers? The uninitiated might think they would be young professors, those who have grown up with the Internet and are comfortable with self-publication in
The Online Education Database came up with a method to determine who the top library bloggers are.
The methodology took into account various measures such as Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati Authority, and number of Bloglines subscribers.
These contests are always a bit “iffy” (see post questioning some of the criteria) but what the heck? Let’s pat ourselves on the back.
5 blogs featuring law librarians (including 2 Canucks who are Slawyers!) made the top 25 list:
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