Berkman Buzz: Week of April 21, 2008
BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations. If you'd like to receive this by email, just sign up here. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law SchoolWeek of April 21, 2008* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *What's going on...take your pick or browse below.read more
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Berkman Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: lkoss
Canada Gazette Part I News Feeds
The Canada Gazette Directorate has introduced RSS feeds for the Canada Gazette, Part I.
Feeds are available for the following categories:
Department of the Environment
Department of Transport
Department of Health
Notices of Vacancy
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - April 25, 2008
Ethan Zuckerman: the history of digital community, in less than 7 minutes
Photo: RubyJi, CC by-nc-sa
Fasten your time machine seatbelt. As part of the Berkman Center’s ongoing tenth anniversary celebration, Berkman@10, we’re retrieving some classics from our multimedia archive and adding them to our new YouTube channel.read more
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Berkman Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: syoung Tags: Berkman@10
New Book: Police Guide to Search and Seizure
Police Guide to Search and Seizure by James A. Fontana and David Keeshan. (KM580.2 F66 2003)
Discusses search warrants, special search powers, duties of the peace officer, personal and vehicle searches, seizure of bodily samples, electronic surveillance, computer-related searches, Charter issues, and rules for the disposing of seized goods. Includes summaries of key cases and explanations of how they affect police conduct.
Available in Vancouver, Kamloops, Kelowna, Nanaimo, New Westminster, Prince George and Victoria.
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - April 25, 2008
Supreme Court of Canada Cases: Search and Seizure
The Supreme Court of Canada released the following decisions today:
R. v. A.M., 2008 SCC 19; File No. 31496 (Police using sniffer dog to search school for illicit drugs)
R. v. Kang-Brown, 2008 SCC 18; File No. 31598 (Police using sniffer dog to search baggage at bus station)
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - April 25, 2008
How Trademark Law Casts A Dark Cloud Over Free Speech
The Citizen Media Law Project is preparing the intellectual property sections of its legal guide. An article by Professor Bill McGeveran provides some grist for the mill, raising questions about "free-expression-related defenses to trademark claims."
From the Citizen Media Law Project blog...read more
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Berkman Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: syoung
For Your Clients Traffic Tickets
From the e-newsletter: What is a traffic violation "points" system? What's the difference between a moving violation and a "fix-it"...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Your Firm ' s Website
"SharePoint Simplifies Project Management"
In the news: Whether as attorneys, IT administrators or otherwise, we're all project managers. IT veteran Mark Gerow shows how...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Microsoft
"5 Ideas to Come Up with Blog Content from Your Daily Life"
Posted by Darren Rowse: Many bloggers suffer from the daily grind of having to find new posts for their blog...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Blogs/Blogging
This is an Interesting Blog
Virtually Blind: Writer and intellectual property attorney, Benjamin Duranske, blogs about legal issues that affect virtual worlds, or 3-dimensional networked...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Blogs/Blogging
"'Green' Trademarks -- A Sign of More Green From Environmental Businesses"
Posted by Carolyn Elefant: How can you tell that environmental business is the next dot-com? Look no further than the...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Uncategorized
"Measuring Your Law Firm's Billing Cycle"
Posted by Brian J. Ritchey: One of the observations in the 2007 Law Firm Economic Survey by LexisNexis and a...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Business of Lawyering
"Legal Outsourcing and a Look at an Earlier New Thing"
Posted by Ron Friedmann: Legal process outsourcing continues to make the news in mainstream media. This time its Time. And...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Outsourcing Legal Work
"Do Something! Manage Your Email Inbox"
Posted by Allison Shields: I read something recently that indicated that by 2009, workers will spend up to 41% of...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: E-Mail
Where the Bill of Rights and Nigerian spam overlap
Click through to the Indexed blog
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novalawcity - April 25, 2008 Author: Meg Kribble
What Voting Rights?
In early April, the Eleventh Circuit upheld
Fla. Stat. § 97.053(6), which, a coalition of civil rights groups and voter
registration groups contended, improperly deprives Florida residents of the
right to vote based on clerical errors made on voter registration forms.
The case of Florida State
Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v.
Browning tested the application of the federal Help America
Vote Act, or HAVA, which was passed to remedy the situation which occurred in
the 2000 elections, when many qualified voters were turned away from the polls
as ineligible. HAVA provid...
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novalawcity - April 25, 2008 Author: Deborah McGovern
New UBC SLAIS Course on LIS 2.0?
I have some fantastic news... Dean Giustini is part of group in early exploratory stages looking at creating an LIS 2.0 program out at UBC SLAIS.Drop by & check out the comments in Dean's post and this wiki page to see some of the early thought processes. The other reason I'm enthusiastic about this initiative is that Brian Lamb is listed as one of the stakeholders. I read Brian's blog all the time, and think he has great vision.We're long due for a course like this on the west coast, but certainly not behind the times. There's a great opportunity to learn from others who have gone before -(via Dean's wiki page...)...
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Vancouver Law Librarian Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Steve Matthews
The Web Development Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet
Check out Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets by VirtualHosting's Jessica Hupp. The list is broken down into the follow categories: General cheat sheet lists Client-side cheat sheet for CSS, HTML, etc. Server-Side cheat sheets for PHP, Python,...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Tech Tips
A Survey of University Cost Containment Practices
Cost Containment: A Survey of Current Practices at America’s State Colleges and Universities is a new report from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities: "Member institutions of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities are witnessing measurable...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Think Tank Reports
What Can You (Legally) Take From the Web?
Interesting post from IEEE Spectrum describing how copyright applies to bloggers and webmasters. Check it out! See also: Legal Consequences of Co-Blogging: "The decision to blog collaboratively can have significant legal consequences for the co-bloggers. In part 1 of a...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Web Communications
The Law and Politics Book Review's Fiction Issue
The Law and Politics Book Review has published a special issue devoted to fiction. The issue reviews twenty-two American, British, and European novels from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Including some unexpected novels, this is a good checklist for...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Collection Development
New Textbooks for Legal Research and Writing Courses
McKinney's Legal Research: A Practical Guide and Self-Instructional Workbook, 5th with 2008 Computer Assisted Legal Research Package By Scott Childs and Ruth A McKinney List Price: $52.00 Publisher: West Law School (American Casebook Series)(March 2008) ISBN: 031418502X Format: Softbound Book...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: New Publications
Friday Fun: Project Law School
A parody of Project Runway from the Cardozo Law Revue 2008. [JH]
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Law Librarian Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Friday Fun
Senate Passes Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
Yesterday, the Senate passed S. 358, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) [Thomas Resources], approving by unanimous consent an amended version of H.R. 493 [Thomas Resources], which passed the House April 25, 2007 by a vote of 420-3. The House...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 25, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Legislation in the News
