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Browsing On Sunday: Words, Social Media and the Courts, and SCT Opinions

30 Jan

Business Insider highlights the Google Ngram Viewer which searches the Google book database for frequency of words. The viewer can take multiple words and graph their usage between 1800 and 2000. It’s a good way to measure how terms for…

 
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Is Greater Scrutiny by the Media Leading to a Decline in Law School Applicants?

23 Jan

On Legal Skills Prof Blog, Jim Levy reported that According to a password protected report posted in the “law school” section at LSAC.org, both the number of applicants and applications to ABA accredited law schools for the fall 2012 term…

 
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Posted in Law School News & Views

 

"Julie of the Wolves" or Julie Eaten by the Wolves

10 Jan

HarperCollins is suing digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media for copyright infringement over the digital rights to Jean Craighead George’s Julie of the Wolves, a children’s book published in 1972 based on a 1971 contract with the author which gave…

 
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Posted in Litigation in the News

 

Shear Evaluates His 10 2011 Social Media Law Predictions

04 Jan

Unlike many folks who justmake annual predictions, Bradley Shear has actually assessed his 2011 predictions. On Shear on Social Media Law, see Part One and Part Two of his reality checking evaluation. He observes “[f]or 2011, 9 of my 10…

 
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Posted in Web Communications

 

Quelling Unrest by Way of Media Connectivity: From Egypt to the UK to AALL

21 Oct

Remember the outcry by government officials from Western democracies when the Mubarak regime shut down the Internet and moble cell phone networks in an attempt to silence communications which eventually led to the overthrow of his government? Didn’t work. In…

 
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Posted in Current Affairs, Library Associations, Web Communications

 

Friday Fun: Congress Passes the Pornographic Media Concealment Act

29 Jul

Congress Announces Plan To Hide Nation’s Porn From Future Generations

 
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Posted in Friday Fun

 

Social Media Demographics

23 Jul

Flowtown’s infographic on the demographics of the world’s most popular social media sites. Click to enlarge. [JH]

 
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Posted in Web Communications

 

Springer Launches SpringerReference.com of "Live eReference" Works for Academic and Corporate Libraries

23 Jun

From the press release: Springer Science+Business Media has launched SpringerReference.com, a new platform for researchers and academic and corporate libraries. It offers living editions of Springer’s eReferences well in advance of their print editions across every subject. Through the platform,…

 
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Posted in Electronic Resource, Products & Services, Publishing Industry

 

Gov 2.0: Guides for Social Media Tools

22 Jun

In How many social media tools does it take to change an agency? It depends, but the agency has to really want to change, Business of Government blog, John Bordeaux writes [S]ocial media tools, both inside and outside the firewall,…

 
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Posted in Electronic Resource, Information Technology

 
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