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Short Takes On The News: Some Tech, Some Scandal And Outrage, And Some Law

11 Nov

CNET has a positive review of a new reader for Google Books that is not from Google. Called GooReader, the product is described as “is a desktop application that allows you to read Google Books online and offline, add Bookmarks,…

 

Friday Fun: Lego Law for Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad

21 Oct

Got to love law student creativity. Product of utter boredom? [JH]

 
 

Regulating the Unseen Search Engine Algorithm

11 Oct

Reg Chua ponders how public policy can address questions about fair play when a web search company embeds algorithms and personalization into its core product. In Regulating The Algorithm?: How can you regulate what you can’t see [i.e. the algorithm]?…

 

The "Product Intrigue" Boogie for Lexis Advance

04 Oct

Lexis Advance for Solos has been available for some time now and the Company is starting to advertise it on legal media sites like the National Law Journal. So I clicked on an ad link and was sent here. Damnit…

 

First Thoughts On The Kindle Fire

28 Sep

Pundits are calling Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet a serious contender to the Apple iPad. I agree that it is a contender, but not because it matches the amenities that Apple offers in their product. The basics of the Kindle…

 

Vote for the Best and Worst Law Product Mergers

09 Sep

Jean O’Grady has launched a poll for law librarians (and others) to assess the consequences of the legal publishing industry consolidation for once independently owned but now “brand” products of Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer. Jean writes I…

 

Legal Information Institute and CALI Partner to Publish Free eBooks

06 Sep

So, it looks like my first post on Law Librarian Blog since I started working for a publisher/vendor/partner in legal information is going to be….to promote one of our products. Awkward. But it’s a FREE product! Does that help? I…

 

Will ePUB3 Lead to the Enhanced eBook?

23 Aug

The enhanced eBook, by which I mean an interactive product that seemlessly integrates embedded audio, video and applications related to content contextually, will make current eBook offerings obsolute at least with respect to professional and educational eBook literature. ePub has…

 

Documenting the Drafting Process for the Declaration of Independence

04 Jul

Many but probably not most folks know that the Declaration of Independence was not written by Thomas Jefferson. The drafting process may have started at Jefferson’s portable writing desk in Philadelphia but it quickly moved to becoming a product of…