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A couple of weeks ago, I posted an article called "How Big is theBiggest Library:" that was riffing off of the Kevin Kelly NYTimesarticle "Scan This Book". In it, I estimated that the total size ofall data was about 39 petabytes which came close to Kelly’s estimate of50 petabytes. From a recent post at BarronsOnline… […]

This is the second in a series of podcast interviews with law faculty who participated in the Legal Education Podcasting Project. This interview was conducted on Friday, May 26. 2006 with Professor Willliam Gregory from Georgia State University School of Law. Professor Gregory recorded the classroom for his students (including extensive presentations by his students) […]

I recently finished reading Michael Madison’s pre-print article Legal Scholarship and the Economy of Prestige and it was very enlightening, but I had the thought that I have never seen a ranking of law faculty whereas I have seen law school rankings and read discussions, papers and diatribes in the hundreds. In all of the […]

I have been interviewing faculty for the past couple of days whowere involved in the Legal Education Podcasting Project and one of thequestions that I put to each of them is …. As technologyimproves to deliver even more high fidelity digital lectures – audioand video, do you think that this medium will come to replace […]

Update: I re-worked the recording in Audacity to remove as much of the static that crept into the recording. The podcast link below links to the new recording. This past spring semester, CALI conducted the Legal Education Podcasting Project where over 30 law faculty used podcasting in their courses. We conducted surveys of the students […]

The title of this post is taken from Jeff Jarvis’ post on Buzzmachine. It’s a great article and I wanted to do my characteristic read in relation to legal education. Let’s start with a clip… “…The problems with books are many: They are frozen in time without the means of being updated and corrected. They […]

The Program in Research in Information Technology of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites nominations for the 2006 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC). In support of the Program’s mission to encourage collaborative, open source software development within traditional Mellon constituencies, these awards—to be given for the first time in 2006—will recognize not-for-profit organizations that […]

Tim O’Reilly reports on some usage statistics by programmers who have the option of purchasing PDF, paper or both versions of new books being published by his press. He reports …. 60% choose PDF only, 36% choose PDF and paper version 4% choose paper only Mind you, this is after three months of their new […]

Clicking around my Bloglines feeds today and the following set of articles from Slashdot were displayed… The first is about streaming content from a home-grown media center running Linux to your cell phone. In other words, the cell phone as a delivery platform for all sorts of media. The second is about Google releasing an […]

Kevin Kelly’s New York Times Magazine article "Scan This Book" sure has stirred up a lot of comment in the blogosphere with worthy commentary at Teleread, Nick Carr (including excellent comments from Kevin Kelly himself) and a promise of future comment and the full text of the article at Sivacracy.net. Whenever I read articles about […]