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We recently did a soft launch of www.freereporter.org. The Free Law Reporter™ (FLR) is an experiment that builds onCarl Malamud’s Report of Current Opinions (RECOP).(more info about RECOP fromJustia,Robert Ambrogi and Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase). The RECOP bulk feed can be found at http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/recop/. The goal of FLR is to develop a freely available, […]

I recently cleaned up my office and decided to organize a huge pile of name tags that I had received from various events, conferences, workshops, reunions and such.  The earliest one is from 1995, so this represents 16 years of name tags.

I have long believed that the issue of banning laptops in the classroom is not the real issue, it is instead an indicator of student attention/distraction. The premise of the argument to ban laptops can be boiled down to… “If you provide a distraction free environment, students can learn more”. Plenty of room to argue […]

Here is my test podcast. Click to listen or right-click to download – JustATest4Podcasting.mp3

One of the cool things about having a commons that contains public domain versions of case law is that it invites experimentation. I ran across this nifty toy the other day called Wordle (www.wordle.net) that let me create the above graphic. I grabbed a random Supreme Court case from CALI’s Legal Education Commons (www.cali.org/lec or […]

Here is the link to a screencast of my presentation at AALS on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 in San Diego. I was participating in the "Redesigning Legal Education" session. I had 15 minutes to cover a lot of ground, so I apologize for my fast-talking. Here is the Powerpoint file… 2009AALSClassroomTechnology.ppt Here is an MP3 […]

The picture does not capture the participants – unfortunately, no one took pics at this year’s Christmas gathering. Some may say this it is better that no pictures were taken if you listen to the singing in the podcast. Just saying… Here is the podcast … MayerFamily12days2008.mp3 Click to play or right-click to download.

I am back to blogging. I had to take some time off to recover from quintuple bypass surgery. Let this be a reminder to get your cholesterol checked – mine was over 330 last April – now it’s around 150 thankyouverymuch. I’ve been back to work for quite some time now (since May), but I […]

"Please Pay Attention" is the working title of the new podcast series. We would love to get suggestions from listeners to name this podcast. Elmer Masters and I talk about legal education-related IT topics several times a week and we have threatened in the past to turn some of those conversations into podcasts because we […]

We have a theme!!! "Transforming Legal Educaction" is the theme for the 2008 Conference for Law School Computing. We’ll be posting links for registration and putting out a call for speakers soon. All of these links will be here.