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Austin Groothuis works for CALI (as do I), but he is also a 2L at Chicago-Kent College of Law. His blog has been attracting some positive attention (follow link and see the above graphic) and I realized that I was remiss in mot mentioning this myself after the appropriate disclosures. The blog is loosely aimed […]

Back in 2000, I was reserching content management systems for a legal aid website project I was working on and did some pretty heavy digging into ArsDigita’s ACS system. (that might be redundant as I believe the ‘S’ stands for system). Anyhow, this system was developed by Phillip Greenspun of "Phil and Alex’s Guide to […]

Need to get back into "law school mode"? Here are some podcasts that are up your alley. Elmer pointed me to the NPR-sponsored website for Justice Talking where they post MP3s of shows that are law-related. Recent programs posted include… Immigration Reform Collecting DNA from the Accused: Will it Help or Hurt Law Enforcement? The […]

The Inquirer had a story today about Rambus’ run-in with the Federal Trade Commission. "…THE US FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (FTC) is to file an antitrust case against Rambus Inc, a company which licenses its intellectual property to others.The basis of the case, according to commissioners, is that Rambus allegedly persuaded the JEDEC standards group to […]

The Inquirer has the PDF (no story yet) of the law suit filed by BlackBoard on July 26, 2006 (same day they got their patent) for patent infringement. So much for goodwill, it’s going to be war and Desire2Learn is the front line. This lawsuite has huge ramifications for the educational community – NOT just […]

Well, the clock is ticking for BlackBoard and whether they are going to come out with cease and desist letters blazing or do something intelligent that will endear them to the edu-blogosphere. By the way, here is the link to the actual patent on the USPTO website. Evidence of searches for prior art are starting […]

From Wikipedia, we learn… "…Goodwill is … an important accounting concept that describes the value of a business entity not directly attributable to its tangible assets and liabilities…" So Goodwill is something that a company wants to nurture, grow and be able to claim on its bottom line. Whengoodwill is negative, it’s a liability – […]

Jonathan Zittrain of the Berkman Center and also Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, Oxford University struck it rich recently. Rich in the sense that he got his latest article, "The Generative Internet" published on Groklaw where that large, voracious and didactic community tore into it in all sorts of interesting ways. I confess to […]

Back in the day when I was running a computer center at a lawschool, the months of July and August were some of the busiest monthsgetting things ready for the new batch of students. One ofthe things that I loaded onto our local area network was any tutorialor help document I could find that would […]

The front page of the CALI website has a place that randomly displays comments we get from law students. There is a place for students to submit new comments (link here) and there is also a link on every single CALI lessons that sends us an email right from within the lesson itself. Many of […]