Sunday Evening Posts

Our neighbors, who recently moved here from Hawaii, are obviously going to be the cool neighbors on the block. No pun intended.

So, I’m moving my “Saturday Evening Posts” to Sundays. The name isn’t as catchy but the timing is better for me.

The list of things I starred this week on Twitter and in my RSS feed was long this week, you guys. I actually had to cull quite a bit, because you all deserve only the best of the best.

• Red Cross Pet First Aid Provides Emergency Info, Stores Pet Profiles, Lifehacker

Android/iOS: The American Red Cross has already released an app with information on what to do in emergencies for people. The Pet First Aid app fills the same need for any pet-related emergencies you might have.

In addition to providing basic emergency info for things like bite wounds, poison, or choking, it also allows you to store a variety of helpful information about each of your pets. You can add your veterinarian’s contact info as well as entries for each pet’s name, age, tag IDs, medication info and more. While hopefully you won’t need to use the app very often, if you have pets it may be worth keeping it on your phone.

• Integrate the Pantone Color of the Year, Radiant Orchid, into… , Stash Tea Blog

Integrate the Pantone Color of the Year, Radiant Orchid, into your tea cupboard this year! Its bold hue intrigues the eye and sparks the imagination! Cheers!

I don’t usually include the images from the posts, but this is so pretty! I kind of want to do my office in this hue now.

• Why Law Schools Need to Incorporate More Online Technologies into Teaching, Best Practices for Legal Education

Few in the legal academy are looking into how we can use technology to reconceptualize our own overall approach to teaching. If we embrace online technologies now, we will begin to develop expertise within the legal academy about how to best use newer technologies for legal education.

• Being Negative is Safe, Pegasus Librarian

It struck me recently that those people who fixate on the flaws in every plan are in safe territory all the time. There are no perfect plans. There are no perfect interfaces. So these people will be right every single time — there are ALWAYS flaws. But you can’t actually live like that …

• GymPact, The App That Pays You For Working Out, Relaunches As Pact With New Diet Features, TechCrunch

GymPact, the app that makes you pay–literally–if you don’t meet your exercise goals, has a new name, Pact, and two new diet-oriented features for the New Year.

Wait, wait, wait – I was all excited for a minute. Does it pay you for working out, or does it make you pay if you don’t reach your goals? Because one of these things is much more inciting than the other.

• Here Be Dragons, SarahGlassmeyer(dot)com

So here we are in our own Age of Discovery, although perhaps “Age of Disruption” or “Age of Disintermediation” or even “Age of Innovation” would be a better term. In law, libraries and higher education, we know there are new areas soon to be available to us but no one knows exactly what form they will take. The best guesses are roughly in the shape of dragons, sea monsters and giants.
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As anyone liberally educated knows, the Age of Discovery is a bit of a misnomer. It’s hard to describe arriving at a piece of land as a “discovery” when there are already hundreds of thousands of indigenous people with fully formed cultures and societies already living there and that have been for thousands of years. One of the best path towards the future is going to be by learning from other professions that have gone through their own disruptive periods.

Speaking of, I’ve also started to really dislike the words “innovation” and “disruption” lately. We honor “innovators” and the highest honor one we can give to a company or service is to call it “disruptive.” The impression is that only the most special of special snowflakes are capable of invoking change and that we only need to change when the environment demands it.

Seriously, people. Stop quoting Susskind. Stop comparing your online education efforts to Coursera. You will never be Amazon.com .

The truth is that professions and organizations (and organisms) are always changing and evolving. You don’t need to wait until the bottom drops out or some other major cataclysmic event occurs before you decide to change. Dinosaur were wiped out by a giant meteor, true, but there were several thousands of changes that happened before and after that event and not all as a result of something bad. Find your strength and capitalize on it instead of waiting for things to stop working.

I will probably never not link to Sarah Glassmeyer’s blog. She always has something interesting to say about things close to my heart. Being an academic law librarian right now is to be a part of three institutions that are currently undergoing tumultuous change, and it’s hard not to constantly be reacting to stuff, rather than consciously trying to be proactive in seriously considering the best way to do one’s job – or to improve it.

I’ve also been participating this week in WordPress’s “Zero to Hero” better-your-blog thingy, but much of that involves behind-the-scenes stuff (following others’ blogs, thinking long and hard about your blog’s name (nope, not changin’ it), etc.), so I don’t have much to report on that front. Just wanted to explain the badge that I stuck up there on the top right. If my blog suddenly gains massive amounts of followers, or is linked to on a listicle or something, you’ll know why.

‘Til next week!

Saturday Evening Posts – the last of 2013

Not a lot goin’ on this week. But there were some notables:

• The Year We Broke the Internet, Esquire

These all had one thing in common: They seemed too tidily packaged, too neat, “too good to check,” as they used to say, to actually be true. Any number of reporters or editors at any of the hundreds of sites that posted these Platonic ideals of shareability could’ve told you that they smelled, but in the ongoing decimation of the publishing industry, fact-checking has been outsourced to the readers. Not surprisingly—as we saw with the erroneous Reddit-spawned witch-hunt around the Boston Marathon bombing—readers are terrible at fact-checking. And this, as it happens, is good for business because it means more shares, more clicks.

This is not a glitch in the system. It is the system. Readers are gullible, the media is feckless, garbage is circulated around, and everyone goes to bed happy and fed.

Fascinating. Infuriating.

• This nifty database shows how apps suck up your data plan, GigaOm

Do you know how much apps can drain on your phone? This website will help you find out.

• Most Popular Firefox Extensions and Posts of 2013, Lifehacker

Firefox may not get quite as much love as it’s Google-y rival, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t get plenty of love in 2013. With plenty of add-ons and tricks to stay productive, keep your privacy, and customize your browser, here’s the best coverage of Firefox from the past year.

This year, Firefox received no less enthusiastic attention from its fanbase. This year, we learned how to use Adblock to fix YouTube’s biggest annoyances, erase your most embarrassing autocomplete suggestions, and how to manage more than nine tabs without ruining your browsing experience.

• Law Libraries are Doomed, Says Professor, WSJ Law Blog

As law schools are forced to tighten their belts, law libraries are getting squeezed especially hard. The future of the law library isn’t merely bleak, according to law professor James G. Milles. He thinks they’re doomed.

Because I love scaring myself during break that I’ll be out of a job before break’s over.

• Best apps for your new Mac, The Verge

Whether you’re among the chosen to get a new computer for the holidays or are burdened with the responsibility of playing family tech support, we’ve got you covered with an essential pack of Mac apps, utilities, tools, and time-wasters. Grab another moose-shaped mug of eggnog and start downloading.

I received a new iMac for my birthday (in August) that I just picked out a week ago. I love it, and am always on the hunt for good apps. I edited the image above in a free Mac photo editing app, Fotor (not sure I want to shell out $80 for Aperture, definitely sure I don’t want to shell out any more than that for the others, especially when I really just want a bunch of filters and borders). If anybody has any recommendations, let me know!

• The 50 Best Autocorrects of 2013, DYAC

These are really funny. More often than not crude, and sometimes NSFW, but very funny.

Hope you all had warm, happy, safe, and cozy holidays!

Solstice Evening Posts

Happy Solstice, everyone! Are you as ready as I am for the days to get longer again? Well, it’s still going to be a while, so you might as well get caught up on blog posts from my RSS reader:
 

• “Eco-Leather” Made From Plant Oils is a Fashion Game-Changer, Ecouterre

Tanning leather is a toxic endeavor and also quite fatal for animals, but a new alternative bio-based leather promises to be more environmentally friendly. Richard Wool, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware has been working on an eco-leather alternative made from natural fibers and oils. Flax or cotton is […]

I am pretty excited about this; I hope it really is environmentally-friendly as well as cruelty-free. And would durable be too much to ask? I totally do the non-leather shoe thing (and purses and stuff, but that’s not as big of a deal), but they aren’t as high quality (on the other hand, they aren’t as expensive, either, so I can afford more of them).

• New on SSRN: Legal Education in Crisis, and Why Law Libraries are Doomed, Out of the Jungle

The dual crises facing legal education—the economic crisis affecting both the job market and the pool of law school applicants, and the crisis of confidence in the ability of law schools and the ABA accreditation process to meet the needs of lawyers or society at large—have undermined the case for not only the autonomy, but the very existence, of law school libraries as we have known them.

Oh, well, this isn’t depressing at all!

• The care and feeding (and shunning) of vampires, Seth Godin’s Blog on marketing, tribes and respect

Vampires, of course, feed on something that we desperately need but also can’t imagine being a source of food. You have metaphorical vampires in your life. These are people that feed on negativity, on shooting down ideas and most of…

I guess I wasn’t the only one struck by Seth’s post:

• Keep Calm and Carry Garlic, 3 Geeks and a Law Blog

This is the time of year when we reflect on all that has happened over the past 12 months; the successes, the failures, the moments of epiphany, the stumbles, the growth and change, basically everything that makes us human. That is why I was so struck by the timing and subject of Seth Godin’s recent post about vampires (and he’s not talking about Team Edward or reviewing the latest True Blood episode). Seth explains that these metaphorical vampires are “people that feed on negativity, on shooting down ideas and most of all, on extinguishing your desire to make things better.” What is so striking to me is that Seth says that these vampires cannot be cured; they cannot be shown the error of their ways. Trying to change their minds and get them on board is a waste of time. Seth explains that all we can do for these people is pity them.

• Do.ne, or what to do when your favorite service disappears?, Law School Ed Tech

… So we added Do.com to our list of services which have closed this year. Services like Xtranormal and Google Reader, just to name a couple.

So what do you do when your favorite web service shuts down? There are four basic steps that can help.

• Give Open a Chance in Law, SarahGlassmeyer(dot)com

Imagine, if you will, a Venn Diagram. One circle is the unholy mess that is the current state of legal education.  One is the systematic failures surrounding issues of Access to Justice.  And the third circle is the Reinvent/Innovate/New Law world of individuals attempting to make the practice of law more efficient using technological solutions.

Saturday Evening Posts

Seeing if this clickbait works as well as the last one.

I starred a lot of things in my reader this week. Hopefully you will find some of them interesting!

• Beatles bootlegs headed to iTunes next week, The Verge

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• Relaxed will automatically reply to social media so you can take an online break this holiday, Gigaom

Relaxed can connect to your Facebook or Twitter accounts and automatically send out to replies to let people know you are taking a break from social media.

I think, maybe, if you need this app, you might have a bigger problem. But, on the other hand, if you need this app, I’m glad it exists for you!

• George Bluth Senior’s Corn Ballers, Minus the 3rd-Degree Burns (I Hope), HelloGiggles

Another amazing recurring bit in the Arrested canon is the Cornballer, George Sr.’s popular but really dangerous invention. The Cornballer, of course, made Cornballs, likely delicious fried treats (probably spelled with a ‘z’ like treatz), but it also severely burned its users.

Totally want to make these.

• The DeskCycle Is a Space-Saving Exercise Bike that Fits Under the Desk, Lifehacker

If you want to get a little activity while you sit at your desk or your computer, the DeskCycle may be a good fit for you. It’s a tiny stationary bike that’s essentially just the pedals, small enough to slide under your desk at work or at home so you get some pedaling in while you work, chat, or play video games.

Where our beloved FitDesk is a full standing exercise bike, the DeskCycle does away with the seat and handlebars, and instead acts a bit like a recumbent bike. You sit in your desk chair, and you continue to use your computer normally, you’re just pedaling under your desk. When we say the DeskCycle is small, we mean it—it’s only about 20 inches across, 24 inches long, and the tallest pedal height is 10 inches. That means if you have two feet square under your desk, you can fit this thing under it and use it without issue.

Going to measure my desk in my office first thing next time I go in. I kind of want this.

• New Pew Report on the Value of Public Libraries in Communities, Librarian by Day

This morning Pew Internet & American Life released its latest report on libraries in the digital age. “How Americans Value Public Libraries in Their Communities” reports on the value of libraries services to their community.

People who answer these studies always seem to say they value their libraries, but does it ever have an effect on what happens to public libraries?

• Victoria’s Secret Debuts 3D-Printed Lingerie at Annual Fashion Show, Ecouterre

I admit that I don’t understand how 3-D printing works, but are people clamoring for the ability to print lingerie?

• Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: Data and Privacy, Hack Education

Part 7 of my Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2013 series

This is the third year in a row that I’ve chosen “data” as one of the “top trends” in ed-tech. (See 2011, 2012) If you’re looking for a sunnier view of data in education, read those. 2013, in my opinion, was pretty grim.

• Disneyfication, Power Women and the Problem of Flattening Personality, Out of the Jungle

The idea being explored is worth revisiting every single gift-giving season. Little girls are confronted by strong messages about beauty and body image conformity very early. They are pushed into sexy images early as well. It’s not just Barbie and Bratz with totally unrealistic body dimensions. The Disney princesses, even re-worked for modern theories of empowered women are still worth discussing with little girls. Do you have to have a dainty little nose to be a princess? Do you have to be thin? Do you have to have little feet and elegant hands? How about whether you have to have swishy smooth lush shiny hair that swoops back and forth around you? Do you have to have big eyes with long lashes? What if your mouth isn’t small in a cute, pointy chin, with pouty lips? What if, maybe you aren’t a classic beauty? Does beauty mean you are good? Does good mean you are beautiful? These two things are sort of mixed up together in the Disney princesses, and in way too much of our little kid toy, AV and illustrated material.

This isn’t what the blog author is talking about so much here, but have you seen the imagined girl-appealing portraits of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Anne Frank, Harriet Tubman, et al that she starts this post with? I think it’s important to introduce children to these figures as role models in lieu of the Disney princesses, of course, but the drawings of the figures make them look like … Disney princesses. Which, of course, is part of the point – get girls interested in them. But they’ve got the waspy waists, giant eyes, low-cut gowns, etc. I think the sparkly clothes and “fairy-like” aspects could be kept – thus raising interest in girls – without making them have the same physical characteristics that we complain about with the Disney princesses (and Bratz dolls, etc., of course).

• A Call for Contributions: Help Take Legal Research Instruction to the Next Level, RIPS Law Librarian Blog

Do you have a great lesson plan or assignment that you’d be willing to share?  How about handouts or PowerPoint slides?  If so, then we need your help! The RIPS Teach-In Kit Committee is currently accepting submissions for the 2014 Teach-In Kit.  The Teach-In Kit is […]

Once our hybrid internet legal research class is all polished and shiny, I’m thinking of contributing to this.

Saturday Evening Posts

This image has nothing to do with this post. It is pure clickbait.

• Homemade Irish Cream, Gossip Girl, and Free Labels!, Hello Giggles

Confession time: I’ve been binge watching Gossip Girl on Netflix (Canadian Netflix is years behind the times, we only just got it),…

The “homemade irish cream” thing is the only part of this post I’m interested in.

• The Behavior of Finding Information, Educause

Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Donna M. Lanclos, and Erin M. Hood, in conversation with Beth Forrest Warner, share insights into a three-year U.S.-U.K. collaborative study project that identifies how students and faculty engage with technology and information sources.

• Most Popular Photography Tips, Tricks, and Hacks of 2013, Lifehacker

This was a great year for all things photography, with posts to help you behind the camera, in front of it, when you’re shooting, and when you’re editing. Here’s a look back at our most popular photography tips, tricks, and hacks of 2013.

• Take Out Fake Out: Homemade Naan Bread, Hello Giggles

Have I ever told you about my love for bread? Probably not. Most people think I am all about the sweets since…

My love of Naan is overshadowed only by my love of Irish Cream.

• Boolean Strings, Semantic and Natural Language Search – Oh My!, Boolean Black Belt

I’m going to take the opportunity to address the points Matt raised – not because I am trying to stay “relevant,” as some might suggest (my blog is a not-for-profit personal passion and I don’t consult/train for a fee), and also not because I have a vested interest in “keeping Boolean search alive” (because I really don’t) – rather, because I am still amazed that a fundamental lack of understanding of search and information retrieval – both “manual” Boolean search and “automated” taxonomy driven and/or AI-powered semantic search – and I am constantly trying to help people not only understand both, but also appreciate their intrinsic limitations, as well as separate reality from hype.

• Ember Organizes All Your Digital Junk, Lifehacker

iOS: Keeping track of all the junk you find online is never an easy task. To help you organize that stuff, Ember is an app that fits somewhere between Pinterest and Evernote, and manages to keep things simple enough that anyone can use it.

Ember works a lot like Evernote’s Web Clipper where you can quickly and easily add a picture to a collection. From there, you can add notes, create different collections, and more. The iOS version of the app is basically a simple organization app, whereas the (pricey, at $50) Mac app is a bit more feature-packed. Even still, as a simple and fast place to collect images, Ember works really well on iOS and you don’t need to use the Mac app to appreciate it.

Oh, my gosh, how I need someone to organize all my digital junk. And, while we’re at it, how ’bout my physical junk?

• Open Thread: Making Law Schools Better, The Faculty Lounge

OK – don’t shoot me for the wording of the title of this post. We can all argue about what “better” means. I opened this thread in response to comments in a previous thread expressing concerns about what today’s students…

For those of you looking for gifts for the tea lovers among you:

• The Temperfect Mug: Coffee and Tea at The Perfect Temp by dean verhoeven

This [Kickstarter] project was born of my frustration with not being able to drink my carefully-brewed, but too hot, coffee right after I made it, and it then getting cold before I had time to enjoy it. I wanted it just right.

I thought about this problem and had an inspiration: why not take the excess heat out of the too-hot coffee, store it in the wall of the mug, and then use it later to keep the coffee at a pleasant drinking temperature?

This actually sounds really cool, and I may be persuaded to fund it.

• Item of the Day: Teatube Test Tube Tea Infuser, Hello Giggles

There’s something wonderful about curling up with a warm cup of tea on a freezing cold night. I’m partial to mint myself,..

This is just pretty cute. Especially if you know a scientist-type who loves tea.

Saturday Evening Posts

• 7 stories to read this weekend, Gigaom

Selfies, Selfies and more selfies: so much so it is the word of the year and in order to celebrate and understand the concept of selfie, I decided to curate seven of the best pieces I have read around selfies.

• Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: The Politics of Education/Technology, Hack Education

Part 2 of my Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2013 series

I’m not going to summarize all the education-related political developments from 2013. Pardon me while I skip over the Department of Education’s No Child Left Behind waivers; the impact of sequestration and the federal government shutdown of education programs; the Supreme Court’s Fisher v Texas decision; (failed) education in Tennessee to tie a family’s welfare benefits to children’s grades; “the missing Michelle Rhee” memo; Senator Alexander’s attempts to let Congress, and not peer review, decide who gets NSF money; court cases against administrators in Tennessee and Georgia involved in test-cheating scandals; the hiring of former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to head the University of California system; the end of Mayor Bloomberg’s tenure in NYC (and as promised by newly elected Mayor Bill De Blasio, an end to many of Bloomberg’s edu policies); and the publication of Ron Paul’s book on education. Might I recommend instead POLITICO’s new education vertical, which launched this year – particularly its morning email that summarizes all your daily (US) politics-and-education news. (Or on second thought…)

• Opening the Doors, RIPS Law Librarian Blog

When information is digital, it is nothing but strings of 1s and 0s. Unlike printed text or analog recordings, those 1s and 0s can be rendered in many different ways without changing the underlying information. This flexibility has the potential to throw the doors of disability wide open, letting in those who cannot see or […]

• Twice Brings Its Secondhand Clothing Marketplace To iPad, TechCrunch

Online consignment shop for women’s clothing, Twice, has made the move to mobile, starting first with a dedicated app for iPad, out now. The company, founded in 2012 and backed by $4.6 million in outside funding, was already seeing over half its emails opened on iPad, indicating a need to better address users on this platform with a native experience. Now that the app is live, the company expects it will drive around 25% of all revenue post-launch.

• Is He a Mind Reader? No, He’s Just Reading Your Instagram Posts, 3 Geeks and a Law Blog

I know that we’ve talked for years about the amount of information that people give out freely via social media platforms, but I haven’t seen any video that’s better than Jack Vale’s Social Experiment in showing strangers how much he can know about them just by reviewing their social media posts.

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My favorite part of the video comes around the 3:15 mark where one of the ‘pranked’ victims says “Thanks for invading my privacy.” I don’t think he understands what privacy means. He’s not alone.

• Google Scholar Launches “Library” Feature, Slaw

Yesterday Google Scholar Blog announced the launch of Google Scholar Library, a feature that allows a user to:

. . . save articles right from the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar’s full-text search to quickly find just the one you want – at any time and from anywhere . . .

You’re able to use “labels” to organize the material you’ve saved to your library.

A user must log in to Google and via this link activate the Library feature.

• Online Legal Research Instruction – Is It The Wave Of The Future?, RIPS Law Librarian Blog

In keeping with the theme of the evolving role of the law librarian, it may be time for law librarians to start thinking about online legal research instruction. Currently, Standard 306 of the ABA Standards for Approval of Law Schools allows for no more than a total of 12 credit hours in online or distance […]

• What Legal Consumers Want, Slaw

Legal Futures this week posted on the results of the third annual survey of what clients want from their legal service provider, conducted by legal technology service provider Peppermint Technology in the United Kingdom.

The post included two points that caught my eye. First, the survey found that clients are concerned about whether their legal advisor is able to provide online accessibility:

“There is now a significant body of businesspeople for whom online access has become a necessity of their working life,” the report said. “If their legal advisers are not perceived to be up to speed with this development,

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For anybody interested, my luggage is safe and sound and with me, after some undoubtedly exciting adventures in Atlanta.

Saturday Evening Posts

In case you missed it this week …

• Tools for Flipping the Classroom?
  We have several teachers using the flipped classroom method and I was wondering what tools other people were using for the same thing?A couple of our teachers are using Camtasia and Mimio Studio along with a Mimio Pad to create the video lessons. We have another that uses the whiteboard in her classroom along with an HD webcam. All of them use Edmodo as a place for students to look for new content.

• Digital Lawyer Legal Ed Project
  I’m heading down to Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida next week to record sessions for the courses I will be co-teaching for the Center for Law Practice Technology. I’ll be teaching the core course in law practice management with Richard Granat, teaching a social media for lawyers course by myself and assisting Will Hornsby in his course on Ethics of Practicing Law in a Digital World. We will be adding more courses as the project gets underway.

• Ding Dong Is A Fun App Which Lets You Share Your Location And Mood With Close Friends
  Social mobile location apps were all the rage a couple of years ago but few seemed to take off, unless of course like Grindr and Tinder they scratched that hookup itch. A more general, friendly ‘SoLoMo’ has been wanting, other than perhaps Foursquare. Step in Ding Dong, a new app which makes the whole process of sharing your location more fun and, crucially, more private. Today the new redesigned Ding Dong hits the App Store. And it’s addictive.

• Social Media and Law Schools (an introduction)
  Want an introduction to social media?  Earlier this week, my colleague, Andrew Brandt, and I held a faculty workshop for our colleagues at Villanova Law about using social media to build our community and showcase our ideas. Here is a link to the powerpoint we created for the talk (although did not use). http://www.slideshare.net/MichelePistone […]

• How I Learned to Stop Nagging My Kids and Start Motivating ThemI bet you’ve come across the term “positive reinforcement” before–but honestly, do you know what it really means? Some time back, I decided to jump onto the positive reinforcement bandwagon. Except, it wasn’t really clear to me what it is I should be doing. The worst part? The more I read about it, the more confused I got.This article is the result of trying to sort through some of the confusion so we can be masters of applying positive reinforcement to raise terrific, internally motivated kids.

• How To Take Awesome Smartphone Photos

  The line between photography and “photography” is long gone. But just because everybody else is doing it doesn’t mean you can’t still make your mobile photos stand out from the stream.

  While you might not be inhaling darkroom chemicals like our non-digital forebears, the craft of mobile photography is an art unto itself—and it can be taken to the next level.  Even traditional DSLR and film photographers might have a thing or two to learn in the transition.

• Law Librarians Adapting to Changing Users
  Although we have long incorporated elements of teaching into our “toolkit” of skills as librarians, there is an increasing trend of academic law librarians having formal teaching duties inside traditional classrooms. In today’s rapidly changing information environment remaining relevant means librarians must understand our role (and ourselves) as […]

• Farewell, Thomas.gov. Hello, Congress.gov.

  On November 19th, Thomas.gov, the venerable website of the United States Congress, will begin to redirect visitors to Congress.gov. The new site, which launched in beta in September 2012, will become the primary governmental resource for the text of legislation, past, present and future, along with reports from committees, speeches from the floor of Congress and cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.

• It’s the Pedagogy, Stupid.
  Criticizing law schools and legal education is easy.  The curriculum, the expense, the fudged employment numbers, the value of legal scholarship, administrative bloat, the U.S. News ratings – there’s more low hanging fruit here than a U-PICK orchard.   However, there’s a major item often missing from these lists.