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Karaoke at CALICon

A friend and karaoke fan who is not attending the AALL meeting has asked for a karaoke outing in San Diego, and I am only too happy to oblige. We'll try the Time Out Tavern at 634 Broadway on Friday night. Join us if you'd like!
Ken

Kenneth J. Hirsh
Director of the Law Library and Information Technology
Professor of Practice
Robert S. Marx Law Library
University of Cincinnati College of Law
ken.hirsh@uc.edu
(513) 556-0159

Submitted by hirshkh on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 11:42

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Job Posting - CIO UC Davis School of Law

Dear Friends,

After much deliberation I have decided to take another position here on campus and will be leaving the Law School. I have enjoyed being part of the Law School Technical Community and working with each of you over the years. This new position offers many new challenges and career growth for me, which is very exciting. I am still looking forward to CALI in June and hope to see many of you then.

I will be helping recruit a replacement and encourage anyone who is interested to apply.

Submitted by jebutler on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 15:55

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Any interest in doing a Linux installfest at CALIcon12?

Folks,
I was wondering if there was any interest in doing a Linux installfest
on Wednesday evening at CALIcon12? I'm thinking that we could use
VMWare's VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/) on whatever laptop
folks bring along to provide a host environment for one of the popular
Linux distros. Using VirtualBox would get around needing a dedicated
PC or having to do things like partition hard drives.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Elmer.

Submitted by emasters on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 10:14

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Bluesocket and Aruba or...

Fellow 'Noids,

We're looking at a move from Bluesocket to Aruba wireless, and I have a
few quick questions for anyone with any relevant experience.

1) If you are using Bluesocket, are you planning to or investigating a
move away from Bluesocket? If yes, why?

2) If you are moving, or have moved, from Bluesocket to another
solution, which one did you choose, and why?

3) If you have moved, or are moving, to Aruba Networks wireless, from
which solution did you move/are you moving, and why did you choose that
solution?

Submitted by callison on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 10:23

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Congratulations to John Joergensen; condolences to Tom Ryan

I'd like to congratulate TEKNOIDS own John Joergenson for being
appointed Director of the Law Library at Rutgers-Newark. At the same
time I express my condolences to Tom Ryan for losing his technology
partner. When the state approached Rutgers-Newark to host the New
Jersey Court Decisions, the administration turned them down. John and
Tom then got the ball and ran with it to put up all the New Jersey
appellate decisions.

Submitted by scperkins on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 09:12

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Everybody's Favorite Topic...

This is not a discussion about student printing. Well actually it IS about student printing, but it's not a discussion.

In light of the latest news from Westlaw-to the effect that we're entering the last year of free printing to their printers for students-there will likely be some interest in seeing whether or how law schools are responding with their own free printing policies. For that reason we're very interested in getting up-to-date policy information for the Richmond-hosted law school printing policy page (http://law.richmond.edu/people/initiatives/printsurvey.html).

Submitted by pbirch on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 08:51

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[CALIcon12 Sessions] Bridging the Gap: Technology Integration from a K-12 Perspective

Today's CALIcon12 Session of the Day is "Bridging the Gap: Technology
Integration from a K-12 Perspective" at http://cca.li/t.

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Presenter(s):
Vanessa Bravo, Pepperdine University School of Law

Consider these questions:
* What technologies are incoming law students exposed to during their
K-12 experience?

Submitted by emasters on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 09:00

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Interesting software to look at over the summer: Scrivener

Colleagues,

Sorry – I would normally put this on my twitter feed, but I thought that it might be of wider interest. Last week I ran across a program called Scrivener that's sort of a writer's binder or project management tool with a corkboard and word processor built in. Documents are built from snippets of text, which can be arbitrarily moved around and and re-arranged. Each snippet can have a corresponding "note card" that can have various meta-data regarding the snippet to which it is attached.

The product is available for Mac and Windows.

Submitted by ben.chapman on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 13:03

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Apache redirection question

All,

I have an...interesting...conundrum. We have a domain for one of our Law
Reviews, and they'd like to publish it in the upcoming edition. Right
now, that domain (ailr.net) is pointed at our main domain, so when you
go to www.ailr.net, you see our main site (www.law.ou.edu).

Submitted by callison on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 11:16

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Since everyone's awake this afternoon...

We're still looking for a sys admin. This is a rare opportunity to
come work for CALI and help us do the cool things we do. As a bonus,
you get to laugh at all the interesting things I've done with our
servers and patiently explain to me where it all could have gone
wrong.

Here's a bit of the description, found in full at http://cca.li/be :

"This position provides advanced linux systems administration for
Amazon/AWS cloud-based servers that host services for the Center for
Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI).

Submitted by emasters on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 14:30

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Another Notch In Bloomberg's Belt: Jones Day

Just got a press release from Jill Goodkind at Bloomberg announcing that Jones Day has brought them into the fold for their legal research needs.

Submitted by tekEditor on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 14:26

1 Geek Live

Since 3 Geeks is the forum for trying new things, I am going to try a live blog posting, as Toby speaks at the Business Intelligence for Law Firms Conference in New York. It is rare that a Geek and a Geek Groupie are in the same place at the same time, so I figure why not try something new. Bearing that in mind, I apologize in advance for any spelling errors, typos or grammatical mistakes.

Submitted by tekEditor on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 13:11

According to Facebook Math, We're Worth $250K!!

Sad that "Houston Dads Go

Submitted by tekEditor on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 08:35

Twitter Updates for 2012-05-17

xkcd: Felidae (The OS X Problem) http://t.co/xSGqQqsd #
#CALIcon12 Session of the Day: Building Online Courses and Course content – A technologist's approach http://t.co/hD67M6P4 @caliorg Submitted by elmer on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 00:00

Designating Systemically Important Financial Institutions: Balancing Costs and Benefits

Designating Systemically Important Financial Institutions: Balancing Costs and Benefits, Testimony before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and...

Submitted by tekEditor on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 18:03

Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies - 13th Annual Retirement

News release: "American workers, shaken by the realities of the Great Recession, have adjusted their visions of retirement according to...

Submitted by tekEditor on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 17:38

New GAO Reports: Foreign Account Reporting Requirements, Federal Housing Finance Agency

Foreign Account Reporting Requirements - IRS Needs to Further Develop Risk, Compliance, and Cost Plans, GAO-12-484, Apr 16, 2012 Management...

Submitted by tekEditor on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 17:37

Google Introduces Introducing the Knowledge Graph

Google Official Blog: "The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows aboutlandmarks, celebrities,...

Submitted by tekEditor on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 17:34

Creating a Disruptive Innovation - Disrupt Your Own Beliefs First

Image [cc] neonbubble

When reading a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article by James Allworth called "Empathy: The Most Valuable Thing They Teach at HBS," ther

Submitted by tekEditor on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 09:25

Treasury - How Refinancing Can Help Families

"Today, millions of Americans who are current on their mortgage payments cannot refinance at historically-low interest rates. The President is...

Submitted by tekEditor on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 00:48

EPA Flow Chart - Cheat Sheet for Agency Twitter Responses

Should I Respond Online On EPAs Behalf? - Questions to guide my decision Use with Representing EPA Online Using...

Submitted by tekEditor on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 00:42

A Future Without Key Social and Economic Statistics for the Country

United States Census Directors Blog: "Our country faces important Federal funding challenges linked to the current recession and its aftermath....

Submitted by tekEditor on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 00:40

Airport Insecurity: TSAs Failure to Cost-Effectively Procure, Deploy and Warehouse its Screening Technologies

Airport Insecurity: TSAs Failure to Cost-Effectively Procure, Deploy and Warehouse its Screening Technologies - Joint Majority Staff Report, 112th Congress...

Submitted by tekEditor on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 00:18

New - Find facts and do research inside Google Documents

Google Docs Blog: "Today were introducing the research panea new feature that brings the webs wealth of information to you...

Submitted by tekEditor on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 00:14

Twitter Updates for 2012-05-16

@trbruce yo, T, that metasausage article you just posted is all 404. Do let us know when it gets found.

Submitted by elmer on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 00:00

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