Teknoids - Law School Innovation, v4, Caliopolis

Scholarship and Wilderness

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:25:51 -0500

Legal scholarship, at its best, is a creative endeavor. Even when the writing is largely technical, the best articles and books are based on big, strong, creative ideas. The best writers, of course, are those who have those ideas-- whose...

links for 2008-08-27

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:07:10 -0500

10 must-have Linux (and not only) cheat-sheets « a non-geek’s linux notes(tags: linux CLI help)

links for 2008-08-27

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:00:07 -0500

10 must-have Linux (and not only) cheat-sheets « a non-geek’s linux notes(tags: linux CLI help)

links for 2008-08-25

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:04:05 -0500

Filtering Drupal Views Dynamically (or, "Leverage the big CMS and web application frameworks! Only losers start from scratch!)" | aWebFactory(tags: tutorials panels modules drupal module cck howto filtering views)Nerd Vittles » Free Asterisk Calls to Zillions of Phones with ENUM and Gizmo5’s Backdoor Dialing(tags: asterisk SIP gizmo voip)

Shouldn't we just grade class participation rather than ban laptops?

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:11:48 -0500

Through this new post at his home blog, Eugene Volokh continues a thoughtful discussion of his new experimental one-laptop policy (details here). I found this account of his goals helpful and interesting: In my view, the main impetus for the...

What if a dean prohibited some faculty use of technology...?

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:37:45 -0500

My (half joking) questioning of Eugene Volokh's one-laptop experiment has generated some fun and some serious discussion in the posts and comments at The Volokh Conspiracy: Eugene Volokh, Collectivist? Libertarianism and Actions Within Institutions In the course of responding to...

links for 2008-08-22

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:03:55 -0500

Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data(tags: amazon AWS ec2 S3)Binary Codes: 10+ essential programs for the terminal junkie(tags: linux CLI terminal)

Experimenting with a one-child one-laptop policy

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:41:42 -0500

I am intrigued and a bit surprised by this post at The Volokh Conspiracy, titled "Experiment with a No-Laptop Policy for Class." Despite the title, it appears that Eugene Volokh will permit one laptop in his (upper-level?) class, but only...

links for 2008-08-20

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:02:04 -0500

EucalyptusEUCALYPTUS - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon's EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. EUCALYPTUS is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and [...]

links for 2008-08-19

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:01:07 -0500

SourceForge.net: SipTheeSkypeSIP to Skype Gateway/Bridge/Converter/Adapter. Make and receive SIP to Skype Calls and Skype to SIP Calls. Call Skype users using speed dial or use SkypeOut. Make SIP calls from Skype using a SIP provider or SIP PBX.(tags: SIP Skype asterisk Classcaster)freshmeat.net: Project details for Amahi Linux Home ServerThe Amahi Home Server is a Linux [...]

links for 2008-08-18

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:00:56 -0500

Linux.com :: Rocks clusters make sense for educational environments(tags: linux cluster virtualization)

Facebook and the law school prof

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:02:39 -0500

Today, on the addictive magical world of cocaine Facebook, I saw co-blogger Jim Chen welcome his incoming class of law students with a link to this article. Would love Jim or anyone else to weigh on how you use Facebook...

Real-world experiences with open access publishing

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:18:36 -0500

For anyone interested in open access law reviews, Gregory S. McNeal's experience with Northwestern Law Review is worth reading. Prof. McNeal (Dickinson School of Law, Penn State) needed to push an article out into the public before the topic was...

Does a Critical Remark About Opinions Expressed By a Commenter or Blogger On Another Blog Constitute Bullying?

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:45:33 -0500

Following up on Mark Osler's post, there are two issues: one is advance notification to commenters. The second, using trackbacks to give to bloggers a heads-up. Chime in and take our just launched polls at A Kierkegaardian Leap of Faith...

Blawging and scholarship

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:19:30 -0500

As already noted at Moneylaw and elsewhere, a broad discussion of internet interactions has broken out across the blawgosphere. Concerns about bullying, internet trolls, attribution, and other subjects have clearly developed along with the development of law blogs. Part of...