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With the backing of some top medical schools, a foundation is calling on physicians and scientists to help them build a huge online encyclopedia of medicine, called Medpedia. Today the Medpedia Foundation raised the curtain slightly on their Web site, giving prospective collaborators a peek.Wired Campus: Medical Version of Wikipedia, With Universities’ Help, Gets Ready [...]

13. Online learning. US schools are often bad. A lot of parents realize it, and would be interested in ways for their kids to learn more. Till recently, schools, like newspapers, had geographical monopolies. But the web changes that. How can you teach kids now that you can reach them through the web? The possible [...]

And that sounds right to me in the groups market. Charlie says the least common denominator in the groups market are these three functions: 1. A customizable site to call their own, even if it just has information as to what the group does and how to sign up. 2. A [...]

Charles R. Nesson, a professor at Harvard Law School, says the key for professors is to know when laptops are good for class and when they’re not.“Technologies are not good for everything,” says Mr. Nesson, who is also a founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. “Sometimes they destroy some good things along [...]

MySQL :: MySQL Enterprise for Amazon EC2Amazon EC2 is a web service that allows organizations to right size their computing capacity on demand using Amazon’s proven computing environment. Using MySQL Enterprise for Amazon EC2, developers can cost-effectively deliver web-scale database applications in the “cloud”, fully backed by the database experts at MySQL. Amazon EC2 and [...]

Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into our Search results, but not through separate indexes.This also means that we are winding down our digitization [...]

The editors of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation are about to embark on making revisions for the forthcoming Nineteenth Edition. Please take a few minutes to fill out their survey. Surveys must be received by June 30, 2008 in order to be considered for the Nineteenth Edition. Comments and suggestions are also welcome [...]

As for laptop use, shouldn’t this be a matter decided by law profs and their students on a class by class basis, even perhaps on a day by day basis? If so, law profs might want to read Kevin Yamamoto’s (South Texas College of Law) article, Banning Laptops in the Classroom: Is it Worth the [...]

Adobe AIRs out Linux, Joins Foundation Adobe Systems is making two strongly pro-Linux moves by releasing an alpha version of the Adobe Integrated Runtime for Linux and announcing its membership in the Linux Foundation. Adobe officials announced March 31 that the pre-release alpha version of Adobe AIR for Linux is available on Adobe [...]

As announced at public.resource.org, CC and public.resource.org have announced the first release of material to support our free law project. After raising a large chunk of change from great and generous sorts like David Boies, John Gilmore, the Omidyar Network and the Elbaz Foundation, we’ve purchased a database of a substantial part of all federal [...]

Georgetown University Law Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff has appointed Charles Pruett as assistant dean for financial aid. He succeeds Ruth Lammert-Reeves, who retired last year after twenty-eight years at Georgetown Law.Georgetown Law - Charles Pruett Appointed Assistant Dean for Financial Aid (Communications)Blogged with FlockTags: lawschool, dean

The finalists currently scheduled for campus visits are:Steven L. Willborn, dean and Richard C. and Catherine Stuart Schmoker professor of law, University of Nebraska. Campus interviews January 24 and 25. Public presentation 4 to 5 p.m., Friday, Jan. 25.Gregory Hicks, interim dean of the School of Law, University of Washington. Campus interviews January 30 and [...]

SANTA CLARA, CA January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun’s position in enterprise IT [...]

Top 2007 Education Apps: Learning 2.0 - an iternesting list.  Lots of stuff I didn’t know about.  Many worth looking into.  Be sure to chekc the comments for additions.Blogged with FlockTags: elearning2007

Announcement Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. The archive will be public domain and usable by anyone for any purpose.I’m pretty sure that [...]