Copyright Propaganda, Facebook Spying, and Lawbrarians

Copyright “education” (Propaganda?) for K-12?
Go ogle FastFlip — What is it? (We don’t really know.) Does it have a purpose? (None that we can figure out.)
Linking is a defense to defamation — at least in Canada
BarBri takes LG’s advice and adds some great new features to the iPhone BarBri app. We also discuss their announcement that a “hardcore” BarBri iPhone app is forthcoming for BarBri subscribers

People Smarter Than Us

We feature law librarians this week as people generally smarter than us. We share some stories about how this awesome class of people has helped us in our everyday law lives, and why you should befriend your local “lawbrarians.”

You’re Doing It Wrong

Florida Bar to Start Reviewing Facebook Accounts as Part of the Character & Fitness Inquiry

Love For Our Geeks

Here are the questions we discuss this week:

Are study groups a good idea?
How long does it take to read more than 10 pages in an hour
Am I the only 1L alive who isn’t doing extracirriculars?

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Daniel said:

I’d like to put my 2 cents to the “only 1L not doing extracurriculars” comment. I’m a 2L and my activities this semester are: catching up on comics I missed this summer, planned a salmon fishing trip on lake michigan, started a rock band (with real instruments, xbox is for call of duty), and of course, keeping up on the blogroll.

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Joshua Auriemma Reply:
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:29 pm

@Daniel, well done, sir. I’d rather hang out with someone with a solid comic collection than a board position in a legal frat.

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- 23 September 2009 at 6:07 pm

Twitter is valuable: a few examples | Laura Bergus said:

[...] @hmorrell) immediately jumped to my rescue on Twitter. That led to a conversation about my love for law librarians (more on that in the recent Legal Geekery podcast, episode 2), and accolades for one of my school’s key librarians, who I then emailed and encouraged to [...]

- 26 September 2009 at 2:21 pm

HO said:

I’d like to put my 2 cents to the “only 1L not doing extracurriculars” comment. I’m a 2L and my activities this semester are: catching up on comics I missed this summer, planned a salmon fishing trip on lake michigan, started a rock band (with real instruments, xbox is for call of duty), and of course, keeping up on the blogroll.

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- 5 October 2009 at 2:04 pm