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Episode 12: Kagan’s nomination, a new 3rd Circuit judge, Black’s Law App, and more
Josh and his electronic evidence pals got the best seats in the house at a 3rd Circuit investiture. Laura admits she is completely out of touch with mainstream media. Loyal listener @sakuha provides the skinny on the Library of Congress’ plan to archive tweets.
Introduction
- Find out what Josh’s pink card meant at Judge Vanaskie’s 3d Cir investiture.
- Where were you when you found out about Kagan’s nomination?
- Funny story about Chrometa [note they give free licences to full time students!] contacting Lawhackr.
- Josh is gradumawaiting!!!!! *If* he passes tax, anyway.
- Laura brags about her obscene grade in Admin Law (not like Miller obscene, but pretty close), and her now-totally-official-as-in-her-name-is-on-the-website social media policy consulting job.
In the News
- Josh is reviewing the Black’s Law iPad app, which is everything he ever wanted out of the hardbound Black’s, but more backlit
- Lots of on- and off-topic discussion of Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination.
- Speaking of mainstream media, did you hear about that Florida legislator looking at pr0n on his computer during a hearing about abortion? This is what passes for law-related news, folks.
People Smarter than Us
- LII <3s us (and said so on the LII Facebook page)! And we <3 them!
Love for Our Geeks
- Our man @sakuha has mad connections at the Library of Congress, and sent us this about the plan to archive all tweets:
LC already has tons of resources, titles, databases, etc. that are stored [exclusively] in digital format. Perhaps future researchers will be able to search the archive, maybe using the various “fields” of a tweet — see this “map” of a tweet…More details from LC’s press release; it looks like the whole thing won’t be posted online (emphasis below is mine).
The archive follows in the Library’s long tradition of gathering individuals’ firsthand accounts of history, such as “man on the street” interviews after Pearl Harbor; the September 11, 2001, Documentary Project; the Veterans History Project (VHP); and StoryCorps. While the Twitter archive will not be posted online, the Library envisions posting selected content around topics or themes, similar to existing VHP presentations.
The Library has been collecting materials from the web since it began harvesting congressional and presidential campaign websites in 2000. Today the Library holds more than 167 terabytes of web-based information, including legal blogs, websites of candidates for national office and websites of Members of Congress. In addition, the Library leads the congressionally mandated National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program www.digitalpreservation.gov, which is pursuing a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations.
And more details [from the New York Times] on how this whole Twitter archive thing is going to work.
- Legal Geekery co-founder Andrew Schnitzel tells us that New Jersey lets everyone use a computer to take the bar. Welcome to 2002, New Jersey! There’s a marginally amusing ethics discussion embedded in here, too.
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