As one of a small, but growing, number of Oregon legal bloggers (aka blawgers), I’m asked often to talk about blogging. (I’ve posted some of what I say here and here and here and here.)
It occurred to me that I haven’t blogged for the New Blawger about blog Comments (though I do talk about Comments when I talk to lawyers and librarians about blawging).
So, here goes:
In self-defense (too many questions taking too long to answer) I created this guide on How to Find Oregon Appellate Court Briefs. (You can see why there were all those questions!)
If you have anything to say about the guide, constructive or otherwise (well, maybe not those remarks), please leave a Comment or email my Law Library.
Selected recent postings on this dispute, about which I posted here.
1) From ADF Alliance Alert: Oregon threatens over statutes copyright? (with a link to this post at The Volokh Conspiracy (and associated Comments)
2) J’s Scratchpad: James Grimmelman: Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law: Old Problems and New Solutions
Law Librarian Blog links us to this story about the Legal Information Institute’s, U.S. Code (U.S.C.), including the RSS feed for official updates to the U.S.C.
Not everyone will find this exciting, but law librarians do!
This 100 Top Web 2.0 Apps may be a more useful list than this one, though the latter has its uses (don’t we all).
“How to Stop a Predator: The Rush to Enact Mandatory Sex Offender Residency Restrictions and Why States Should Abstain,” by Justin H. Boyd, 86 Or. L. Rev. 219 (2008)
The Oregon Law Review makes their articles available free, online: OLR homepage and current edition webpage.
Oregon Federal Public Defender, Steve Wax, has written a book, Kafka Comes to America, about his experiences representing Guantanamo prisoners and Brandon Mayfield (whom I blogged about, in The Law Librarian and the FBI).
Thanks to Jack Boganski for the lead!
Via iLibrarian: Awesome is right!
Resources for Online Writers: 50 Awesome Open Source Resources for Online Writers, published on Tuesday April 29th , 2008, by Christina Laun, including: Word Processors, Reference, Organization, Helpful Tools, and Web Tools.
More articles on this dispute (some “old”, some new):
1) From Boing Boing, Via WisLaw, comes this on May 2nd: “Archivists to Oregon: your laws aren’t copyrighted, so there!”
(BTW: If you haven’t see the short animation film, Gerald McBoing Boing (also here, from IMDB), you’ve missed a real treat.)
2) Also, this story from Et Seq, Update on the Oregon Revised Statutes CopyFight, with a direct link to this April 17th, 2008, story: Oregon goes wacka wacka huna kuna
Does A.R.F. on a death certificate stand for Acute Renal Failure or Acute Respiratory Failure?
We all use abbreviations, but not all of us know the dangers of using them with impunity. Use of a wrong, or confusing, abbreviation can lead to serious consequences indeed:
Oregonlive story, from the Argus: “My life has just dissolved” Cherry Grove woman says abbreviation on death certificate caused dog problems,” Friday, May 02, 2008, by Nick Christensen, The Argus:
Oregon Legal Research Blog