From beSpacific: Study: Business travelers lose more than 12,000 laptops per week in U.S. airports. Report: Airport Insecurity
But where do missing laptops go? Police? TSA? Underworld? The same place missing bicycles and socks go?
While the law librarians are in town (Portland, Oregon) for the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting in Portland, July 12th to July 15th, anyone may explore the Exhibit Hall for no charge.
The Exhibit Hall (at the Oregon Convention Center (OCC)): and here is a list of the vendors (with floor plan).
To get a free pass, just stop by a Registration Booth, either a librarian registration booth or the Exhibitor Registration booth.
What I learned today: The Twitter Exodus
What can you learn from this? For starters, don’t worry if you miss the Twitter train; another one will be along soon.
For those who read Susan Nielsen’s column, The Other Gun Ruling, in the Sunday, July 06, 2008, Oregonian, and want to read the full case from the U.S. Supreme Court, the opinion is here, Giles v. California (docket number: 07-6053, decided June 25, 2008).
Excerpt from Nielson’s column:
“The Supreme Court just ruled in favor of a man who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend. The conservative majority did so by relying heavily on case law from centuries ago, when domestic violence was considered more of a private hobby than a crime.
Local news reports make a big(ish) deal out of the fact that Oregon is the only hold out in the No Hand Held Cell Phones on the Left Coast race, with both California and Washington now signing onto similar laws.
For a more nuanced view of the issue, though not why Oregon is a holdout (and we all have our hypotheses), visit California’s Make Believe Car Phone Safety Law at f/k/a for some commentary, links, and poetry.
Twitter for Librarians (and others who think like librarians :-), via Neat New Stuff on the Web.
I’m not in her techie league, but I do like looking in on what Nicole is doing at What I learned today. Today the one that tickled me was When is good. It seems worth a whirl (if we weren’t already spending half our time trying to schedule meetings, meals, etc.)
And take a look through her link to Wordle’s Word Clouds and to Twitabit, for when Twitter is down (Twitter is down!? Stop the thumbs!), and to 100 Niche Search Engines.
(You can see I’m clearing out my blog post rough drafts!)
See Jim Calloway’s post: Security Issues of Carrying Digital Documents
I also really like this, because going paperless is as much a conceptual adjustment as a business model one: A mobile lawyer is a paperless lawyer
Oregon has excellent resources for non-profits and volunteers, whether you run one, serve on a board, want to work at one, or want to start one:
1) Connectipedia (see 6/17/08 Oregonian article, by Steve Woodward: Nonprofits share the knowledge)
2) TACS: they write the Oregon non-profit source book, without which we would all flail about helplessly, with or without profit.
Oregon Legal Research Blog