Tweeting is summertime, which travels at 200 MPH.
Blogging is like the rest of the year, which travels 10-55 MPH.
Tweeting is shorthand and says, now, now, now!
Blogging and other online writing are slow food, and say think, breathe, and think again before acting.
Here are some tips on creating better slow content:
What would you name a race horse, assuming the name would have to be a law-related, lawyer, or law librarian, or librarian name?
I learned recently that I have a relative who has to name race horses – lots of horses. I used to think it would fun to name a horse, but it’s not that much fun at all if you have to come up with a dozen or more names every time the stable gives birth, so to speak. (There are quite a few collective nouns for horses.)
There are horse naming rules (and more rules) but there are also fun horse-naming tips. Use your favorite search engine and try these searches: rules horse names or naming horses
The “Resource Guide for Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children” has a 2012 update.
To obtain a copy of the “Legal Guide for Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children,” please contact AARP Oregon toll-free at (866) 554-5360, or download from the OSU Extension Service Family and Community Health website. (You can also search for it by title using a search engine of choice.)
The Washington County (Oregon) Law Library tries to keep its list of “Oregon Legal Research Resources NOT Online” up to date and we welcome feedback from researchers.
Sometimes we discover that NOT online materials have gone online (yay!) and sometimes we discover yet another resource a legal researcher needs is still not online, so email us or leave a Comment if you notice that we need to update our Not Online list.
You can link to it from our Legal Research Resources page or our Documents Index. Just look for the “Not Online” title.
If that beautifully presented meal you gaze upon was in fact prepared by unwashed hands, harbors e-coli, was cooked 3 days ago and never refrigerated, and has been licked by the cook’s cat, dog, and ferret, would you eat it?
Would you pay good money for original artwork, without guarantees of originality, papers of provenance, and proof of seller’s ownership?
Why then would you risk your life, liberty, property, and family by relying on “law” that might not really be “the law?”
Subscribe to Oregon and U.S. court and case law e-summary services from the Willamette University Law School service: Willamette Law Online. It’s a painless way to stay informed about new caselaw:
1) 9th Circuit Case Summary Service
2) Oregon Court of Appeals Case Summary Service
3) Intellectual Property Case Summary Service
4) Oregon Supreme Court Case Summary Service
5) United States Supreme Court Case Summary Service
For example, they alerted me to this upcoming U.S. Supreme Court copyright case:
Do you have questions about … debt collection, bankruptcy, employment (wage claims, termination, discrimination & unemployment), or expungement of a criminal record?
Oregon attorneys volunteering at these two Pro Bono Legal Clinics may be of assistance. Link to clinic flyers from the Washington County Law Library What’s New? webpage:
1) Oregon Law Center & Intel Corporation’s Pro Bono Debt Clinic
It’s only a matter of time before someone asks about “the burrito case, you know, the ‘ultimate fighting’ case.”
This might not be the only Oregon burrito, ultimate fighting case, but if anyone asks, start here:
Oregon Court of Appeals: State vs. Debuiser, A145479 (decided April 4, 2012)
April 24 is the deadline for voter registration for the May 15, 2012, primary.
For links to Oregon county and state voter registration and election websites, visit our previous Oregon Voter Registration Deadline blog post.
As if copyright wasn’t complicated enough, we have a new organization (since Sept 2011): Center for Copyright Information
You can read about them, their FAQ, and their Facts.
If it wasn’t such a fascinating, aggravating, and historically curious topic, I would probably just add copyright to my list of dogs-breakfast topics. But if you are brave, wise, and have the patience of Job, Siddhartha, and Nelson Mandela all rolled into one magnificent being, I highly recommend copyright as a subject to conquer, not unlike colonizing other planets and wars to end all wars.
Oregon Legal Research Blog