A new blog I found recently (via BlogCatalog), focusing on law and the use of technology in law: Justice Not Blind. As a current MS Word for Mac user (and hating it!), I’m going to be very curious how the editor’s experiment with Pages works out!
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On "The Role of Technology in Human Affairs"
In The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, Yochai Benkler discusses his vision of the role of technology in historical change. He rejects an overly deterministic vision of technology (which he connects with Lewis Mumford and Marshall McLuhan), but also rejects a view of technology as immaterial to a society's direction.
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Law blogging and attorney advertising: Stern v. Bluestone
The New York State Court of Appeals, in Stern v. Bluestone, 2009 NY Slip Op 04740 (2009), overturned a lower court ruling that ruled that a faxed newsletter dealing with attorney malpractice issues - the same area in which the author of the newsletter practiced. Lower courts thought this newsletter constituted advertising, and thus ran into rules about attorney advertising. The Court of Appeals disagreed.
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Five useful blogging tools
Looking for some useful tools that can help enhance your blog and your blogging? Here's a list of some of my favorites.
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The tech transfer process: buffering science from commercialism
Technology transfer offices at universities are key players in the process of putting technology to work. They facilitate the sometimes difficult translation of academic discoveries into private, saleable technology. The offices also serve as a buffer between the demands of private enterprise and the Mertonian ideals of the academic "ivory tower," and the technology transfer process reflects this.
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Are universities about selling information?
I don't believe universities (in their best form, at least) are easily replicated by technological means of information dissemination. But despite the advantages their physicality and tradition offers, many universities have tended to see themselves as simply the means to fill students up with information, stick an "approved" stamp on them, and send them out into the world.
Post title: Justice Not Blind Blog
Authored by: krisnelson
Date posted: Aug 26, 2007
Tagged with: law • technology
Alternate URL: /2007/08/justice-not-blind-blog.html
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