This article* got me thinking. If you were to become a great public figure, what would you leave behind that people would point to as illustrative of your early thought? I think for most of us, it's all electronic. But there's something to be said about the personality embodied in the physical. It's somehow a lot more intimate than the...

NewsGator is making it capable to get super snuggly with Microsoft. It's a news aggregator that works inside of Outlook, so you can have Total Information Awareness all in the same program. How fun is that? It's making it very easy for me to organize what I want to investigate further -- all I have to do is drag and...

I've been on the phone with Dell's customer "service" for over two hours now. The homicidal tendencies that usually simmer just under the surface are really starting to emerge. Why me, damn it? And why are all of these people incapable of using their own telephone system?...

"Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. The lawyer has at his touch the associated opinions and decisions of his whole experience, and of the experience of friends and authorities. The patent attorney has on call the millions of...

They're going to have some real trouble getting women to use this security device. Really, what woman would consent to a machine storing information about the "unique shape and weight distribution of [her] rear end"?...

The first incarnation of LazyBlawg is online! Kevin & Jonas have dubbed it the Blawgistan Times. I think it's fantastic that they've decided to archive the contents daily. Dynamic experiences are good, but oftentimes it's useful to take a look back. If you're lost and confused, just visit the site. You'll figure it out. Eventually. Or check out my mini-explanation....

Oh goody. Lazyblawg (see previous post here) is coming to life! Go visit to send in your information....

LazyBlawg sounds really nifty. It's kind of like a call for papers, except applied to blogs. You ping the site with your post, which adds an excerpt to the collaborative blog/feed, people visit the blog/feed and are able to comment on the excerpt or ping it with their reply. Even better, I now know about Tech Law Advisor! It's not...

Andrew has elucidated his thoughts on the super utopian open research scheme. Plus my super-duper comments! Link to more related stuff on Bag & Baggage....

Andrew Raff is being equally geeky as Mike! Andrew envisions a future where courts publish their opinions in open format (!). I don't want to burst anyone's bubble -- they're great ideas! But I predict there won't be any critical mass happening on that front in the courts anytime soon (and probably not within our lifetimes). People may have grown...

Mike at Method to the Madness can't seem to escape his geeky roots. (w00t!) Personally, I think Mike should head down to his local fine drinking establishment and knock back a few, but all freshly geeks-turned-law-students must come to terms with that in their own special way :)...

Garrett has more on laptops in response to a bit by Waddling Thunder (and of course, Waddling Thunder replies to Garrett's remarks). I left a lengthy comment on gTexts. But I won't write any more.* I think this topic has been beaten absolutely to death. * Okay, I might have to renege on that, but I promise it will be...

A professor from GMU weighs in on the other side of the laptop debate. Professor Davies notes that when there is no keyboard chatter emanating from the lecture hall, students don't think there is anything of interest to write down. Professors get feedback automatically!...

TPB discusses laptops in the context of classroom respect with some astute asides on the purpose of the professoriate. This year, I've witnessed a student (with a laptop, no less) read a book, a magazine, play on a handheld computer, do a crossword, and generally be disrespectful. I think anyone who is dead set against paying attention to class will...

Jeff Cooper gives a professorial view of laptops in the classroom (responding, in part, to a previous post). I must protest that the comments (at least mine) on game-playing are largely facetious. I rarely play games on my computer (and 90% of the time it's solitaire -- a game that's easily interrupted). I mostly pop it open when I am...

Garrett reports that his international law prof banned laptops in the classroom. I've been known to play a few games of Snood on ye olde laptoppe, but I don't abuse it. In fact -- because I don't have to worry about reading my handwriting later -- I can type what I want to remember from class, freeing myself from stenographer...

I thought I stepped into Blade Runner for a moment, but I was just really just reading about the law school classroom of the future. The description just gives me the willies. I know I'm a little obsessed with Chirelstein (really, I just can't explain it), but I must note that he never went to class. Law students aren't children...