Check This Out! Podcast

Sorry folks, but the Thanksgiving holiday got away from me, and I didn't do a podcast this weekend. I'll have a special episode this coming weekend, though--another interview, a special Canadian Minute, and for Librarians in Film, Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in Desk Set. Don't miss it!

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In this week's episode I report live from Vanuatu, where I attended the 7th Annual Conference on Law via the Internet, sponsored by AustLII and PacLII. This is a conference for the various Legal Information Institutes around the world, all of them committed to publishing primary legal information for free access on the Internet. See WorldLII for more.

I spoke with delegates from Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, and I share some of those conversations with you.

• Janine Miller, Project Manager, CanLII
• Philip Chung, Executive Director, AustLII
• Anne Gras, President de tribunal administratif et de cour administrative d'appel, Nouvelle-Caledonie
• Karl Charbonneau, LexUM
• John Haea, Wilma Marakan, Roslyn Hoping, and Julie Hulama, Papua New Guinea
• Peter Murgatroyd, Law Librarian, University of the South Pacific

My deepest thanks to everyone who took the time to talk with me, and thank you for listening!

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The Week in Blawgs:

• Superprecedent
• Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times
• Jack Balkin, Balkinization
• Dan Solove, Concurring Opinions
• Improving Law School Reputation
• Gordon Smith, Conglomerate
• Victor Fleischer, Conglomerate

Library World News

• Library 2.0
• Paul Miller, Web 2.0: Building the New Library
• Wikipedia, Library 2.0
• Jason Book, Publish
• Pew Internet Report, Teen Content Creators and Consumers
• Web Two Point Oh!
• An interview with Stina McClintock, the girl in the photo

Librarians in Film

• The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)

This week's music:

• Intro: Derek K. Miller, Meltdown Man
• Halftime: Jonathon Coulton, W's Duty

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Intro: "Meltdown Man," Derek K. Miller

The Week in Blawgs: Lawyers discover podcasting

• Law.com, Corporate Counsel magazine
• Canadian Bar Association

Library World News: Google and Amazon, head to head

• New York Times
• Amazon.com press release
• U of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
• The Economist

Music: "Baby Got Back," Jonathon Coulton

Canadian Minute: E-Laws become official

Librarians in Film: Party Girl (1995)

Listener Email

• Librarian photo
• Blogging ethics
• Retina surgery

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The Week in Blawgs: Blogging Ethics

• Ethan Leib
• Dan Markel
• Marcy Peek
• Will Baude
• Dan Solove

Library World News: The Future of Law Libraries

Canadian Minute: The Metric System, as illustrated by Corner Gas

Librarians in Film: Miranda (2002)

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The Week in Blawgs

• Top story: Harriet Miers nomination
• Althouse on why nobody likes Miers
• Scott Lemieux likes Miers better than the alternative
• Miers and the Martindale-Hubbell coverup

Library World News

• Publishers sue Google over Google Print
• The Pocket Part
• AALL photo contest winner
• A view from abroad

Canadian Minute

• DRL

Librarians in Film

• Black Mask (1996)