Creating Permanent Arcival URLs for Use With Citations
Check out webcitation.org — a project run at the University of Toronto. The basic idea is to create a permanent URL for citations, so that when the Supreme Court, e.g., cites a webpage, there’s a reliable way to get back to the webpage it cited. They do this by creating a reference URL, which then will refer back to an archive of the page created when the reference was created. E.g., I entered the URL for my blog (“http://lessig.org/blog”). It then created an archive URL “http://www.webcitation.org/5IlFymF33”. Click on it and it should take you to an archive page for my blog.Why, you might ask, would you ever want to substitute that long ugly URL for the short and spiffy http://lessig.org/blog? Well first, and most obviously if you’ve ever written something for publication, URLs are not always short and spiffy. Second, the point is to create an archive of a page at a particular moment.
This is a great idea, but as Prof. Lessig notes later in the piece, it does need to have some sort of guarentee of being permanent and not a dead-end. Also, the focus is on citation in scholarly works, but all web writing would benefit from some sort of permanent URI generater that would allow for the archiving and maintenance of links.
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‘Tis The Season: Tips for 1Ls
BoleyBlogs! – Tips for 1Ls – Great resources for those starting their legal education. Highlights the many resources of CALI.
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Self Help LEgal Movement Gets a Blog
SHLEP’s goal is to bring the benefits of a daily weblog to the Self-Help Law movement. Developments and news about self-help will be presented (often thanks to the efforts of the good folk at SelHelpSupport.org). In addition to creating or organizing background materials for those who want to find self-help resources, your editor will attempt to keep readers informed of self-help resources available to the public and to professional providers of those services, of studies and reports on self-help law and related issues, of relevant symposia and meetings, and of the people and groups aiding (or obstructing) the movement.
shlep: the Self-Help Law ExPress » About shlep
Found via BoleyBlogs! SHLEP will blog the coming legal literacy revolution.
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Chief Windows Developer Leaves MSFT, Heads to Amazon
19-year Microsoft veteran Brian Valentine, who has led Windows development since 1998, is leaving the Redmond company to join Amazon.com. The news comes just one month after Microsoft said Valentine would transition to a new, unspecified role.Valentine began working at Microsoft in 1987 as an Engineering Manager in the LAN Manager Group. He was largely responsible for cleaning up the Windows 2000 development mess and getting the operating system out the door.
BetaNews | Windows Head Departs for Amazon
That is a lot of developer memory to let go out the door. Does amke you wonder abotu the future for Vista.
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MSFT Releases IronPython, Python for .NET
Microsoft has announced the release of IronPython 1.0, its implementation of the Python dynamic programming language on the .Net platform.The Redmond, Wash., software giant released IronPython 1.0 on the company’s CodePlex community source Web site on Sept. 5. Company officials said IronPython 1.0 represents a significant milestone for Microsoft’s CLR (Common Language Runtime) by demonstrating performance and capability of a dynamic language on the .Net Framework.
Microsoft Ships IronPython 1.0
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