YouTube is developing a Video Identification system which will help copyright holders identify their works on YouTube. From the about page: We have worked with Google to develop one-of-a-kind technology that can recognize videos based …
Year: 2007
New Statewide Victim Notification System
Thanks to a grant from the US Dept of Justice, Wisconsin will soon be launching a new statewide victim notification system. From the Wisconsin Radio Network: [According to Corrections Secretary Rick Raemisch], the project is …
Differing Perspectives on Book Digitization
A couple interesting stories on book digitization crossed my path this week. The first is an article in EdTech about UW Madison’s involvement in the Google Book project. Google this spring began scanning 500,000 of …
Faking Dr's Note, Jury Duty Summons to Get Out of Work
There is an AP News story making the rounds about a devious little hooky-enabling product called The Excused Absence Network. For about $25, students and employees can buy excuse notes that appear to come from …
Outsourcing Public Libraries
There is a very troubling post over at Out of the Jungle about public libraries which were forced to close due to budget cuts and are now being reopened under the management of an outsourced, …
RSS Comes to CCAP
Update: 10/23/07 RSS feeds will be added to “Court Record Events” by the end of the day according to Jean Bousquet over at Wisconsin Courts. And based on this post, they are also working on …
Save the Date – L. Gasaway to Speak at Marquette on "Amending the Copyright Act for Libraries" on April 18th
As part of National Library Week, Marquette University Law Library will be hosting Laura N. Gasaway, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Law to speak on “Amending the …
HeinOnline to Enhance Title Browsing
HeinOnline will soon be enhancing title browsing. From the HeinOnline Weblog: We added the ability to browse volumes within a title without taking you to an entirely new page. On a collection’s list of titles …
14% of Legal Malpractice Claims Arise from Failure to Know or Properly Apply Law
In doing some research for my upcoming presentation at the WI Solo and Small Firm Conference, I came across and interesting set of statistics. According to the Wisconsin Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company, fourteen percent of …
Read Two Books and Call Me in the Morning
There is a wonderful story in today’s Capital Times about UW Hospital resident, Dipesh Navsaria, who measures his young patients’ development by putting a book in their hands and watching their reaction. From the article: …