A very “Will It Blend” holiday season
The next-best thing to getting Guitar Hero III for the holidays (no, we didn’t get it): blending it!
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Clouded Constitution
While taking a short break from grading, I came across Wordle, a great tag-cloud generator. Here’s a tag cloud of the U.S. Constitution I created using Worldle here: And here’s another one made using Article III, sections 1 and 2 regarding the courts. Wordles licensed CC 3.0 Attribution U.S.
Change.gov and Open-Government.us: an open Web 2.0 approach to the Obama transition
A new website, Open-Government.us, proposes three “open transition” principles for President-elect Obama’s transition to the office of the President. The site, set up by Lawrence Lessig and others, notes the importance of openness and accessibility for the transition process. For example, although Obama’s Change.gov transition site is generally subject to a Creative Commons license, his videos are made available through his Transition Project YouTube account. In turn, YouTube is a proprietary site that does not permit downloading of user content. As noted in the principles, open government requires that citizens be able to copy, remix, and excerpt such materials unfettered from undue proprietary or format restraints.
Here’s a short explanatory video from http://open-government.us/:
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Below the break is text with the three principles, also from http://open-government.us/:
Advice for new law students, part V: avoid Monty Python “Yes it is!, No it isn’t!” argumentation
When engaging in legal analysis, avoid being conclusory. As I tell my 1Ls, always follow the advice of Dorothy from the song Follow the Yellow-Brick Road (emphasis added): If ever, oh ever, a Wiz there was the Wizard of Oz is one because Because, because, because, because, because Because of the wonderful things he does. […]
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