I feel so badly for the folks at Circuit City who are losing their jobs due to the liquidation. Before law school, I managed an Electronics Boutique store. Retail management was actually a fun job. I enjoyed working with people (another reason I love teaching) and it was great to be exposed to continually advancing […]
The next-best thing to getting Guitar Hero III for the holidays (no, we didn’t get it): blending it!
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.
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/:
