web 2.0
Hein Online Help
advice | cool links | library 2.0 | research guides | teaching | web 2.0Joe Hodnicki, over at the Law Librarian Blog, points out that HeinOnline has some pretty good resources for teaching patrons how to use HeinOnline. Check out the training guides and videos.
For our blogging/podcasting faculty
blog | law school | teaching | technology | web 2.0The folks at CALI wanted you to remember that Classcaster may fit all your blogging and podcasting needs. From the announcement: Classcaster provides a solution for faculty, librarians, and technologists who are looking for a simple, advertisement-free, educationally-focused, and vendor neutral blogging and podcasting platform. Classcaster’s features include: – multiple authors per blog – multiple blogs [...]
More blogs
blog | cool links | web 2.0The Law Librarian Blog alerts us to some blogs from Nolo Press, which publishes a bunch of self-help materials. Check them out.
Zotero
web 2.0From the Law Library Blog: Zotero is a Firefox 3 extension for collecting and managing research sources. When integrated with word processing applications, Zotero will creates citations in Bluebook format. Features include Automatic capture of citation information from web pages, library catalogs, online databases, and digital archives Storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web pages Flexible notetaking with autosave Fast, [...]
YouTube - HeinOnline08’s Channel
cool links | legal research | video | web 2.0Get your Hein tutorials on YouTube - HeinOnline08’s Channel. It might just be the geek in me, but I think it’s pretty neat.
Medpedia
internet properties established in 2008 | mediawiki websites | online encyclopedias | web 2.0Medpedia is an open content project to create a medical encyclopedia in association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School as well as other contributors. Content is licenced under the GFDL and will run under the MediaWiki software. Edits can only be made by attributed authors. It is expected to launch in late 2008.
External links
Official siteErnie The Attorney: Gathering information efficiently
news | web 2.0Ernie makes some very good points in this post. If you do go the feed reader route, my advice is to choose your feeds wisely, otherwise you might feel overwhelmed.
Sturvs
blogs | community websites | internet properties established in 2007 | news websites | nigeria | social bookmarking | web 2.0Sturvs is a Nigerian sharing and voting web 2.0 website where users can share news articles, music, videos and any other form of web content. The website runs in a social and democratic manner, similar to popular website Digg, but for Nigerianshttp://tlcstudio.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/profile-sturvs/. Users are given the ability to vote on stories submitted by other users, and the stories with the highest votes make it to the front page. The word "sturvs" is a nigerian slang for "stuff", so basically it is just a place for Nigerians to view and share all their internet stuff.
Law Librarian Blog: New on LLRX.com for April 2008
library | web 2.0Law Librarian Blog: New on LLRX.com for April 2008. See if you can spot the article in which UB Law Library is mentioned.
MediaMelon
film and video technology | high-definition television | video hosting | video on demand services | web 2.0MediaMelon is a San Fransisco, California - based startup. MediaMelon provides an Internet video delivery service optimized for delivering high-definition, full-screen videos that can be accessed and played from various IP devices without the need for a dedicated desktop application or hardware device.
Instead of streaming the video at real-time, which is expensive and is subject to jitters and quality constraints, MediaMelon forward-caches video elements into IP devices so that the playback quality can be guaranteed. MediaMelon's technology works across different kinds of operating systems and browsers.
