World Internet Conference.

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International Conference of World Internet Project 16th – 19th July 2003 at Oxford University. Social scientists representing 75 percent of the world's Internet users will be at the Oxford Internet Institute to compare Internet use and non-use on five continents. The participants are linked together in the World Internet Project (WIP: http://www.worldinternetproject.net/); each is involved in conducted representative national sample surveys in countries as diverse as China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Russia, Sweden and the United States. For more information please email Programmes Assistant (mailto:programs.assistant@oii.ox.ac.uk). Alas! I will be unable to attend.

[Wealth Bondage]

hmm, this should be good. i wish i was going.

Pffft to PDF.

PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption:

Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read and navigate online. PDF is good for printing, but that's it. Don't use it for online presentation.

I couldn't agree more.

[Electric Venom]

hmm, i think this is quite true… i find them irritating.

Adaptive Path: The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams. Jesse James Garrett. Formal titles, job descriptions, and reporting structures can vary widely. But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success. [Tomalak's Realm]

this is an interesting set of competencies, but it lacks the conception of conjoinment, which is central to this type of project.

Put the Supremes on Your iPod.

Our friends at OYEZ.org have now made it ridiculously easy to download MP3s of classic U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments for free under a Creative Commons license.

Here's a list of the first wave of Supreme Court recordings that OYEZ has embedded with license information.

Download (warning: big) a few here if you like, then browse OYEZ for a few dozen more:

(1) Roe v. Wade;

(2) the Pentagon Papers case;

(3) Miranda v. Arizona;

(4) the Sam Sheppard (a.k.a., “the Fugitive”) murder appeal;

(5) the justly titled Loving v. Virginia (in which the Court overturned a Virginia law banning inter-racial marriage).

OYEZ also has the audio from the recent affirmative action cases Gratz and Grutter.

Not jogging music, exactly — but many of them do get the blood going. Hats off to OYEZ for this ongoing public service.

[Creative Commons: weblog]

this is good, more things like this are good.
I like the avalon project at yale too. it has so many good classical documents from american and international law that students can actually learn that perhaps not everyone is portraying american history appropriately, and for that matter american political thought.