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COnsumers can upload directly from the camera for free from home wifi or use T-Mobile for $4.99/mo. It is easy to imagine T-Mobile adding hotspots at Disneyworld and folks can upload pics directly from the hapiest place on earth.

BetaNews | Kodak Unveils PC-Free Digital Camera
Kodak earlier this week unveiled a wireless digital camera, and announced a partnership with T-Mobile Hotspot that would allow the unit to e-mail pictures without the need for a computer.

OK, this is just funny. West labels this casebook ‘revolutionary’ because it is just like other traditional casebooks. Apparently other casebooks in Law and Accounting are not traditional in the sense that they feature a lot more narrative than one normally finds in a casebook. So creating a traditional casebook becomes a revolutionary act. Man, it makes my head spin.

Cunningham’s Latest Casebook Released - Boston College
In a recent press release, West calls the book “revolutionary,” in that it uses primary materials instead of author narrative, presenting a comprehensive selection and organization of original accounting pronouncements and legal cases applying them. The book is also highly-traditional: primary materials are the dominant textual vehicle used in virtually all other law school courses. By adopting this traditional approach for law and accounting, Cunningham’s new book puts the subject on par with other law school courses.

AMD brings bare-bones PC to consumers - Yahoo! News
Radio Shack plans to start selling a low-cost alternative to the personal computer starting Sunday.

The $299 machine, dubbed the Personal Internet Communicator, was designed by Advanced Micro Devices to access the Internet and perform basic computing tasks.

This is interesting. basically the author(s) setup a post for each circuit and are allowing anonymous posters to comment with information about each circuit as it becomes available. Currently, posts most list which judges are scheduling interviews, but we should expect ot see info about hiring soon enough. This is a nexcellent example of leveraging the power of a blog to gather and disseminate information. It would be cooler if there were RSS feeds for the comments.

Clerkship Notification Blog

North Jersey Media Group providing local news, sports & classifieds for Northern New Jersey!
When Travis Misurell arrived for freshman orientation at Montclair State University last month, he received the ultimate welcome gift.

School officials handed him a $250 Motorola cellphone - and told him to use it.

Not for phone calls, but to tap into a multitude of “channels” packed with news and updates on campus happenings.

This is intersting. Great potential.

O’Reilly Radar > Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine
Rollyo affords anyone the ability to roll their own Yahoo!-powered search engine, attenuating results to a set of up to 25 sites. And while the searchrolls (as they’re called) you create are around a particular topic (e.g. Food and Dining), they are also attached to a real person (e.g. Food and Dining is by Jason Kottke). The result is a topic-specific search created and maintained by a trusted source.

NASA World Wind
World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.

There is an entry for Contract Law.

Wikibooks takes on textbook industry | CNET News.com
Today, Wikibooks contains 11,426 submissions. The topics covered range from biology to economics in New Zealand. Because the books are digital and open source, any teacher can decide to assign one and simply point students to PDFs they can print.

MAKE: Blog: Build a Telephone Recording Circuit from an Old Modem
This little hack is useful for those of us wanting to record Voip telephone calls for podcasts with good quality audio. Keep in mind that recording telephone calls without notifying all parties involved is against the law in many parts of the world.

Dave notes that I live blogged today’s sessions of the Duke Podcasting Symposium . I used Dave’s OPML Editor and I found it very handy. I’ve been blogging for nearly 5 years and I’ve threatened to live blog every conference I ‘ve been at since then, but it never seemed to work out. The OPML Editor made it work. Now if I could route the posts to this blog…

For all you folks looking for an alternative to .ppt, try a blog. For a bonus use Classcaster to add audio.

LawLibTech: PowerPoint Alternatives - From Browsers to Blogs, Part II

StarOffice 8 offers enhanced Office compatibility - Computerworld
Sun Microsystems Inc. today released a new version of StarOffice designed to better address the software’s compatibility with Microsoft Office, one of the chief complaints among users of Sun’s office productivity suite.

Interesting comment. At today’s Duke podcasting symposium someone asked an Apple engineer about Apple’s plans for video and he said that the laptop was the perfect video iPod and video on phones didn’t really work.
I don’t know about you, but I’m sensing a trend.

BetaNews | iPod Chief Not Excited About iTunes Phone
In an interview with the German daily Berliner Zeitung on Monday, Apple vice president and iPod division head Jon Rubenstein expressed his feelings on the convergence of music devices and cell phones, saying the devices are best left separate.

Sounds sweet:)

RollingStone.com: Bruce Springsteen : Springsteen “Born” Again : News
Bruce Springsteen’s seminal 1975 album, Born to Run, will be reissued in a thirtieth anniversary edition on November 15th. The three-disc set features the remastered album, a live DVD, an additional DVD of new interviews with Springsteen collaborators and a forty-eight-page booklet of previously unpublished photographs.

Well, cell reception in the Fitzpatrick Center @ Duke is non-existant, so I can’t call Classcaster. At lunch I’ll step outside and give it a try.

Online at the Duke podcasting symposium. I’ve got a hardwired connection, wireless is available but I prefer all the bandwidth I can find. Here are a few links to get things started:

Intros are starting…

Brief article with a number of links to various podcasting efforts that include the use of iTunes.

Thomson Peterson’s–Syndication for Higher Ed » Before Private iTunes Stores…

By including support for Intel telephony products Digium will be abel to provide a version of Asterisk that supports more advanced digital telephony features.

Intel Gets Inside Asterisk with New Drivers
Digium and Intel have partnered in an effort that will see the professional version of Asterisk, Asterisk Business Edition, run on Intel’s building blocks and be supported on Intel’s Dialogic and NetStructure products.