Social Media and Technology

Internet Sites For Keeping Score

May 8, 2012 Criminal Law Bloggers

“Keep the score between us Earth,” my favorite poet once wrote, “because it matters.” It does matter.  And anybody who knows me at all knows that I am always keeping score. Fortunately, for those of us who crave external validation and who can’t take pleasure in anything unless it means that we are beating someone [...]

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Untagging Old Photographs on Facebook

March 10, 2012 Social Media and Technology

Recent converts are the worst. Having just discovered Facebook, one of my sisters keeps posting old photographs. She also tags them. This means I have to keep checking Facebook, taking my name off pictures just as quickly as she can put them up. I can’t have people seeing old pictures of me with my goofy [...]

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Bryce Harper and Other Celebrities on Twitter

March 1, 2012 Social Media and Technology

Bryce Harper, star outfielder for the Washington Nationals, has suspended his Twitter account.  No longer will the rest of us be privy to his comings and goings (“Morning Twitter!  On my way to the field!  Hope you all have a great day!  God bless!”) or deepest thoughts and dreams (“Country music always heels wounds!” “Love [...]

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Greenfield v. O’Keefe: Two Views on Social Media, Marketing, and Lawyers

February 6, 2012 Criminal Law Bloggers

H/T to Jordan Rushie.

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On Commies, Pinkos, Fags and Happyspherers

January 16, 2012 Criminal Law Bloggers

Mark Bennett coined the term “Happysphere” a while back, and it has now become a phrase that you need to throw into a blog entry every once in a while to show that you are a member of the tribe.  Use of the term doesn’t require any imagination or thought.  As with the use of [...]

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Toward a “Flawging Quotient”: Justifications of a Self-Professed Flawger

January 15, 2012 Criminal Law Bloggers

There was an extended discussion over at Simple Justice recently about “flawging,” a phrase used, as I understand it, to describe blogs that are intended primarily as marketing tools for their authors. Antonin Pribetic, the blogger who coined the term, suggested a rather narrow definition.  A flawg, according to Pribetic, is a “legal blog without [...]

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On Blogrolls and Egotism

November 19, 2011 Criminal Law Bloggers

Over at People v. State, John Kindley announces that, as part of his “intermittent quest for minimalism,” he has eliminated the blogroll and links page on his blog.  In its stead, he has inserted a drop-down menu in which each of the bloggers who were formerly on his blogroll are now listed as a “category.”  [...]

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Good Samaritans — Not! — Captured on Video

November 6, 2011 Assault

It’s rare that we get a video this good, the prosecutor tells me as he hands me the DVD.  Usually with the metro cameras, he says, they are on the other side of the platform and you can barely make them out.  In this case, the whole thing happened right in front of the camera. [...]

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On Building a Support Network as a Solo Practitioner

October 28, 2011 Law Practice

One of the things I liked best about the Philadelphia public defender’s office – in addition to the camaraderie and sense of shared mission — was the support you got from other lawyers.  If you had a legal question or wanted feedback on a possible trial tactic, you could step out into the court hallway [...]

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Why I Like Surveillance Cameras

September 19, 2011 Evidence

A proposal to install indoor surveillance cameras at Fairfax County schools in Virginia has created quite a controversy.  With many parents still upset over harsh disciplinary practices in the schools that have led to a couple of suicides, critics of the proposal have expressed concern over any further encroachment on the civil liberties of students.  [...]

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