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Monthly Archives: April 2009

From Twitter to Quitter

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Reuters reports that Twitter’s retention rate after one month is about 40 percent.  In other words 6 out of 10 new users stop using it within 30 days.  Facebook’s current retention rate is about 70 percent.  I understand how a user could find it difficult to compete with celebrity tweets from Oprah, Miley Cyrus, and [...]

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Internet Law Sampler

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Here are a few of things accumulating in my browser tabs:

Google:  Most takedown notices are illegitimate.  (This is over a month old.  Where have I been?)  “According to a story in PC World, Google says 57 percent of the takedown notices it has received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act were sent by businesses trying [...]

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Mental-Health Break

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

I’ll repeat:  April is a tough time for blog posts.  Students lament the crush of projects and papers they must complete in the weeks before semester-end; teachers lament the piles (literal and digital) of projects and papers we must grade.  [I feel there is an obvious win-win solution staring me in the face, if only [...]

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Fun at Fenway

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Yesterday’s Red Sox-Yankees game may have been the most entertaining baseball game I’ve seen live.  Not the best baseball, but the most over-the-top baseball show.  The 4 hour 21 minute long game featured six lead changes, 28 hits, 15 walks, 16 runners left on base (12 by NY), 6 home runs, 7 Yankee and [...]

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This is dedicated* . . .

Thursday, April 23, 2009

This site now has a dedicated IP address.  The transition caused some minor glitches; they lasted less than 12 hours but before I knew their duration I felt badly enough about their potential impact on students posting wiki projects on AFC Legal Resources that I extended the project deadline by two days.   One student thanked [...]

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I’m Concentrating in Law and Perendination

Monday, April 20, 2009

Thanks to Anu Garg’s A.Word.A.Day (AWAD) newsletter I learned a term my fellow procrastinators — and legions of current college seniors — will embrace: perendinate. It means “to put off until the day after tomorrow” (Garg quotes Mark Twain: “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow”) [...]

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Why Dogs Like Maine

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Cleo asking me to come outside and throw sticks.  She was groomed–brushed, bathed, beautified–yesterday.  Taken with an iPhone.

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