Since we started putting court cases on the interwebs, first with Project Posner and then with AltLaw, we’ve had the occasional angry email from someone who Googles himself/herself and finds a court case from 20 years ago that reveals embarrassing and career-damaging facts. They usually want the page taken down.
Now, sometimes I’m sympathetic with the [...]
There’s a school of thought that URIs should be opaque identifiers with no inherent meaning or structure. I think this is clearly a bad idea on the human-facing web, but it is more reasonable for computer-facing web services.
However, I’ve been generating a lot of RDF lately, trying to organize piles of metadata in AltLaw. [...]
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I have achieved the dream of every geek: I have become a professional blogger. Well, sort of. In February I was hired as the Assistant Director of the new Program on Law and Technology at Columbia Law School. I’ll be doing a mixture of programming, web design, and administration for … whatever [...]
The beginning of a new web site. A new design (forthcoming), a new focus (soon to be apparent), and new software (WordPress).