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Just A Podcasting Test

JohnPMayer — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:33:48 -0400

Here is my test podcast.

Click to listen or right-click to download - JustATest4Podcasting.mp3

New Podcast Launched - PLEASE PAY ATTENTION

JohnPMayer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:22:52 -0400

"Please Pay Attention" is the working title of the new podcast series. We would love to get suggestions from listeners to name this podcast.

Elmer Masters and I talk about legal education-related IT topics several times a week and we have threatened in the past to turn some of those conversations into podcasts because we believe that others might benefit. Alternatively, others might listen and set us straight.

So we have followed up on our threat and recorded the first in a series of podcasts. The general topic area is IT in legal education/law schools. We don't expect to be the only voices on this podcast as we will be inviting "guest speakers" - that is - real IT folks who work at real jobs in real law schools.

But for this first podcast, we decided to keep it between just me and Elmer and talk about Drupal (Elmer attended DrupalCon in Boston last week), Drupal, the massively popular open source content management system and related topics on law school website design, development and administration issues.

We talk a bit about the planned DrupalFest to be held during the 2008 Conference for Law School Computing on June 18-21, 2008 in Baltimore, MD at the University of Maryland School of Law.

Give it a listen, give us some feedback and in a couple of weeks we will see if this a drive-by podcast or we will be repeat offenders.

Here is the podcast ... LegalEdITpodcast001rev1.mp3 (updated version after running The Levelator to clean up sound volume levels)

iTunes links to be added soon.

Intro and out-tro music is Creative Commons licensed and was found at Podsafe Audio. The artist is Heather Sullivan and the tune is "I Believe".

2008 Annual CALI Members Meeting - Screencast Version

JohnPMayer — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:36:42 -0500

Here is the link to the screencast version of my talk at the 2008 Annual CALI Members Meeting held on Friday, January 5, 2008 in New York during AALS.

I had previously posted the podcast/audio recording and Powerpoint slides.

Podcast of AALS Session: Rethinking Legal Education For The 21st Century

JohnPMayer — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:19:25 -0500

Here ...

AALS2008Carnegie.mp3

... is the recording of the AALS Session: Rethinking Legal Education For The 21st Century. The speakers included...

Moderator: Edward L. Rubin, Vanderbilt University Law School
Speakers: Vicki C. Jackson, Georgetown University Law Center
Robert Mac Crate, Esq., Senior Counsel, Sullivan and Cromwell, New York, New York
Martha L. Minow, Harvard Law School
Suellyn Scarnecchia, University of New Mexico School of Law
William M. Sullivan, Senior Scholar The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Palo Alto, California
Judith W. Wegner, University of North Carolina School of Law

CALI 2008 Annual Members Meeting - CALI and Carnegie

JohnPMayer — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:09:26 -0500

Here is the recording of my talk at the 2008 Annual Membership Meeting for CALI during AALS in New York, NY on January 5, 2008 ... AALS2008CALIBreakfast.mp3

Here are the slides ... 2008AALSBreakfast_final.ppt

I will be posting a screencast version soon and posting more information about ELangdell into the future.

SwapNotes.com's Adam Steiner - Podcast Interview

JohnPMayer — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:24:02 -0400

I lurk on the LawProf discussion list and was privy to the discussion about student note sharing websites that surrounded SwapNotes.com over the past few days.

I was a bit perturbed by the vehemence of some of the responses and invited Adam Steiner who is a 3L at Cardozo Law School to talk about his company.

In many ways, it's a familiar Internet entrepreneur story. Students were already sharing their course notes via email and other (somewhat) under-the-radar file repositories and Adam saw a way to make the process more efficient by creating a centralized, Creative Common-based respository of student-contributed notes. He pays the hosting/bandwidth bills via advertising on the website.

Some faculty object to this for copyright reasons. I don't go into this aspect in the interview because neither I nor Adam are copyright experts. I direct the reader to Professor Michael Madison's cogent analysis here.

We do discuss the pedagogical issues that are inherent in Adam's enterprise because I believe this has direct overlap with CALI's mission and our work on the creation of a Legal Education Commons (I talk about the Legal Education Commons projects here in a video/podcast of a presentation recently delivered at the Harvard Berkman Center).

The conversation is 28 minutes long and you can listen to it by clicking on the following link - adamsteinerswapnotes.mp3.

I have also invited Adam to speak at the Conference for Law School Computing which will be June 18-20, 2007 at UNLV in Las Vegas. I will also be inviting owner/operators of other law student note-sharing websites.

Like the issue of banning laptops in the classroom, I believe there is more here than what is visible on the surface. I think it would be difficult to for faculty to completely suppress all sharing of student notes for copyright infringement reasons. I think it would be hypocritical to suppress sharing for pedagogical reasons. If you are going to issue take-down notices to websites, you should consider closing your law school's bookstore (or at least telling them to stop selling commercial outlines).

Students of the digital age are very much into RML or Rip, Mix, Learn. I delivered an entire keynote address on this topic at the 2006 CALI Conference. You can watch the video, screencast or listen to the podcast here.

Subclassing the Commons - My Talk at the Berkman Center

JohnPMayer — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:15:48 -0400

I spent a wonderful day last week at the Berkman Center and gave a fast-paced talk about past, current and future CALI projects. The Berkman folks are involved in all kinds of imaginative, challenging and exciting projects that overlap with my work at CALI in all kinds of ways. I had a great time.

The kind folks at Berkman have already posted a podcast and video of my talk.

I look forward to working more closely with them in the future.

Hamline's Conversations in Law Podcasts

JohnPMayer — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:48:36 -0500

I am always looking for sources of interesting podcasts and one of my staff pointed me to this collection of gems.

Hamline's Conversations in Law.

Lots of intersting topics relating to law, society, culture and even Malcom Gladwell, author of Blink and the Tipping Point.

Podcast Interview with Professor Garrett Power - Open Access Casebook Author

JohnPMayer — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:11:19 -0500

Professor Garrett Power has spent 30 years writing his casebook which is titled: Constitutional Limitations on Land Use Controls, Environmental Regulations and Governmental Exactions.

He has posted the 704 page PDF to SSRN and the University of Maryland's Digital Commons website.

In this 24 minute conversation, we talk about his motivations and expectations for the casebook and open-access content.

Click here to listen or right-click to download - GarretPower2.mp3

New and Exciting CALI Projects: CALI Members Meeting - January 2007 - Screencast/Podcast

JohnPMayer — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:48:23 -0500

Every year, the membership of CALI meets during AALS to elect new members to the Board of Directors and I give an overview of the previous year plus a look-ahead to the coming year.

2006 was an amazing year for CALI and I expect that 2007 will be even better.

You can watch/listen to my screencast here.

Alternatively, you can listen to just a podcast of the presentation. Click to listen or right-click to download the MP3 - AALS2007CALIMembersMeeting.mp3

I welcome comments, ideas, suggestions, complaints and kudos. Drop me a note at jmayer@cali.org.

Mayer Family Xmas - 12 Days of Christmas 2007 Podcast

JohnPMayer — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:02:29 -0500

Every year, my sisters and their families gather for the holidays and one of our traditions is to jointly sing the 12 Days of Christmas.

This year, we tried something a little different. On the last verse (where all 12 days are sung), we tried to "sing" the "sound" of the item ... uhhh ... it leaves something to be desired.

Click to listen or right click to download the MP3 - Mayer200612Days.mp3

Podcast Interview with Law Faculty Podcaster Stephen Safranek of Ava Maria School of Law

JohnPMayer — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:03:21 -0500

Professor Stephen Safranek of Ave Maria School of Law created podcasts for all of his classroom lectures while teaching Contracts in the Spring 2006 semester and is doing the same this fall. I interviewed Professor Safranek (twice) and must thank him for his patience and equanamity as a technical glitch lost the first interview (Doh!).

Here is the podcast (11:34)- click to listen or right click to download. - SteveSafranekfinal.mp3

Legal Information for Podcasters

JohnPMayer — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:40:46 -0500

Ran across a useful interview that Charlie White conducted with attorney Jeffrey Hermes in four parts. They talk about various legal issues that have to do with podcasting like First Amendment protections, defamation, fair use and being sued. Worth a read..

...and...

You know, this would have worked better as a podcast.

Podcasting the Classroom: Two Models - Podcast of Talk at EDUCAUSE 2006 - UPDATED

JohnPMayer — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:34:59 -0400

Elmer Masters and I spoke at EDUCAUSE today in a presentation titled "Podcasting the Classroom: Two Models".

Here is the Powerpoint deck from the talk. Elmer used a TiddlyWiki for his talk and I will post a link when I get it - EDUCAUSEPodcasting.ppt

Here is a link to the audio of the talk that I recorded. Click to listen or right-click to download the MP3 - Educause2006PodcastTwoModels.mp3

UPDATE: Here is a link to a screencast of the presentation that syncs the audio to the powerpoints.

Podcast Interview with Professor Vince Chiapetta of Willamette University College of Law about Patents and the BlackBoard v. Desire2Learn Suit - UPDATED

JohnPMayer — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:45:02 -0400

This is my second interview with a law professor who teaches patent law. Professor Vince Chiapetta teaches at Willamette University College of Law and has been involved in patent litigation in the past.

The first podcast was with Professor Mary LaFrance of UNLV Boyd School of Law.

Vince was kind enough to entertain my questions and enlighten in me in many aspects of patents, patent law and patent litigation. He clarified many issue for me in regards to the BlackBoard v. Desire2Learn litigation.

I had the benefit of speaking with Vince the day after my return from EDUCAUSE in Dallas where one of the sessions I attended was the BlackBoard Town Hall which others have blogged about here (Chronicle article) and here (Al Essa's blog). This session left me with more questions than answers and these were fresh in my mind during my talk with Vince.

We talked about many legal issues and so I will come back to this post later and add some links to legal definitions or other articles to help us non-lawyers follow the bouncing ball.

UPDATE: I ran the audio file through Gigabox's excellent free tool Levelator to make it more listen-able (my voice boomed while Vince sounded distant) to good effect. The link is to the new version.

Click to listen to the podcast or right-click to download - Chiapetta2.mp3

As usual, none of the information in this podcast should be construed as legal advice.

UPDATE:

We covered a lot of technical territory in this podcast. Here are some links that relate to some of the topics covered...

KSR v. Teleflex - a current patent case going before the Supreme Court soon. This is a link to a blog that talks about the case.
The term I was searching for about 10 minutes into the podcast was "Skilled Artisan" and here is a link to the USPTO website that helped me. Use your browser (Ctrl-F) to search for "skilled artisan".
Definition of Mens Rea from LII's Wex.
More about the Sherman Act from Wex
Walker Process Supreme Court case that ties together inequitable conduct and antitrust (link to Findlaw)
Here's an article on "inequitable conduct" in patent litigation. I have not read this yet.
Here's an article about the US District Court in Texas often referred to as the "Rocket Docket" for patent cases.
Cost of patent litigration from Wikipedia..."...A typical patent infringement case in the US costs 1 - 3 million dollars in legal fees for each side. This is despite the fact that 99% of all patent infringement cases are settled. Legal fees in pharmaceutical cases can run 30 million dollars or more due to the fact that billions of dollars may be at stake...."
Wikipedia article on software patents
Article on "Markman Hearings" with this quote... "...While the form, timing and scope of "Markman" hearings vary from district to district and from judge to judge, the outcome is often dispositive of the entire case. This occurs because the interpretation of a patent claim, or "claim construction", is the central issue in most patent litigation. Whether the litigation focuses on patent infringement or validity, the core issue is often whether there is a narrow or broad interpretation of the patent claim...."