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Top law firm pulls "hottest lawyer" contest from company blog

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:52:40 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: This is funny. For those who don't know, Skadden is a MAJOR law firm in new york city. Apparently they were blogging about their annual "hottest lawyer at the firm" contest and a bunch of higher ups got pissed off. I'm so curious to know who won. Anyone with a photo, please share

Clip Source: www.law.com

Who's the hottest young woman lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom? Last week that question sent the New York firm into a bit of a tizzy. On Feb. 4, Skadden Insider, a blog written by two anonymous firm employees and dedicated, unofficially, to all things Skadden, announced the winner of its weeklong poll to decide the firm's "Hottest Female Associate." The contest was hardly Skadden Gone Wild -- most of the photos of the eight contestants were relatively innocuous head shots. The winner, a blond litigator, drew 400 votes from Skadden cognoscenti.

But the firm was not amused. On Feb. 7, Skadden of counsel Henry "Hank" Baer, the firm's employment adviser, sent an e-mail to all Skadden lawyers in the United States, chastising the blog.

Tags: law firm, law, funny, skadden, hot

A bad three months for Obama

Mon, 19 May 2008 01:52:25 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Though it seems likely that he'll get the nomination, democrats can not feel very good that he has lost handily to Clinton over the past 3 months.

Clip Source: www.usnews.com

As the Baseball Crank blog points out, Obama has not had a good March, April, and May. Starting with the March 4 primaries, he's trailed Clinton by 346,004 popular votes, and the blog estimates that he'll lose the still-to-come primaries by another 186,497 popular votes.

Tags: politics, obama, hillary clinton, election

Dr blogs own malpractice trial, loses

Thu, 31 May 2007 14:31:07 GMT

clipped by: jklugman
clipper's remarks: Pediatrician Robert Lindeman started an anonymous blog, "drfleablog", where he talked about pediatrics issues. He was sued for failing to diagnose diabetes in a little boy who eventually died from it. In his blog, he would talk about the malpractice suit and make fun of the plaintiffs and the jury.

Since he knew that malpractice cases hinge on what juries think of the doctor's moral character, the revelation that he was the author of the blog meant that his asshole nature would be exposed to the jury and his case would be sunk.

Clip Source: www.boston.com

As Ivy League-educated pediatrician Robert P. Lindeman sat on the stand in Suffolk Superior Court this month, defending himself in a malpractice suit involving the death of a 12-year-old patient, the opposing counsel startled him with a question.

Was Lindeman Flea?

Flea, jurors in the case didn't know, was the screen name for a blogger who had written often and at length about a trial remarkably similar to the one that was going on in the courtroom that day.

In his blog, Flea had ridiculed the plaintiff's case and the plaintiff's lawyer. He had revealed the defense strategy. He had accused members of the jury of dozing.

Lindeman admitted that he was, in fact, Flea.

The next morning, on May 15, he agreed to pay what members of Boston's tight-knit legal community describe as a substantial settlement

Mulvey had telegraphed that she was ready to share Lindeman's blog -- containing his unvarnished views of lawyers, jurors, and the legal process -- with the jury.

Tags: blogging, malpractice, medicine

China backs down over blog ID proposal

Sat, 26 May 2007 12:43:28 GMT

clipped by: shankargallery
clipper's remarks: Chinese bloggers will not have to register their real names online, after the government backed down over plans to enforce the proposals.

With more and more stories surfacing regularly about web censorship, China's estimated 20 million bloggers will be pleased with the news that they will not be compelled to register their real names.

The Internet Society of China (ISC) revealed on its website that it wanted bloggers to be self-disciplined and urged them to "consciously enhance their sense of responsibility and social awareness of public morality".

One of the country's most famous bloggers, Ping Ke, told the BBC: "They are not forcing, but suggesting and encouraging people to do things now."

Chinese bloggers protested at the proposals, which were viewed as methods by which the government could control information.

Better services are being promised to those bloggers who opt to register their real names and personal details.

Jeremy Goldkorn, founder of the website Danw

Clip Source: www.bigmouthmedia.com

China backs down over blog ID proposal

Chinese bloggers will not have to register their real names online, after the government backed down over plans to enforce the proposals.

The Internet Society of China (ISC) revealed on its website that it wanted bloggers to be self-disciplined and urged them to "consciously enhance their sense of responsibility and social awareness of public morality".

Jeremy Goldkorn, founder of the website Danwei.org, a blog monitoring Chinese media, said: "One of the major complaints about the proposed real name registration rules from blog hosting companies is that registration would be impossible to implement without huge changes to the way their websites operate.

A recent study by AFP revealed that internet censorship is on the rise, with 26 out of 40 countries examined guilty of filtering or blocking content.

Tags: id

Keen: "Blogs are boring"

Thu, 24 May 2007 14:15:24 GMT

clipped by: ezqimo
clipper's remarks: This is from the author's own blog...

Clip Source: andrewkeen.typepad.com

What I really want to discuss is the impact of Web 2.0 on truth, education, memory and power. I want debate the increasingly Orwellian role of Google in our information economy. I want to talk about the way in which the Internet has unleashed a plague of pornography, gambling and intellectual dishonesty on our youth. I want to discuss the future of the book. I want to imagine the future of knowledge when, to quote David Weinberger, everything is miscellaneous.

Tags: book, blog, web2.0, perspective, future, development

Clipmarks introduces simultaneous multiple blogasms...

Thu, 03 May 2007 20:26:17 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Just an fyi to any of you clip-to-bloggers out there.

Clip Source: clipmarks.wordpress.com

Have your ever experienced simultaneous multiple blogasms? Doubtful, but now you can! Today we introduced a pretty major upgrade to our Clip-to-Blog feature that lets you simultaneously post clips to as many blogs as you have. Also, you can save each of your blogs as part of your Clipmarks profile and then easily toggle to the one you want a specific post to go to. Bottom line, if you manage more than one blog, Clip-to-Blog just made it much easier for you to easily and quickly keep them fresh with new, interesting content.

Tags: clipmarks, clip-to-blog

Clipmarks update...introducing ClipSearch!

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:44:31 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Thank you to everyone who pushed us to get moving on this one. We're very excited about how much better the overall Clipmarks experience is with ClipSearch. Read the full blog post here.

In the blog post, there is an overview of some other changes that we also made to the site.

Clip Source: clipmarks.wordpress.com

This is a big one for us. So far, Clipmarks has relied solely on user-generated tags to power our search. But after a number of requests from our users, it finally sunk in, “why the heck aren’t we letting people do keyword searches based on the content inside of clips?” Talk about the easiest, most powerful way to keep track of the stuff you find online! Just clip things you find and have them automatically added to your own keyword searchable library. Each clipper is literally filtering the web to their liking and should have a search engine that lets them easily sort through it all. Brilliant! Well, today I am very excited to announce the introduction of ClipSearch!!

And in a tip-of-the-cap to StumbleUpon, we wanted to let visitors to the site jump around from topic to topic, without knowing what would come next. So we’ve introduced the “Surprise Me” button. The idea here is that you don’t always know what topic you’re interested in, but you’d like to explore until you find one.

Tags: clipmarks, update, clipsearch

I'm out of blog retirement

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:38:45 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Being that i spend 25 hours each day on clipmarks.com, this is where the focus of my clipping will be. But it will be interesting to see how it feels to also spread my clips and perspective outside the clipiverse and into the clip-to-blogosphere

Clip Source: egoldstein.vox.com

About a year ago, i retired from blogging. I just wasn't finding it easy or spontaneous enough. And for whatever reason, i found it stressful.

What I didn't know then is that a year later we would integrate clipmarks with blogging as a way to make it easier, quicker and more spontaneous to blog about interesting things found on the web.

So, my retirement is officially over. I'm excited for this new beginning and looking forward to sharing my perspective on some of the interesting things i find online.

Tags: blog, clipmarks, blogging, clip-to-blog

From a blog post about Clipmarks

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:36:38 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Sorry for posting a number of clips recently about Clipmarks. Just really excited about how the message is really beginning to spread around the web!

Clip Source: microexplosion.blogspot.com

I'm a big Del.icio.us user and am always saving links there but Clipmarks seems like a better way to pass along something I see or read rather than sending people a link to a page where the content on that page may not apply entirely. For instance, I can just clip an important paragraph or two without and email it to a friend rather than sending a link to an entire article with a confusing explanation like "hey, this article is decent but you've really got to check out the 6th and 8th paragraphs...those are really interesting." Whereas Del.icio.us is really for my own reference, Clipmarks is going to be what I'll use to send articles, blog posts, pictures, etc. to other people when a simple link won't be sufficient.

Tags: clipmarks, web, delicious, blog

Blog focussed on cutting oil imports!!

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 22:29:50 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Of all the things we could do in this world to fight terrorism, help the environment, create jobs, lower oil prices, boost the economy, open a world of amazing possibilities...devoting our resources to creating alternative sources of energy should be our number one priority.

I believe it should be a national (and global) mission that takes on greater focus and passion than when we committed to putting people on the moon.

There is no question we can do it. There is no question people want it. There is a major question about why we're not doing it!

Clip Source: cutoilimports.blogspot.com

Cut Oil Imports Blog

This blog is focused on boosting America's national security by reducing foreign oil imports. We promote US-based alternative energy (i.e. solar energy, wind power and ethanol). Blog authors are Will and Corndog.

Tags: energy, alternative energy, oil, blog, solar, hybrid, ethanol

kick-ass blog post on clipmarks!

Wed, 24 May 2006 14:09:51 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Thanks to whoever wrote this!

Clip Source: chitchatnciao.blogspot.com

You have to visit this site to see just how great it is. You can read news clippings "clipped" by other members; comment on their clips if you like; clip your own finds and share them or keep them private; and so much more. Members consist of a very mature and intelligent group of folks from all over the world. Try it, you won't be disappointed. I've been addicted since I signed up! I have enjoyed reading other points of view which have widened my interests and knowledge. The Clipmark team owners not only participate in conversation but are always online and graciously accept ideas from their members on how to enhance the product to make it the best.

Tags: clipmarks, blog, review

Butt dust...mommy, what is butt dust?

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:13:39 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: from tavislaborde's blog...this is funny (and apparently true)

i only wish we could find out how the mom answered

Clip Source: weblogs.sqlteam.com

A visiting minister during the offertory prayer:

"Dear Lord," he began with arms extended and a rapturous look on his
upturned face,"without you we are but dust..."

He would have continued, but at that moment one very obedient little
girl (who was listening carefully for a change!) leaned over to her mother and asked quite audibly in her shrill little girl voice,"Mommy, WHAT
is butt dust?"

Church was pretty much over at that point..

Tags: travislaborde, blog, funny

travislaborde says clipmarks is the "coolest thing on the Internet"

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:11:24 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: thanks for this great blog post!! travislaborde's clipmarks are here: http://clipmarks.com/clipper/travislaborde/

Clip Source: weblogs.sqlteam.com

Clipmarks

If you have not yet tried Clipmarks, you owe it to yourself to give it a look. The URL is: www.clipmarks.com This is a twist on the "social bookmarking" theme, where you can do a bit more than bookmark and comment and tag. You can "clip" the content as well. You can create a single "clipmark" containing content from many different articles you've found on the web. Then of course you can follow tags or people or whatever - to find related content. I think it's the coolest thing on the internet. Anyway, I clip lots of stuff, and if you'd like, you can subscribe to an RSS feed of my postings, at this URL: http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/travislaborde/ Of course, I'll clip my blog posts from now on. Hmmm... Should I clip my blog posting about clipping? I think not. I'll clip any NEW blog posts I make in the future. Travis

posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:07 AM

Tags: travislaborde, clipmarks, review, cool

Bush urges supporters to get out and blog

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:58:20 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: I like the last sentence: "groups...that got internet sites..."

there's some english for ya!

Clip Source: www.micropersuasion.com

"One of the things that we have to value is that that we do have a media, free media that's able to do what they want to do and I - you ask me to say something in front of all the camera here [laughter]. Help over there will ya? I just got to keep talking and word of mouth, there's blogs, there's internet, there's all kinds of ways to communicate which is literally changing the way people get their information and so if you're concerned I would suggest that you reach out to some of the groups that are supporting the troops, that got internet sites and just keep the word moving."

Tags: bush. blog, politics

What's the point of social studies? A student's perspective...

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:12:02 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: very interesting point of view from a student (not sure what grade he's in). i just recently started reading Kazu's blog (http://kazublog14.blogspot.com/ ), but i really enjoy the honesty and subject matter. an honest perspective from a student growing up in california. props to the web for making it possible to be exposed to this.

Clip Source: kazublog14.blogspot.com

what's the point of social studies!?!

Like the title says. You just memorize some crap, like when the Aryans invaded, or things Columbus brought back with him, and then you never use it. It's useless! The info just sits in your head and takes precious memory from your brain that you can use for more important stuff, like remembering to feed your dog. I think schools should use the one hour wasted on social studies for more productive, useful-for-life subjucts, like organization.

Tags: school, social studies, education, kazu's blog, blog