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Josh, I had originally tried to make them weekly,
but without success. After your request, however, I
revisited the problem and was able to find a way around
my earlier stumbling block. Look for the amended post soon!
Upcoming Changes to Briefs Emails
For some time, the Dean of Students Office has been sending out a weekly "Briefs" email that outlines upcoming events at the Law School. This email has been largely constructed by hand, based on the Law School's rather archaic custom room scheduling program. Aside from the fact that this process...
Hi Daniel,
Thanks very much for your feedback -- my apologies for taking so long to reply, classes just started again this week so things have been a bit hectic.
First, a slight correction: you are indeed part of our community! We like to think of everyone who engages with us as part of the Law School community, whether they have a formal connection to the School or not.
All of our posts tagged "website redesign" can be found here: http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/electronicprojects/website_redesign/ (or by clicking on "website redesign" in the "categories" box above).
We've definitely been working on overhauling -- and pruning -- the information architecture in the new site. We think you'll be pleasantly surprised when the new site launches later this year.
As you'll see in previous posts, we'll be moving to Drupal as our content management system, which opens up some new possibilities for us in taxonomy, such as tagging pages by subject area. I don't believe cyberlaw is a category that we chose for this task (I think cyberlaw would probably fall under the broader "Intellectual Property"area), but we will probably revisit these terms once we get into beta testing.
We're always looking for new ways to make social media more useful to our site's users, and they will be much more integrated into the new site (the previous site was built in 2004, right on the cusp of the social media boom, so we've had to do a lot of tacking stuff on here and there). The wiki for student work is an interesting idea, we'll have to do some asking around and see how into it our students would be.
I hope this addresses your initial thoughts, but please keep 'em coming if you think of anything else. And thanks again!
It's Alive! The UChicagoLaw Twitter Feed
The Law School now has its very own Twitter account, which can alert you to newly added content from everything from our Faculty Podcast to our alumni magazine. If you're the curious type and are wondering how we accomplished this feat, read on. When we in the Communications department here at ...
Thanks for the feedback, Peter.
Just to clarify, the threading happens only within a single post.
Typepad's New Commenting Features - Help Us Test!
Typepad -- the blogging platform that hosts the Law School's blogs, including this one -- recently launched a beta version of a new commenting system, called Typepad Connect. Unlike the previous commenting system, Typepad Connect allows threaded comments, to more easily keep track of discussion...
Hi Kempton,
Thanks for the comment. Interesting idea, though I suspect Judge Posner's publisher might be less than enthusiastic. :-) But what we're trying to do with the "Ideas Are Everywhere" experiment is specifically about the passage of a physical artifact through physical space, and the serendipity of discovering exciting ideas in a place where you might not otherwise expect to do so. I agree that we could probably spread the ideas wider and faster if they were posted electronically -- that's why we have the Faculty Blog, after all (see http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty if you haven't already) -- but there's also a large signal-to-noise ratio in electronic distribution that may overshadow the simple pleasure of sitting down with an actual book and absorbing ideas that way. We're all about multiple methodologies here at Chicago. :-)
Two New Law School Sites
Last week, the Law School unveiled two new websites. One is an online version of our alumni magazine, The Record. The Record Online will contain many of the same stories as the print version of the magazine, but will enhance them with extras like audio and video, as well as the ability for our r...
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