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If, like me, you often find yourself searching for judicial opinions online, particularly to freely-available complete versions, and especially to Federal Circuit Court and Supreme Court opinions, then you’ve probably encountered the opinions at resource.org. I particularly like to link to these versions on my syllabi, because the paragraphs are numbered and then I can [...]

This was harder than it should have been as the instructions could be clearer that two separate downloads are required. I’ve summarized here:
I assume you have ssh or command line access to your host. If not, you could accomplish the same thing using ftp, but you’ll have to pay attention to what directory you upload [...]

For the last year I advised a team of School of Information Masters students (Joshua Gomez, Travis Pinnick, and Ashkan Soltani) on their research into the privacy practices of popular websites. Today they have publicly released their findings on their website: knowprivacy.org.
They found that there is a mismatch between consumer expectations and website privacy [...]

The UC Berkeley School of Information eScholarship Repository contains publications, preprints, papers, and reports about work conducted under the auspices of the I School. Watch that space.

The Flip Video UltraHD camcorder records files in a .mp4 format. I wanted to convert them to Ogg Theora format. How do you do that? I did far too much searching for an answer to this question for the answer to be this easy:
apt-get install ffmpeg2theora
and then:
ffmpeg2theora vid00001.mp4
That outputs a file called [...]

As part of the fallout from Facebook’s rollout of its Beacon ad service, some users of Blockbuster’s site sued Beacon-partner, Blockbuster, in the Northern District of Texas, for among other things, violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act. Blockbuster moved to compel arbitration of the dispute, relying on the Terms and Conditions on its [...]

50 great examples of infographics – FrancescoMugnai.com
(tags: infographics visualization)

Privacy activists rightly complained about whitehouse.gov’s use of YouTube videos for President Obama’s weekly addresses, as it allowed a private third-party company to use cookies to track visitors to a government web site. The whitehouse.gov site appears to have responded to these complaints but in so doing has adopted a flash format that is [...]

I had several hundred (over 1000) HTML files in a directory. They were unfortunately encoded in Windows-1252 and I wanted them all converted to UTF-8, but I was not willing to open the files one by one or feed their names to a script (there’s too many) so I needed a script that would [...]

I hate it when I can’t easily find an opinion online: Google, Inc. v. American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc., (N.D. Cal. Apr. 18, 2007).