I came across this at the RIPS Law Librarian blog and I love the concept. Eureka for Jureeka?
It's a new Firefox add-on that "transforms legal citations in web pages into hyperlinks that point to online source material."
How many times have I come to the end of an assignment or paper and dreaded the task of creating footnotes for everything I have referenced within the paper? It would be great for online publishers and authors, depending on the ability of the system to find the best source to link to. If you could select sources such as legislation on ComLaw, onlne commentary from LexisNexis, book references to Google Books or cases on Austlii it may actually work? If not and it is completely random, searching acoss the www for anything with that citation, it could be a dangerous tool.
This is actually how I imagined wikis to work, before I used one. I thought that every word in a wiki article that corresponded with an article title would automatically become a hyperlink. I didn't realise that you had to identify works as hyperlinks.
I'll give it a go when I get a chance at home using firefox.....
Monday, February 16, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Executive salaries
How great is this?
President Obama wants to cap executive salaries at $500,000 for companies who take a bail out.
"We don't disparage wealth. We don't begrudge anybody for achieving success. And we believe that success should be rewarded," Obama said. "But what gets people upset — and rightfully so — are executives being rewarded for failure, especially when those rewards are subsidized by U.S. taxpayers."
Anyway you look at it, it just doesn't make sense paying an individual such outrageous salaries, regardless of the results they achieve. How can anyone in their right mind morally accept millions of dollars a year to run an organisation, especially in light of government bail outs and redundancies? If politicians are earning only hundreds of thousands to run our countries what is so special about corporations that they have to pay executives millions or billions?
Maybe the Australian government could follow his example.
I found this story on the Simple Justice blog and the comments made me smile, especially this one.
If the ostentatious show of wealth was a badge of honor before, the threadbare suit will be the indicia of fiscally-sensitive importance over the next few years.
I really hope so......
President Obama wants to cap executive salaries at $500,000 for companies who take a bail out.
"We don't disparage wealth. We don't begrudge anybody for achieving success. And we believe that success should be rewarded," Obama said. "But what gets people upset — and rightfully so — are executives being rewarded for failure, especially when those rewards are subsidized by U.S. taxpayers."
Anyway you look at it, it just doesn't make sense paying an individual such outrageous salaries, regardless of the results they achieve. How can anyone in their right mind morally accept millions of dollars a year to run an organisation, especially in light of government bail outs and redundancies? If politicians are earning only hundreds of thousands to run our countries what is so special about corporations that they have to pay executives millions or billions?
Maybe the Australian government could follow his example.
I found this story on the Simple Justice blog and the comments made me smile, especially this one.
If the ostentatious show of wealth was a badge of honor before, the threadbare suit will be the indicia of fiscally-sensitive importance over the next few years.
I really hope so......
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Catching up
I finally found time to do a bit of catch up on my current awareness reading via RSS Feeds today. This is what I found:
CCH has released a White Paper called Professionals and web 2.0. It provides the results of a survey of Asia Pacific professionals including legal and accounting and their use of web 2.0 technologies.
A list of 250 Top Australian Blogs. I am looking forward to visiting some of them at home over the next few weeks....
The RBA has reduced the interest rate to 3.25% - yeah and the government has announced a further stimulus package and most of us get $950 - yeah again!!
CCH has released a White Paper called Professionals and web 2.0. It provides the results of a survey of Asia Pacific professionals including legal and accounting and their use of web 2.0 technologies.
A list of 250 Top Australian Blogs. I am looking forward to visiting some of them at home over the next few weeks....
The RBA has reduced the interest rate to 3.25% - yeah and the government has announced a further stimulus package and most of us get $950 - yeah again!!
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