What do the Justice Department, UNC, and law school applicants have in common?
All three are finding new uses for the “tools of the Internet.” Here are three recent stories that caught our attention but didn’t warrant full posts:
1. The Justice Department now tweets. Last week, the DOJ revamped its website and joined Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and Twitter. If you want to stalk Attorney General Eric Holder, you can do that here.
2. UNC law held moot court in the virtual world of Second Life last month. It’s hard not to mock, said one tipster:
You have got to be kidding me. Here’s an idea: do one in real life! Everyone will be sitting at a computer at the same time anyway - why not just have them all sit in the same room, say the UNC mock court room that was built specifically for this purpose, and actually do it in person? I’m not planning on being a litigator, but from all those episodes of Boston Legal I’ve watched I’m pretty sure that speaking is a pretty significant part of the litigation process.What good could possibly come from this? Learning how to type out pre-prepared questions without being distracted by the naked half raccoon man that inevitably will show up and streak across the courtroom?
We think real-life Playboy bunnies at UNC might prove more distracting.
3. Law school applicants are using social networking sites to cozy up to law school admission officers. According to Kaplan, 48% of law school admission officers surveyed say that they or a fellow admissions officer at their school have received a “friend request” on Facebook or MySpace from applicants. The officers did not reveal whether this helps or hurts applicants’ chances.
And with that, we urge you to keep it real, ATL readers.
Justice Dept. on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter [CNET]
Students Explore Mock Trial Options in Virtual World [UNC School of Law]
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They all think Monica Goodling is a real lawyer?
I 'tweeted' on the bench today. I don't think anyone heard.
yawn
Holding the first virtual trial is pretty damn cool. Nice UNC
I think twitter is pretty pointless already, but can't even begin to imagine how incredibly boring the DOJ twitter feed must be.
What's a "twitter"?
Kash,
Get the lobster out of your ear or whatever. It was the Mock Trial Team, not Moot Court. Thx babe.
People spoke in the virtual UNC mock trial. It's amazing, computers can be used for something more than just typing! The "tipster" is an idiot.
-Someone who thinks that virtual mock trial is pretty silly
I have recently forayed into the world of second life. I find many of the young men there intriguing.
Why is this article timestamped Oct 7?
"Billion-Dollar" Charlie Nesson teaches in Second Life. that's all you need to know.
First UNC students thought that the butterface had "looks" (I shouldn't even give her the benefit of being called a butterface. Those rock hard balls on her chest don't make her body very attractive either), and now they're doing geeky law things in some geeky virtual reality world (or whatever the eff it is). To sum it up, I hope to never have to meet or interact with a UNC law student.
They're all heels?
They're all morons?
Not that it matters much given the dearth of quality-control on this blog, but unless I'm living in another reality today is not Wednesday, October 7.
The last I checked, speaking had very, very little to do with the litigation process.
Time for tipster to turn off Boston Legal.
If only I had thought of extending a friend request to admissions officials. Like an idiot, I instead focused on my GPA and the LSAT.
Follow my tweets in second life at www.dorkusmaximus.tweet.tool
We need to bomb the homeless back to the stoneage!
-DOJ Secure
Virtual mock trial? really?
UNC, go sit in the corner and don't come out until you're ready to apologize for what you did.
UNC for lamest law school EVER!!!!!!!!