http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dhaeusermann Daniel Haeusermann\'s Weblog Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:39:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Interesting post on the Wired Blog Network about the website www.drabandabic.com. Some interesting aspects of that story: a) It's astonishing how quickly users create content (in casu: hoaxes) and how fast this gets noticed by large mainstream media (search for dragan dabic website on Google News). Karadzic was arrested no more than ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dhaeusermann/2008/07/23/dragan-dabic-aka-radovan-karadzics-fake-website/ This blog is officially still on hold (until I'm finished with my PhD thesis ...), but this is worth posting immediately: The Swiss Federal Supreme Court -- at least its 2nd Social Security Law Division (II. Sozialversicherungsrechtliche Abteilung) -- has started to quote Wikipedia in 2007: In a decision from May 3, 2007 ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dhaeusermann/2008/05/20/federal_supreme_court_wikipedia/ A funny observation: It's now 2.40 p.m., and for about an hour now dozens of cars are performing a chorus of horns in downtown St. Gallen where I live. This is extrordinary: Weddings (an occasion where our Italian immigrants love to do this) take place on Saturdays in Switzerland. There's no soccer game involving Italy, Croatia, Serbia, or Turkey either. ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dhaeusermann/2008/02/17/honk_for_kosovo/ Happy new year to all of you out there who read my blog! In 2007, among others, a new form (or genre?) of literature has emerged, namely satire in the guise of an online product review. Here’s a fine example (hat tip to James): reviews of the BIC ballpoint pen in ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dhaeusermann/2008/01/02/product_review_satire/ Niklas Luhmann explaining his Zettelkasten: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu3t_zzHJJs. (Hat tip to Andreas Böhm via Claudia.) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dhaeusermann/2007/12/27/zettelkasten/ Today I saw that our Public TV network has been posting videos on its own YouTube channel for 10 months. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/user/SchweizerFernsehen. (They've been publishing content over their own website for a while now.) Given the fact that Swiss TV viewers (including me) pay a mandatory fee of 400 dollars a year, I can only welcome this added service. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dhaeusermann/2007/12/10/swiss-public-tv-posts-videos-on-youtube/ Last week Urs Gasser and John Palfrey were kind enough to hold a session on their forthcoming book Born Digital for the students of the University of St. Gallen. I happily accept their invitation to further conversation beyond the printing press, so here are two afterthoughts to that session: (I ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dhaeusermann/2007/12/04/digitalnatives/ My colleagues from the Young Christian Democrats of the Canton of St. Gallen have lost their party's memory: Their web hosting provider has unwittingly deleted the whole content of their website, http://www.jcvp-sg.ch, including the history of the party and their regional sections over the past ten years. The provider believes ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dhaeusermann/2007/10/10/jcvp/ As Jusletter reports, the Swiss federal government proposes to repeal 11% of the federal statutes and to purge another 8%. 31 federal laws and parliamentary resolutions might be gone soon, together with 168 regulations. It's nothing new that laws are information themselves, and that they are prone to all the problems ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dhaeusermann/2007/09/10/switzerland-cleaning-up-its-laws/ A man convicted of multiple murder sought permission to buy the flight simulating software "X-Plane", arguing that he wanted to leave his prison cell at least virtually from time to time. The request was refused by the prison authority for reasons of security: Due to the high data capacity of ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dhaeusermann/2007/08/18/flight_simulator/