Site News 10:54 am
Greetings, folks!
So, in the course of migration from Podango, several of our podcasts had become corrupted. I have begun restoring the process from DVD backup, though it will take a while. Criminal Law has been fixed as well as Property Law — the others will need to be manually edited since our automated process for assembling the episode together with the intro and outro is gone.
I appreciate your patience!
Site News 1:59 pm
It pays to be a programmer sometimes.
I just finished writing a script to migrate our database so the podcasts, which previously pointed to the Podango feed, now point to a valid source location. You can now listen to our podcasts through the website or you can subscribe to the various classes at our feedpage — you can click the iTunes Subscribe button and it will add that feed to the list of your podcasts using iTunes as your podcatcher. You can find our feed list here: http://www.lifeofalawstudent.com/podcast-feeds/
NOTE: Subscribing through the iTunes Store will still be problematic as we have to speak with iTunes support to make that change for us and those types of requests usually take some time to process. So, we’d greatly appreciate it if you could pass along the word about the update.
Oh, and Happy New Year folks. 
Site News 7:22 am
Greetings, folks…
As of December 31st, 2008, our primary feed provider, Podango, decided to reorganize and switch from a free-based service to a fee-based service. In true internet fashion, they gave everyone about a weeks notice to switch everything over and forward their RSS feeds. Being in and out of the hospital after Christmas, needless to say I had zero time to accomplish this, so we’ll be having a period of maintenance ourselves while we switch all of our podcasts from podango feeds to another feed service or host the feed ourselves.
I want to stress that no content has been lost — we have all of our episodes, so we’re golden there… please just bear with us as we go through this period of reorganization.
Site News 11:53 am
It’s time for finals and, in the spirit of reviewing, Fitz found this great video on YouTube. Enjoy!
Site News 5:14 pm
Fitz, over at The Law Pod, has updated his iPod Touch and iPhone resource with the Constitution and the Amendments along with the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure. Interestingly, you can browse to the pages directly on your PC or Macintosh, but only with Safari (Apple’s browser) or Google’s “Chrome”, but only because it used Apple’s toolkit to develop it, so those two browsers support iPhone and iPod Touch formatted pages and features.
Thanks for the update, Fitz!
Site News 12:44 pm
Fitz, over at The Law Pod, has a great resource for your iPhone or your iPod Touch.
Law Pod’s web applications can be quickly and easily installed on your iPhone or iPod Touch by following the directions on the law pod home page. The Law Pod currently features the following web applications:
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
- Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
- Federal Rules of Evidence
Upcoming Law Pod web applications include:
- Model Penal Code
- U.S. Constitution + Amendments
- Federal Rules of Bankruptcy
- And Many More!
The Law Pod is a perfect companion for lawyers and law students.
You can find more information at Apple’s Website or, again, at The Law Pod. Thanks, Fitz!
News and Views 9:05 pm
In this episode, we let you know that our two new feeds are both finally up — Introduction to Criminal Justice is a 100-level Criminal Justice course for Delaware Tech and Criminal Judiciary is a 200-level Criminal Justice course at Delaware Tech. Both feeds should be up on iTunes shortly; however, in the mean time, you can subscribe to the feed through iTunes by going to our Feeds back and clicking on the iTunes icon next to the feed name.
Also, nominations for the 2008 Podcast Awards has begun! Please visit http://www.podcastawards.com/ and, under the Education topic, please nominate us! Part of the criteria for selection is the number of nominations received… You only need to nominate once and the period ends soon, so please lend us a hand with this!
Criminal Judiciary and Delaware Tech and Rob Wiltbank and Undergraduate 10:36 pm
In this episode of Criminal Judiciary, we get a brief overview of the history of our law and its English roots. Common law, civil law and criminal law and basic legal concepts are explained and we learn the different between “beyond a reasonable doubt” and “beyond a preponderance of the evidence.”
Just a reminder that in a couple of days, nominations for the 2008 Podcast Awards will be opening, we hope we can count on you to drop up a nomination for the Best Educational Podcast!
Site News 9:25 am
I just wanted to take a brief moment to recognize the 7th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center towers on September 11th, 2001. The injured and those who were lost and their survivors are in my thoughts today.
Delaware Tech and Introduction to Criminal Justice and Rob Wiltbank and Undergraduate 9:58 pm
Benjamin Franklin was once quoted as saying, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” There’s a balance that must be struck between maintaing individual rights while balancing them against the interest of public safety. In this, our innaugural episode of Introduction to Criminal Justice, we’ll be discussing the basic concepts of criminal justice and the judicial process.
I would like to remind our listeners that this podcast is part of our new undergraduate content — it is a 100 level course for the Criminal Justice program at Delaware Tech. We hope you enjoy our new shows! When you’re done listening, we ask that you stop by our website at http://www.lifeofalawstudent.com/ and check us out. On September 15th, we’re asking all of our listeners to click on the Podcast Awards banner on our website and nominate us for the Best Education Podcast… With close to 450 episodes, we feel we’ve earned it and hope that you do, too!
