Year: 2004

Google isn’t the only one beginning to digitize library collections. The Internet Archive has joined the crusade with their Million Book Project in hopes of digitizing a million books by 2005. It appears that only non-copyrighted works will be included and that full-text can be viewed at no charge. According to an Information World Review …

Today’s New York Times article, Customer Service: The Hunt for a Human, relates the frustration that many consumers feel when trying to contact an actual corporate consumer contact person. According to the article, many people try to outwit automated phone systems by pressing zero, yet still fail to reach an operator. But some savvy consumers …

Blawger Dennis Kennedy has compiled a list of the top legal blogs of 2004 with Best Overall Legal Blog going to BeSpacific.com (I quite agree!) Other categories include: Best Practice-Specific Legal Blog Best New Legal Blogger Best Legal Blog Sectors Funniest Legal Blogs Best Legal Blogging Experts Best Legal Blog Trends Legal Blog Trends to …

LexisNexis Mealey Publications and Conferences group now has an RSS feed for its top legal news headlines. There is no charge to subscribe. Source: inter alia

On of my favorite sites for finding sources of primary law on the Internet is American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO!). In addition to providing a very comprehensive list of links to freely accessible sources of law for the US, the states, Canada and Mexico, ALSO! also has links to law reviews, briefs, and more on …

Mary Ellen Bates has compiled a great list of suggestions for quickly finding the answers to strange research questions. In Searching for Quick Answers To Odd Questions, she instructs users to consult the topic-specific databases (a.k.a. the invisible Web) rather than using general search engines. This is the same advice that I offer in my …

TIME Magazine has made available its entire archive of articles since 1923 available via the Web. Although searching is free, the full-text of articles is only available with a subscription to the print edition of TIME. But before you subscribe, remember that the full-text of TIME since 1990 is available free of charge to Wisconsinites …

Quickly following the news of Yahoo! VideoSearch was the release of Blinkx TV Video Search. Despite its name, Blinkx also searches radio programs. But Blinkx goes a step beyond Yahoo! and other video search engines by using speech recognition technology to transcribe the broadcasts, thereby enabling users to keyword search the entire clip. Although the …

Robert Ambrogi of Law Technology News has compiled a list of “some useful, intriguing law-related sites that launched this year.” There is some good stuff here – many were new to me. Source: The E-LawLibrary Weblog

This month’s Site-tation from the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center has an informative article entitle, Lemon Juice, Cornstarch, and Microsoft: Invisible Ink And Your Documents. Originally published in the Summer 2004 issue of the Wisconsin State Bar Section of Law Practice’s Law Practice News, the article warns that MS Word documents can unintentionally reveal sensitive …