Month: July 2004

Here is a blurb from Law.com’s article, Blogs Dot the Litigation Landscape, about the recent trend of blogging from the courtroom. Michael Jackson has one. Martha Stewart paid top dollar for hers. And the Justice Department got one as a gift in its antitrust trial against Oracle Corp. Web sites dedicated to a specific trial are …

Update (8/3/04): Gary Price, of ResourceShelf, emailed me the other day – very cool. His shared with me that his favorite alert tool is WebSite-Watcher. The cost is $30. He also reminded me that Feedster offers an email alert service. ———————— Some of my favorite tools are Internet alert services – where you choose what …

From:  beSpacific “A University of Texas at Austin study evaluating how often 30 newspapers refresh their respective website content indicated that ‘only 12 updated their home pages frequently, and the rest made few or no changes during the day.’ [Link]” According to the article: The 12 newspapers with the most updates during the period studied …

Update: This article is now available electronically on the Wisconsin Law Journal web site. Link now appears in text below. —————————– For some good advice on search engine alternatives, check out “Beyond Google-Alternate Search Engines Enhance Research” in the July 21, 2004 issue of the Wisconsin Law Journal. The author is Bev Betula, Vice President …

Blogger JD posts 7 Things RSS is Good For.  They are: 1.  Saving time 2.  Convenience 3.  Access to a richer pool of material 4.  Zero in on the info you want 5.  RSS can serve as an alert service 6.  RSS levels the playing field 7.  RSS drives conversation Read more at jd’s New Media …

The bloggers have been busy at the Democratic National Convention. Check out this informative post from Ernie the Attorney: If you want to keep up with the goings on at the DNC shindig in Boston, you should consider the many weblogs that are covering this convention. Start with Convention Bloggers, which has a comprehensive list …

National Public Radio has jumped on the RSS bandwagon and is now offering feeds for the following: NPR Top Stories NPR U.S News NPR World News NPR Business News NPR Health & Science News A number of local news feeds are also available. Source:  Library Stuff

The Wall Street Journal has an article entitled Law Professor’s Web Log Is Jurists’ Must-Read summarizing the buzz around Ohio State law prof, Douglas Berman’s blog, Sentencing Law and Policy  The blog chronicles the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court Blakely v. Washington ruling on the nation’s courts. From the article: “Last week, the blog was …

For all those that would prefer to receive WisBlawg updates via email, we’ve just added a neat little tool which lets you do just that.  Scroll down to the bottom right to subscribe. You will receive an email once a day with all the new WisBlawg posts for that day.  If you prefer to be updated more …

Sometimes just reading what the media has to say isn’t enough.  Wouldn’t it be nice to hear what others are saying?  Enter Feedster and Day Pop. Both search engines combine traditional news sources with individual commentary available in blogs and RSS feeds.  And you can also receive alerts for new content as it is added.  In Feedster, …