Month: December 2004

Update: According to the TVC Alert, the national cell phone directory will used to provide a wireless directory-assistance service and not sold to third parties. Cell phone owners will have to opt-in. ————————————– It appears …

Today I’m giving a presentation entitled, “Blogging @ Your Library: Finding, Reading, and Creating Library Blogs” to the Fox Valley Library Council. For the first half of the session, I’ll give a powerpoint presentation introducing …

If you ever have to conduct medical research, you are probably already aware of PubMed, the free medical literature database from the National Library of Medicine. Now there is a new service called HubMed, an …

&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp Today’s Wisconsin State Journal has a font page story about blogs. UW Law School blogs are featured prominently. According to the story, “At UW-Madison, the law school seems to be a leading …

From the E-LawLibrary Weblog: Brayton Purcell, a California law firm, filed a lawsuit against another law firm when it discovered that the defendant’s Web site had posted a significant amount of content from the firm’s …

Wisconsin wetlands is the topic of the latest Tap the Power from the Legislative Reference Bureau Library. Wisconsin’s wetlands serve many important functions, including fish and wildlife habitat, water quality protection, flood storage, and erosion …

A couple of notices regarding the Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service: It will be unavailable from December 10th, 2004 till January 3rd, 2005. With the start of the 2005-06 legislature session, all subscriptions for notification from …

This month, Madison, Wisconsin was awarded fourth place in the Center for Digital Government’s Top 10 Digital Cities for the 125,000-249,999 population category. The annual study examines how city governments are utilizing digital technologies to …

It seems that a lot of people are asking – “What’s a blog?” Recently, Merriam-Webster Inc announced the top ten Words of the Year 2004 and number one on the list was “blog” The list …

Sometimes it’s hard to tell if a Web source is legitimate or not – even for the BBC. According to the TVC Alert: On Friday, the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal chemical plant accident that …