Year: 2004

Watch out for Spit – Spam over Internet Telephony! Learn more about it at CBS.MarketWatch.com’s First Spam, now Spit Here’s a bit from the article: If you can send a thousand e-mails with a click of the mouse, you can do the same with a phone call, if you’re using the Internet as your telephone …

Seven Ways to Save Time Searching from search expert Tara Calishain of ResearchBuzz! is full of useful search advice. Her recommendations include: 1. Use the right search engine 2. Focus. Focus. Focus. Use special syntax 3. Use monitoring services 4. Use current awareness services as extra eyeballs 5. People are also great search engines 6. …

A recent report from the USC Annenberg’s Center for the Digital Future has identified the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet’s First Decade of Public Use Among the findings from Year Four of the Digital Future Project: • Internet access has risen to its highest level ever. About three-quarters of Americans now go online. …

From BoleyBlogs! IS GMAIL A-OK? The ABA Journal ereport asks in this article if Google’s Gmail email service presents privacy risks to attorneys beyond those present in most email programs. Why is Gmail different from all preceding email services? Because its revenue model relies on providing relevant adds, which requires Google to electronically scan all …

Stay current with BNA’s Web Watch, a free weekly service from BNA which compiles sources of free online resources in selected hot legal topics. Links are provided to government, industry, and academic resources on selected topics spanning the breadth of BNA coverage. New subjects will be posted weekly, and new resources will also be added …

With the ease of Copy and Paste in writing these days, wouldn’t it be nice if there were a tool that could run your text through Google and inform you where it appears on Web? There is and it’s called Quote Finder. Just paste your text into the search box and Quote Finder lets you …

From Findlaw’s Modern Practice: Cameraphones: Innocuous Gadgets Or Workplace Threats? Employers have become wary of these fun little devices because they have the potential to create big privacy problems on the job. Not surprisingly, we’re being asked to advise clients on employees’ use of cameraphones. More employers are realizing the need for a formal policy …

It seems that Google has been digitizing content from selected print magazines and books. Thanks to search expert, Tara Calishain, there is now a search interface for this print content. She has also developed two bookmarklets which set up Google Alerts to monitor new magazine or book content. [What’s a bookmarket?] Source: TVC Alert

There is a fascinating article in the latest LLRX.com from Jessamyn West, a public librarian from Vermont who writes about her experiences at the DNC as a credentialed blogger. **Commentary: A Librarian Blogger at the DNC Jessamyn West is a librarian, blogger and advocate for public libraries. She also has the distinction of having been …

Frank Barnako of CBS Marketwatch reports on a recently released study in Life Without Net is Unbearable From the article: Researchers investigating how people would react to not having access to the Internet had a tough time getting started. “It was incredibly difficult to recruit participants as people weren’t willing to be without the Internet …