Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
In his article, Free Court Case Docket Monitoring, Paul Bush of Legal Dockets Online offers tips on how to automatically monitor court dockets at no cost. The article covers Federal District and Bankruptcy Courts, US Supreme, State (including Wisconsin) and Local Courts.
From Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week introduced Hospital Compare, a Web site that provides healthcare consumers with information on how well the hospitals in their area care for adult patients with certain medical conditions. The site is intended to help consumers compare the quality of care hospitals …
Shortly after Yahoo increased storage size of their free email accounts to 1 gigabyte, Google announced that it is increasing Gmail storage to 2 gigabytes. That’s a lot of email! Sources: Findlaw Tools of the Trade & Google Weblog
The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau is doing some awesome things with RSS. The latest is LRB Podcasts, or audio posts. So far, there are six posts, but look for more with the RSS feed. Arden Rice discusses the Tap the Power relating to Tourism and Economic Development Robin Kite discusses the Public Trust Doctrine of …
The City of Madison is introducing, in beta testing mode, impressive database called the City’s Legislative Information Center. The database provides “quick and easy public access” to the city’s legislative documents. The Legislative Files Search section includes ordinances, resolutions, appointments along with their status (passed, failed, referred) and date introduced. The Meeting Agendas & Minutes …
InfoWorld has an interesting article on a new corporate trend: the use of “enterprise” blogs and wikis to as internal knowledge sharing and collaboration tools. Adopters include Disney, Hewlett-Packard, General Motors, IBM, Intel, Microsoft. (What’s a wiki?) From the article: “Blogs and wikis play opposite roles,” says Martin Wattenberg, a researcher on the collaborative user …
The Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) has compiled a database of billboard and other outdoor advertising images, like this one for the Wisconsin State Fair. Alpha browse by topic or company name or search by keyword, year, agency, advertiser and/or product category. For a little advertising history, try Duke University’s Emergence of Advertising in …
The Wisconsin Historical Society has put together a Dictionary of Wisconsin History. The project is an off-shoot of the Society’s Turning Points collection which documents important events in Wisconsin history. Source: The Scout Report