Month: June 2005

Information Today has a very interesting article on anonymous library cards. Like a retail gift card, these cards are issued anonymously with a cash deposit and do not require any personal identification. Sounds like an intriguing concept for ensuring patron privacy and lending to out of town patrons. From the article: With an anonymous library …

From Robert Ambrogi’s Law Sites: Anyone interested in blawgs as a phenomenon within the legal profession should read the results of the readership survey conducted by Bruce MacEwen for his blog, Adam Smith, Esq. The results are interesting for what they reveal about Bruce’s readers, but even more so for the glimpse they offer into …

Legal Ethics Blogger, Ben Cowgill, reports on his recent communications with the Kentucky Attorneys’ Advertising Commission about the treatment of law-related web logs under Kentucky’s lawyer advertising regulations. Apparently, “advertisement” is defined as any communication that contains a lawyer’s name “or other identifying information”. All such communications are to be submitted to the Attorneys’ Advertising …

Larry E. Ribstein of University of Illinois College of Law has written a very interesting paper entitled, “Initial Reflections on the Law and Economics of Blogging” (April 2005, 19 pages) It is part of the University of Illinois Law and Economics Working Papers series. If you are interested in the economic and legal implications of …

I recently learned that Marquette Law School has two new resources available via RSS. Library M. Usements, the Law Library’s blog, contains library and legal news Marquette Law Daily is a RSS feed from the Law School with links to news stories mentioning the school

ABC has gotten into the podcasting game with feeds for Nightline, Good Morning America, The Afternote (politics), and several other programs. You can listen the programs via the Web and/or subscribe to their podcast feeds. Source: AbsTracked

NAISCO, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, has created a brief on the The Privacy Implications of Instant and Text Messaging Technologies in State Government. There is some interesting content here – and not just for state agencies. If you use IM or text message to share personal data, you should be aware …

As promised, I’ve compiled a list of law libraries using RSS feeds for projects other than blogs. Please let me know if I’ve missed any and I would be glad to add them. This list is considerably shorter than my list of law library blogs – dubbed “The Shucha List” by Vancouver law Librarian Blogger …

TIME Magazine has a story on Wikipedia, the free open-source encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The world’s largest online encyclopedia, controversial Wikipedia has 500,000+ entries in English alone. The author also discusses wikis a business application: A wiki is a deceptively simple piece of software (little more than five lines of computer code) that you …

According to NBC15, WisconsinEye is scheduled to begin broadcasting in January. A “state-wide version of C-SPAN,” the public affairs television channel will broadcast state legislative activities.