Month: August 2005

Friday, August 26th is Women’s Equality Day which celebrates the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. On Thursday evening from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m, the Wisconsin Women’s Network will host a celebration at the Capitol in the Senate Parlor. Their special guest is Genevieve G. McBride, …

I’ve mentioned it before, but it’s worth reminding that Washington & Lee Law School has compiled an awesome tool called Current Law Journal Content. CLJC indexes articles from current law journal using RSS feeds. The service is very robust. You can do all of the following: Display all the tables of contents for law journal …

USA Today reports on the unusual program at a Swedish library that allows you to “borrow” a real live human being. From the article: This weekend, nine people, including a homosexual, an imam, a journalist, a Muslim woman and a gypsy, will be available at the Malmoe Library for members of the public to “borrow” …

Last week, ABA’s Answers of the Week featured some interesting answers to the question: If you could go back and attend law school again, what opportunity do you wish you had pursued? Or what seemed like a big deal at the time but, looking back on it, you would not pursue again? Source: UBLaw Phoenix

The Third Branch has a nice article on the Wisconsin court system summer internship program for law students, which placed 32 volunteer law clerks in 19 counties and at the Supreme Court this summer. Highlights from the article: “It’s a lot of question and answer and give and take,”” said Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge …

Last week, Steve Matthews, law librarian at Clark Wilson LLP in Vancouver, announced the launch of RSS feeds for the firm’s publications. Kudos to Steve and Clark Wilson on realizing the use of RSS outside of the blogosphere! Steve described the project on the Slaw blog: With more and more email getting caught in spam …

As part of our continuing effort to highlight terrific databases available at no charge from local public libraries, I’d like to introduce ReferenceUSA Business. ReferenceUSA Business is a directory of over 12 million U.S. businesses. It contains detailed information including contact info, estimated sales, number of employees, Fortune 1000 ranking, credit rating, lines of business …

Today’s Wisconsin State Journal has a nice explanatory article entitled “Working on the Wikipedia.” Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute. The article appears on the front page of the Daybreak section. It doesn’t seem to be available on line yet, but will probably be available soon on the WSJ web site …

Robert Ambrogi reports on a recent article on the downsides of blogging from the Chicago Tribune. The article opens with one woman’s decision to halt her company’s 3-year-old blog. “I believe blogging is not profitable,” [she] said, “and there are better ways to connect with your clients.” The article warns businesses about jumping too quickly …

BlogPulse is a useful new tool that can help you evaluate the content and influence of a particular blog – who authors it, how active the blog is, how it ranks in comparison with other blogs, what it’s about, etc. Simply enter in a blog’s url to view it’s BlogPulse Profile. WisBlawg’s profile reveals our …