Check out the August 3, 2005 issue of the Wisconsin Law Journal for a useful guide to “Statistical Web sites by the numbers.” The article contains annotated links to authoritative statistical sites in a variety …
Month: August 2005
Lexis Updates to Include Shepard's Alert, Spell Check, Etc.
Coming Soon to LexisNexis (From News for Law School Faculty and Staff): Shepard’s Alert – Receive updates to any Shepard’’s report, including statutes. Set up an Alert directly from your Shepard’’s report or from the …
Search Engines Don't Overlap
Search Engine Watch reports on a new study which found that the results from most search engines do not overlap with other search engines. It found that for first page search results, 84.9% of total …
State of the Blogosphere Reports
Technorati recently reported some interesting figures their State of Blogosphere reports. The report offers the following summary on the topic of blog growth: Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links …
Linking Landline and Cell Phones
Last month, RCA unveiled a new product for linking landline and cell phone use: the RCA Cell Docking System. The New York Times reviewed this new technology Dial a number and press Home, and you’re …
Second Invisible Web Class to be Offered
It seems that the Conquering the Invisible Web class which I’ll be teaching next week at the Wisconsin State Law Library was overbooked, so we’ve decided to offer a second section next month. The new …
Milwaukee Bar & Thomson West Open Learning Center
In catching up on my print reading, I noticed the following announcement in The Lawyer’s PC: “Thomson West Opens New Learning Center with Milwaukee Bar.” The article is available on Westlaw (22 No. 18 LAWPC …
Review of "The Law Firm" Reality Show
Law.com has a review of the first installment of NBC’s “The Law Firm,” which has “something no other reality TV show has: a behind-the-scenes look at real trial lawyers in action on real cases. ” …
Forbes Reminds Readers About Databases Free at Public Libraries
Kudos to Forbes for reminding readers about the many wonderful databases available at no cost to researchers from their public libraries. The author writes: [Public libraries] offer Net access to an increasingly wide range of …
DOJ Launches National Sex Offender Public Registry
The Department of Justice recently launched a National Sex Offender Public Registry with which users can submit a single national query to obtain information about sex offenders. Wisconsin is one of about 20 states currently …