Month: August 2005

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 of areas. Unfortunately, it is not available online. The article was written by Bev Butula, president of the Law Librarians …

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 new Alerts tab available on the research system. Spell Checking Feature – Use the Check Spelling link to identify search …

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 results are unique to one engine. The search was conducted by Dogpile, a metasearch engine that displays results from multiple …

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 in July 2005 The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months A new blog is created about every second, …

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 making a phone call on your home line. Dial and press Cell, and you’re routing the call through your cellphone, …

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 section is scheduled for Wednesday September 21, 2005 10:00-11:30 a.m. and openings are still available. The course is based on …

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 7) According to the article: Thomson West has partnered with the MBA to establish and support a Learning Center located …

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. ” Of the 10 lawyers left, eight are members of the California State Bar, seven live in or around Los Angeles, …

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 databases that don’t exist on the open Web and, because they reside behind a fee-based gate, don’t get indexed by …

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 included in the registry. However, according to the DOJ, data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia will …