Journal Sentinel state political reporters Steven Walters, Stacy Forster and Patrick Marley are blogging about happenings around the capitol at Capitol Bureau: State Politics. In the back-to-school spirit, they challenged readers to take a 2005-06 …
Month: September 2005
LRB Podcast on Federal Preemption of State Law
A new podcast from the Legislative Reference Bureau: Marc Shovers explains federal preemption of state law. September 12, 2005 ( 5.86MB, 6:24) An RSS Feed is available for all LRB podcasts.
Google Launches Blog Search
Google has finally created a blog search engine and, by most accounts, it’s already highly regarded. Like regular Google, it features a basic and an advanced search. From Google: How does Blog Search work? Blog …
Patent Sites for the Occasional User Article in Wisconsin Lawyer
The September issue of the Wisconsin Lawyer is now available on the State Bar web site. It includes an excellent article on Patent Sites for the Occasional User by UW Law Library’s own Jenny Zook. …
Google's Gmail Available without Invitation
You might recall that Gmail, Google’s email application, made big news when it launched more than a year ago because of its large storage capability – 2.5GB. However, the only way to get an account …
Preliminary Results of Law Library Blogs Survey Shared as Out of the Jungle Guest Blogger
This week, I’ve been invited to do a guest-blogging stint over at Out of the Jungle. Among other things, I’ll be sharing some preliminary results from my survey of the law library blogosphere. The findings …
Guide to Bicameralism in Wisconsin
The Legislative Reference Bureau has created a nice guide to Bicameralism: The Two Houses of the Legislature and How They Differ. The guide, which is available in PDF, provides a short overview and history of …
Attorney General Challenges Confidentiality of Draft Legislation
According the JS Online, “Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager’s assertion that two legislators have violated the state’s public records law could upend the way legislators and lobbyists make law.” According to the article: Lautenschlager, a Democrat, …
Amazon Introduces Statistical Comparison Features
It seems that Amazon.com has launched some pretty cool features of which I’ve only recently become aware; Concordance, Statistically Improbable Phrases and Text Stats are available for books in which the full text is available …
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Publishes RSS Feeds
I just discovered that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel publishes a bunch of RSS feeds. In additional to current top headlines, there are also topical feeds for politics, sports, local news, business, technology, traffic, and more.