Year: 2005

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 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 Search indexes blogs by their site feeds, which will be checked frequently for new content. This means that Blog Search …

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. The article offers tips about patents and searching and links to free and fee-based patent Web sites, online tutorials, and …

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 was to be invited by another Gmail user. But now Google has opened it up and anyone can request a …

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 in today’s post attempt to shed light on the question: “Who is blogging?”

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 bicameralism in Wisconsin.

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, filed a civil complaint last week against Zien and Rep. Scott Gunderson (R-Waterford) after they declined to give her office …

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 to Amazon. When available, these features are listed in the “Inside this Book” heading. To see these features in action, …

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.

The Wall Street Journal Online has a useful article comparing blog search engines. It includes a handy chart which breakdowns the features and usability of each search engine. Source: beSpacific