Year: 2005

HeinOnline has recently completed its retrospective conversion of the Federal Register from volume 1 (1936) through volume 70 (June 2005). New content will be added as it becomes available. If you haven’t already discovered HeinOnline, I highly recommend that you take a look. It’s one of the best kept secrets in legal research. HeinOnline is …

The Wall Street Journal reports: In a legal case being watched closely by bloggers, an Internet company has sued the owner of a Web log for comments posted to his site by readers. . . Bloggers have been buzzing about the lawsuit, swapping links to Mr. Wall’s latest dispatches on the case and worrying about …

UW Law School Professor Gordon Smith has just created a new weekly podcast called Office Hour. From Prof. Smith: Office Hour is a weekly podcast, recorded every Tuesday in the office of Professor Gordon Smith of the University of Wisconsin Law School and the Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship. Gordon specializes in corporate and …

Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can’t Index announces The Onion.* “A year ago, Google offered to scan every book on the planet for its Google Print project. Now, they are promising to burn the rest,” John Battelle wrote in his widely read “Searchblog.” “Thanks to Google Purge, you’ll never have to worry …

Looking for a speaker for a conference or meeting? Take a look at The Speaker’s Wiki, a listing of speakers, their websites and affiliation, contact information, past speaking engagements and other important information to help conference organizers choose speakers to talk on important topics, including speakers resources. As a wiki, anyone is invited to contribute …

Holographic imaging has made its way to the courtroom. According to an article in Legal Technology, [H]olographic imaging. . . makes it possible to show such things as three-dimensional views of aneurysms, running automotive parts and structural failures. “For $450, you can project a 3-D image in the air of a section of a brain. …

This is orientation week at the UW Law School and, once again, the familiar buzz of students in the atrium is wafting up to the reference desk. As we embark on a new academic year, I thought it fitting to share a bit of law school history. The first UW Law School class graduated in …

This post is for fellow law library bloggers (past, present, and near future): I’m working on an article for Law Library Journal on the topic of blogs. It will be a piece on the state of the law library blogosphere: Who is blogging? What are we blogging about? Who reads our blogs? What technologies are …

To mark its 35th anniversary, the Wisconsin Historical Museum has opened a new exhibit called “Resistance or Terrorism? The 1970 Sterling Hall Bombing.” From NBC 15 News: (includes link to video of news story) “What the exhibit seeks to do is to provide a little of historical context and background, so visitors to the exhibition …

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a interesting piece on video bloggers (a.k.a. “vloggers”) in the Milwaukee area. (August 24, pg. A.1 – available via Badgerlink) Highlights from the article: From unbashful bloggers to proselytizing pastors, people are using inexpensive software and high-speed Internet connections to share video clips of their lives. As with many other …