Year: 2005

This morning, I’m teaching a class at the Wisconsin State Law Library entitled, “Conquering the Invisible Web.” The class will be repeated on Wednesday September 21st, although I’m told that this section is full also. I will introduce the concept of the invisible (and visible) Web, explain what can and cannot be found in the …

From Cindy May’s Recommended Readings, LLAW Newsletter, Summer 2005 Brown, Cynthia L. “Online Legal Research Billing Policies.” Legal Information Alert 24(1):1, 4-6, 15 (January 2005). The author requested sample online legal research billing policies via the law-lib discussion forum. In this article, she describes what she learned from the many variables she found in such …

Thinking about starting a blog? Check out the free webinar, “Blogs for Lawyers: Building an Audience to Build Your Practice,” hosted by blawgers Dennis Kennedy, Tom Mighell and Raza Hasan from FindLaw. The webinar will cover: How blogs can help attract clients to your law practice How blogs can showcase your expertise and establish you …

Legal Technology has an interesting article on ways to use your iPod for business applications, such as voice recording and on-the-go language translation. Source: Inter Alia

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 …