Year: 2005

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that two Milwaukee companies have been named to Inc. magazine’s “Inner City 100,” an annual ranking of high-growth companies in the nation’s distressed urban centers. The two companies are: HMB Contractors Inc., an excavating and demolition firm that began life a decade ago by plowing snow from residential driveways, and …

Here are the answers to yesterday’s UW Law Library National Library Week Law School Trivia contest: 1. In its history, where has the Law School NOT been located? Answer: C In a log cabin 2. What name did law students give to the gargoyle, saved as a memento of the original building, when the new …

Soon, podcasting enthusiasts will be able to textually search podcast audio recordings with Podscope from TVEyes. From the announcement: TVEyes, the real-time broadcast search provider, today announced Podscope®, the first engine to search within a Podcast. TVEyes’ Podscope, which makes every word searchable within a podcast, enables the audio indexing of podcast content, which is …

If you haven’t seen it yet, give Blawg Review a look. Among other things, it features a weekly roundup of posts from the blawgosphere. Here’s how it works: people submit blog posts that they feel are particularly clever or informative. The posts are then reviewed and commented upon by that week’s Blawg Review host blog. …

I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s Libraries in the Movies crossword puzzle. Check your results with the answer key. Today’s National Library Week contest features UW Law School trivia. Answers will be posted tomorrow. 1. In its history, where has the Law School NOT been located? A. In the Capitol B. Over a tavern C. In …

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According to the Wisconsin State Journal, the 2005 High-Tech Directory for the greater Madison area is now available from MG&E. The 160-page book lists nearly 460 biotech, medical device, computer-related and scientific consulting companies with combined revenues of just under $5 billion and more than 26,000 employees, or about 9 percent of the county’s labor …

In honor of National Library Week, Legal Dockets Online is offering free access this week – begins today and ends on April 17. The login is “nlw” and the password is “free”

This is National Library Week! Many of Wisconsin’s law libraries will be hosting special events including the Wisconsin State Law Library & the Dane County Legal Resource Center. Here at the UW Law Library, we will be having a workshops, displays, & daily contest. I’ll be posting the latter here on WisBlawg each day. Today’s …

In honor of National Library Week, two database providers, Gale & Xrefer are offering free access to libraries during the week of April 10th-16th. Gale: Multiple databases available for week including LegalTrac, InfoTrac, Health & Wellness Resource Center, Business & Company Resource Center, Associations Unlimited, etc. To sign up, visit Gale on April 10th. (Many …