Year: 2005

Google just released a beta version of a new mapping service called Google Maps. Wow! It’s clear, easy to use, and just plain nice. Check out my results (below) when I entered the address for the UW Law Library. So what makes Google Maps different from other online maps like Mapquest? A couple things. According …

Looking for information about a Wisconsin business or nonprofit organization? Try searching the Department of Financial Institution’s Corporate Registration Information System. CRIS contains information recorded by the DFI such as legal business name, date of registration, current status (incorporated, organized, merged, dissolved, etc.), statutory entity description (corporation, llc, cooperative, etc), name/address of registered agent, and …

Here are two State of the Union items: askSam.com has a free database of the 2005 State of the Union address Whitehouse.gov has the State of the Union Web cast Source: Law Librarian Blog

The February issue of WSLL @ Your Service from the Wisconsin State Law Library is now available. Highlights include citing early Wisconsin Reports; legal blogs; and February celebrations.

It’s not news, but it’s worth a reminder that Wisconsin briefs are available on the Internet. The collection is generated from scanned images created by the Wisconsin State Law Library. The UW Law Library has made these electronic documents freely available from our Web site. The Wisconsin Briefs collection contains briefs for all published Wisconsin …

The Center for Digital Government has recently released the results of its 2004 Digital States Survey. The survey is a comprehensive study on best practices, policies and progress made by state governments in their use of digital technologies to better serve their citizens and streamline operations. Wisconsin placed 25th. For a copy of 2004 Digital …

Search engine A9 has added thumbnail photos taken from the street to their online yellow pages. Currently, only businesses in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Chicago, New York City (Manhattan), Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland & San Francisco are included, but other cities will be added. Wonder when they will get to Wisconsin? How did they do …

The Dane County Legal Resource Center has recently redesigned their Web site. Note that the URL is new also. According to the February edition of the DCLRC Docket, there are more new pages to come, including publications and forms, as well as information about DCLRC’s collection and services. And if you haven’t done so already, …

This month, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau’s published a series of informational papers which are now available on their web site. There are 90 papers all dated January 2005. The papers are organized into the following categories: GENERAL FUND TAXES PROPERTY TAXES AND LOCAL FINANCE PROPERTY TAX RELIEF TO MUNICIPALITIES PROPERTY TAX RELIEF TO INDIVIDUALS EDUCATION …

Google recently announced that they are beta testing a new video search engine. Funny thing is – there’s no video. It is actually is more of a tv listing search engine which contains still images and some closed caption text from recent tv programs. But useful, nonetheless. Perhaps you remember seeing a story on a …