Year: 2005

Anyone playing BlogShares, the fantasy stock market for blogs? I haven’t dived in yet, but it looks like fun. Players get to invest a fictional $500, and blogs are valued by incoming links. I’ve been following WisBlawg’s BlogShares profile for the last few months. It’s now supposedly worth $18,062.72. Ah, if only it were real! …

An update on the Milwaukee County Court budget cuts and future of Milwaukee Legal Resource Center from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: (full text available to Wisconsinites via Badgerlink) The Milwaukee County court system would get all of its abolished positions back, but only two-thirds of the money to pay for them, under a budget compromise …

A Wisconsin Law Journal editorial by the Milwaukee Bar Association Board of Directors reveals that under the proposed 2006 budget, Milwaukee County Circuit Court budget would be slashed by almost 25 percent. Among the many cuts could be the elimination of the county law library, known as the Milwaukee Legal Resource Center. According to the …

Automated phone systems are fine when you have a routine customer service inquiry, but sometimes you just want to talk to a real person. Good look getting through to someone though. Next time, take a peek at the Find-A-Human — IVR Cheat Sheet (USA) before you dial. This handy guide offers instructions for bypassing automated …

The JS Online reports that citizens in Jefferson have initiated a direct legislation effort to stop a proposed Wal-Mart SuperCenter. “The petitions call for a municipal ordinance that would require any developer seeking to annex more than 15 acres to the city to complete a series of costly steps before a project could be approved.” …

The New York Times reports that the White House has sued The Onion for unauthorized use of the presidential seal. Source: The University of Baltimore Law Library Weblog

According to an article in the Wisconsin State Journal, “confidential information on minors in the state’s Child Protective Services program has surfaced on a computer hard drive in Nigeria, and state officials say they can’t account for how the data got there.” It seems that an advocacy group called The Basel Action Network purchased the …

How many credit card offers were in your mailbox today? If you are like me, the answer is probably too many. The ones with the magnets are the worst since you have to actually open and pull them out before sending through the shredder. These credit card offers are not only a pain to dispose, …

If you haven’t been bitten by the podcasting bug yet and are wondering what it’s all about, take a look at the article in today’s Wisconsin State Journal, “Podcasting: It’s More Than Just Tunes.” The article does a nice job of explaining the technology, why some people are tuning in, and why others (including businesses) …

From the Wisconsin State Journal: The city of Madison’s long-stalled wireless Internet project is back online, with officials on Thursday promising a Wi-Fi network Downtown by March. Cellnet, an Atlanta firm, breathed new life into the initiative – originally promised by spring 2005 – when it agreed to finish the work that was started by …