On Saturday, WisBlawg celebrated its second birthday. No one brought in a birthday cake, but – hey – there was some coffee cake in the staff lounge this morning. I’ll take it.
Month: May 2006
Google Blog Search Adds Date Restrictors
Google has revved up it’s blog search engine with the addition of date restrictors. Go to the Advanced Blog Search page to search posts written within a specific date range. While Google blog search is …
A Blog as a Source for Legislative History?
If you’ve ever compiled a state legislative history, you know that determining legislative intent can be difficult. It looks like researchers may have another source from which to draw, a blog – at least in …
Lawbby – MySpace for Lawyers
“If MySpace is where teens and college students meet and mingle, Lawbby says it is “where lawyers mingle,” whether for business or pleasure. Like MySpace, users can create their own profiles and groups, post photos …
"Cookie Therapy Works Again"
From The Third Branch: Dodge County Judge Andy Bissonnette reports on the remarkable effect of a plate of treats in small claims court. Check out the P.S. – too funny.
Hmong Legal Glossary
From the Wisconsin Court System’s The Third Branch: The Director of State Courts Office in April published the first Hmong-English legal glossary in the United States. It defines more than 800 common court terms and …
LexisNexis U.S. & Canadian RSS Feeds
It seems that LexisNexis has unveiled some Canadian RSS feeds, including new Butterworths Titles, The Lawyers Weekly (headlines from the weekly legal newspaper), Supreme Court of Canada Service (case digests) and more. U.S. feeds are …
PC to Phone Calls Free on Skype Until Year's End
I’ve been a Skype user for a while. Skype (rhymes with “type”) is a proprietary peer-to-peer Internet telephony (VoIP) network. Basically, it allows you to call people for free using your computer to connect to …
Law Reviews & Journals on the Web
Thanks to Wendy Nobunaga from the USC Law Library for compiling a list of law reviews and journals on the Web. Codes indicate what is available at each site: F = Full-text A = Abstracts …
Turn Web page into a PDF Document
HTML2PDF is a nifty little tool that converts any HTML webpage into a PDF document. See today’s WisBlawg in PDF for example. I can imagine a few of uses for this tool: 1) To digitally …