A few weeks ago I was invited to participate in a survey on the diversity of niche bloggers. The results of the survey appear at Mapping the Diversity of the Blogosphere: A Bloggasm Case Study. …
Month: September 2006
Article on the Legality of RSS
EContent has an interesting article on the legality of harvesting content from RSS feeds for publication on your own site. The author explores both sides of the debate about whether it’s legal/ethical for “non-content creators …
Database of Articles by Law Librarians
PIC, the AALL Publishing Initiatives Caucus, is pleased to introduce a new and improved database of articles published by law librarians. These articles appeared in legal publications that are read by practicing attorneys, legal administrators, …
A More Pefect Union Authors to Speak at Wisconsin Book Festival
Earlier this week, I posted about the Wisconsin Humanities Council’s statewide discussion series entitled, A More Perfect Union: To Establish Justice. It appears that the series’ authors will be also appearing at the Wisconsin Book …
Statewide Discussion Series, A More Perfect Union: To Establish Justice
Once again this year, the Wisconsin Humanities Council is sponsoring a statewide discussion series entitled, A More Perfect Union: To Establish Justice. From the web site: This year’s A More Perfect Union theme, To Establish …
NLJ Article on Judges Citing Blogs
There is an interesting article in the National Law Journal about judges citing to blogs. The article notes that since 2004, judges have cited blogs 32 times in 27 different cases, including Justice John Paul …
Free Loislaw Workshop at MLRC
The Milwaukee County Legal Resource Center has announced that their is still time to sign up for “Using Loislaw.com!” From WSLL @ Your Service: This class will be presented Thursday, September 28, 2006, from 12:15 …
LegalTrac Interface Changes
The Wisconsin State Law Library newsletter recently ran an article describing the interface changes to the LegalTrac database. What’s LegalTrac? A database containing citations for articles in law reviews, specialty law publications, bar association journals, …
Early Bookmobiles & Traveling Libraries
Today’s Odd Wisconsin pays homage to Wisconsin’s earliest bookmobiles and traveling libraries. This 1910 International Auto Wagon loaded with books is undoubtedly one of the earliest bookmobiles. There were also the mobile libraries of the …
Search 200+ Years of News & Magazine Articles
The big news today is Google News Archive Search, a searchable archive of articles that, in some cases, date back 200+ years. Some publishing partners include The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The …