Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
In honor of Valentines Day, I recommend a great blog I recently discovered called I Heart Tech. The blog from Law Tech Partners has lots of good “Technology Tips and Advice for a Lawyer’s Life and Business.” (See postcard auction)
The February issue of the Wisconsin Lawyer is now available. Highlights include: The Economics of Practicing Law Piercing the Corporate Veil Frivolous Sanction Law in Wisconsin
Friday’s Capital Times has a thought-provoking article on whether the proliferation of Madison City Council member blogs could violate Wisconsin’s open meeting law. So far, four of the 20 council members are blogging.
Technorati’s latest quarterly State of the Blogosphere is out and findings show that the blogosphere is continuing to expand at an amazing rate. Some of the more interesting stats: The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day 9% of …
From the Baltimore Sun (free registration required): If you’re two weeks late in returning a book to the Baltimore County library, you’re likely to get a phone call. If your book is four weeks overdue, you’ll receive a notice in the mail. And if you’re Philip Akbar Shabazz, you’re sent a letter that begins: “You …
From inter allia: Have a long message to send to someone, and just don’t feel like typing it? Enter WaxMail, a program that records your message in MP3 format and then attaches it to an Outlook message. And it’s free, too.
Some Gmail (Google email) users now have access to nifty new tool – an embedded chat client. Unfortunately, it hasn’t made its way to my Gmail account just yet. But, according to SearchEngineWatch, it’s pretty sweet. For those visual learners like me, check out the Gmail chat help for an enlargement of the image below.
Do your searches often yield too many or too few search results? Or would you just like to brush up on your search strategies? If so, help has arrived. The UW–Madison campus librarians have created a series of nice, short narrated tutorials that offer strategies for achieving better search results. The tutorials were created using …
From Bad to Great: Transforming Your PowerPoint Presentations is the title of a free Web Cafe seminar from Office Depot. Although the live semimar was offered in January, you may replay it at any time. Of, if you are like me and don’t want to take the time to listen to the whole thing, take …
From the New York Times: America Online and Yahoo, two of the world’s largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay from 1/4 of a cent to a penny each to have them delivered. The senders must promise to contact only …