There has been a lot of discussion lately about Twitter and its applications for the legal profession. Twitter is a free micro-blog service in which people answer the question “What are you doing?” in 140 …
Month: May 2008
Sunil Rao's Review of Professional Convict's Tale in the International Journal of Legal Information
I’m pleased to share that my colleague, Sunil Rao, has written a review of the Professional Convict’s Tale: The Survival of John O’Neill In and Out of Prison which appears in the latest International Journal …
Harvard Law Faculty Votes for 'Open Access' to Scholarly Articles
Earlier this month, the Harvard Law School faculty unanimously voted to make each faculty member’s scholarly articles available online for free, making HLS the first law school to commit to a mandatory open access policy. …
The Gargoyle Winter/Spring 2008 Edition Online
The Winter/Spring 2008 edition of The Gargoyle is now available online. The Gargoyle is the alumni magazine of the University of Wisconsin Law School. Here is a list of featured articles: Studying the Police The …
SearchMe, A New Visual Search Engine
Thanks to my colleague, Cindy May, for alerting me to a neat new visual search engine called SearchMe.com. It is currently in beta. As you enter your search, categories appear across the top which you …
State Bar Convention Session Generates Discussion on Blogs as Legal Scholarship
Last week I had the honor of presenting at the State Bar of Wisconsin Annual Convention here in Madison. I spoke at a Litigation Section program entitled “This Blog’s for You” along with Mark Herrmann …
Google to Blur Faces in Street Views Maps
In response to privacy concerns, Google will be blurring out any human face appearing in Google Maps street views. Street views are available in Google Maps for both Milwaukee and Madison. Simply do a Google …
In Memory of Roy M. Mersky
We were saddened to learn of the death of Law Library titan, Roy M. Mersky. Law Librarian Blog reports: Professor Roy M. Mersky died yesterday from complications of a recent fall. A member of the …
Library Book Vending Machines
From SF List (via Tame the Web): Starting sometime in April, library books will be available at Contra Costa County BART stations via “ATM style lending machines.” A new program called Library-a-Go-Go, along with the …
Gather All Google Apps, RSS Feeds, Gadgets Etc. with iGoogle
Do you iGoogle? iGoogle is a personalized Google start page (similar to My Yahoo!) where you can aggregate all the Google resources you use on your online desktop – search, gMail, Google Calendar, etc. It …