Skype v. Gizmo
Bob Ambrogi has a nice summary of the difference between Gizmo and Skype, two VoIP services. (What’s VoIP?) I’ve used Skype but haven’t tried Gizmo. The call recording feature is intriguing, however.
Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Bob Ambrogi has a nice summary of the difference between Gizmo and Skype, two VoIP services. (What’s VoIP?) I’ve used Skype but haven’t tried Gizmo. The call recording feature is intriguing, however.
Who knew? – Batgirl was a librarian! A colleague noticed the reference to Wonder Woman in my bio and clued me into Batgirl’s career. Here’s the scoop from Batgirl was a Librarian: Barbara Gordon, the niece and adopted daughter of Police Commissioner Jim Gordon, graduated summa cum laude from Gotham State University with a degree …
In the wake of moves by two big-name tech bloggers, Law.com has an interesting article on how to value a law firm blogger. Note the response by Kevin O’Keefe: “These recent moves should be wake up calls to law firms with high-profile lawyer bloggers. Many of your high-paid marketing and PR people have not a …
From BeSpacific: Search Full Text of EDGAR Filings From Last 2 Years SEC: “This page allows you to search the full text of EDGAR filings from the last two years. The full text of a filing includes all data in the filing as well as all attachments to the filing. We are still developing this …
Nichole, a Madison librarian who volunteers with the Jail Library Group has compiled a fascinating Flikr collection of “things I find abandoned in books or stuffed on the book cart at the [Dane County] jail where I volunteer” This is a really insightful collection. There are snippets of letters, poems, drawings, etc. Worth a look. …
Here’s the title of a recent post over at Human Law: Discuss – Librarian law bloggers are more astute than top law firms marketing departments about the blogosphere Enough said, I think. Source: Law.com Blog Network
The UW Law School has put together a new edition in its Legal Studies Research Paper series (via SSRN). The following papers are available: (Bloggers take note of the last one) “The New versus the Old Legal Realism: ‘Things Ain’t What They Used to Be'” STEWART MACAULAY University of Wisconsin Law School “A New Realism …
Court Webcasting is a new project weblog from WV Supreme Court Clerk, Rory Perry. For a list of courts who webcast their proceedings, see the list on the right hand side of the page. (Note that the link to the WI Supreme Ct is broken. Here’s the right one.) Why should legal researchers watch these …
MADreads reviews a pretty funny sounding book called Yes Man about a man that literally said yes to everything for a year. Here’s the review: Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! By Sarah – Alicia Ashman on Nonfiction Yes Man – Next time a telemarketer asks if you’d like to learn more about their fantastic …
Law.com has created a guide to Best Practices for Legal Blogging. Why should you care? From the article: As the use of blogs as a marketing tool proliferates among lawyers, differences in quality between blogs covering the same topic will become evident. There are only so many blogs that prospective clients can read on a …