Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 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.
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 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 …
The Winter 2006 edition of The Third Branch is now available. The Third Branch is a quarterly publication providing news of interest to the Wisconsin Court System. Highlights include: – Evaluation of caseload statistics – Update on judicial compensation – Opening of new Dane County Courthouse
Welcome to WisBlawg’s new home on the Movable Type platform. Please note that the URL has changed to http://www.law.wisc.edu/blogs/wisblawg/ I made the change for several reasons and chief among them, the desire to move off of Blogger. Besides not being very customizable, the credibility of many Blogger blogs is questionable. Because it’s a free service, …
Learn what your colleagues think about blogging in the ABA Litigation Section blogs poll: Blogs are certainly pervasive on the internet, and a slight majority of you (57%) read some sort of blog on a regular basis. However, creating and maintaining a blog is a different story: only 19% of respondents write their own law-related …
And now the “news” from the UW Law Library… There was a joyful reunion here today as 4 books that walked away from the New Book Shelf at the University of Wisconsin Law Library over 3 years ago returned home. Cataloging assistant Carrie Doyle had been searching for 3 of the books since November, 2001, …
Have you noticed some of the really cool features in Amazon.com lately? Although only available for books in which they have scanned the full text (you can tell by the “Search Inside” logo above the book’s photo), this number is growing rapidly. Back in September, I wrote about some neat statistical comparison features in the …
From DCLRC Blawg: To promote better citizen awareness of local government actions, public legal notices are now available on a statewide web site hosted by member newspapers of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. Notices will be accessible for 90 days after publication date. Some advanced features will be free until February 28, but require fee subscriptions …