Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Journal Sentinel state political reporters Steven Walters, Stacy Forster and Patrick Marley are blogging about happenings around the capitol at Capitol Bureau: State Politics. In the back-to-school spirit, they challenged readers to take a 2005-06 Wisconsin Blue Book quiz. Can you identify which legislator wore an Air Force bomber jacket for his official Blue Book …
A new podcast from the Legislative Reference Bureau: Marc Shovers explains federal preemption of state law. September 12, 2005 ( 5.86MB, 6:24) An RSS Feed is available for all LRB podcasts.
Google has finally created a blog search engine and, by most accounts, it’s already highly regarded. Like regular Google, it features a basic and an advanced search. From Google: How does Blog Search work? Blog Search indexes blogs by their site feeds, which will be checked frequently for new content. This means that Blog Search …
The September issue of the Wisconsin Lawyer is now available on the State Bar web site. It includes an excellent article on Patent Sites for the Occasional User by UW Law Library’s own Jenny Zook. The article offers tips about patents and searching and links to free and fee-based patent Web sites, online tutorials, and …
This week, I’ve been invited to do a guest-blogging stint over at Out of the Jungle. Among other things, I’ll be sharing some preliminary results from my survey of the law library blogosphere. The findings in today’s post attempt to shed light on the question: “Who is blogging?”
The Wall Street Journal Online has a useful article comparing blog search engines. It includes a handy chart which breakdowns the features and usability of each search engine. Source: beSpacific
HeinOnline has recently completed its retrospective conversion of the Federal Register from volume 1 (1936) through volume 70 (June 2005). New content will be added as it becomes available. If you haven’t already discovered HeinOnline, I highly recommend that you take a look. It’s one of the best kept secrets in legal research. HeinOnline is …
The Wall Street Journal reports: In a legal case being watched closely by bloggers, an Internet company has sued the owner of a Web log for comments posted to his site by readers. . . Bloggers have been buzzing about the lawsuit, swapping links to Mr. Wall’s latest dispatches on the case and worrying about …
UW Law School Professor Gordon Smith has just created a new weekly podcast called Office Hour. From Prof. Smith: Office Hour is a weekly podcast, recorded every Tuesday in the office of Professor Gordon Smith of the University of Wisconsin Law School and the Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship. Gordon specializes in corporate and …
Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can’t Index announces The Onion.* “A year ago, Google offered to scan every book on the planet for its Google Print project. Now, they are promising to burn the rest,” John Battelle wrote in his widely read “Searchblog.” “Thanks to Google Purge, you’ll never have to worry …