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From Frank Barnako’s Internet Daily (MarketWatch): PBS to run Internet-only TV series The Public Broadcasting System is expected to announce Wednesday it will Web cast an Internet-only, downloadable series of TV shows featuring interviews with technology experts. The move follows by a few days, Britain’s BBC announcement it would Web cast a regular TV series …

From the New York Times: As part of an ambitious attempt to revive CBSNews.com with a broad array of free video news produced just for its Web site, CBS said today that it would also introduce a Web log to comment on CBS’s newscasts, both online and on air. To be written by Vaughn Ververs, …

Although they can be quite useful, fifty state survey of state statutes are notoriously difficult and labor intensive. When facing such a project, wouldn’t it be nice to know if someone has already compiled a survey for your statute? To find out, I’ve often turned to the excellent Subject Compilations of State Laws, an annual …

There is no doubt that the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court is a hot topic of conversation this week, especially in the blawgosphere. Reuters has an interesting article about the role of bloggers in the nomination process. Web logs likely numbering in the dozens provide a way for the thoughtful and the passionate to …

This month’s The American Lawyer has an excellent article on the value of law firm librarians. Despite predictions that they would become obsolete as electronic resources replaced print materials, librarians have become more vital than before. From the article: The survey results also show that, increasingly, librarians are contributing to the bottom line. As partners …

Related stories in both the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Capital Times caution bloggers about the dangers of sharing too much personal information. In particular, they warn that venting petty gripes or sharing partying and dating exploits can damage your reputation, especially to a potential employer. According to the Chronicle: You may think your …

It seems that the popularity of Legal Talk Network’s Internet radio shows has increased since they have become available via iTunes. LTN offers a RSS feed for its radio shows.

Over at Conglomerate Blog, Marquette Law Prof. Christine Hurt gives her take on the new eighteenth edition of the Bluebook.

Effective July 6, 2005, the Superintendent of Documents has issued a new internal policy (ID 73) entitled, “Harvesting Federal Digital Publications for GPO’s Information Dissemination (ID) Programs.” This policy governs both manual and automated harvesting of publications from Federal agency web sites for inclusion in the Federal Depository Library and National Bibliography Programs. Other Information …

Yahoo News reports that: Following a Supreme Court ruling last week that gave local governments power to seize private property, someone has suggested taking over Justice David Souter’s New Hampshire farmhouse and turning it into a hotel. . . [A] letter dubbing the project the “Lost Liberty Hotel” was posted on conservative radio show host …