Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From Yahoo News: A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband’s digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday… The woman used login information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when their characters were happily married, …
Know any students who write a great blog? Direct them to The Blogging Scholarship from Collage Scholarships.org. Or nominate them yourself. Last year’s $10,000 scholarship winner was a law student from Loyola.
SirsiDynix is offering two free webinars for librarians: Taming Technolust: Planning in a Hyperlinked World – Oct 22, 2008 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Michael Stephens offers ten steps for technology planning in our fast changing, ever-evolving information world. Tinkering in the Techie Toybox: Staying on Top of Consumer Technology – Nov 14, …
The next time you need to schedule a meeting, give Doodle a try. Doodle is free, although you may run into ads here and there. Here’s how it works: Create a poll – choose several possible times for the meeting Forward the link to the poll to the participants Follow participant responses online See the …
The folks at Social Science Research Network have been kind enough to share with me info about some recent enhancements. These features include a completely revised Simple Submission process, a new sign in process, and redesigned Author and Abstract Pages. See the announcement for more information. I recently spoke with SSRN pres, Gregg Gordon who …
Barco Law Library reports that the 2-year free PACER pilot program has been suspended pending evaluation. [What is PACER?] A notice went out that “GPO and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts undertook a pilot to provide free public access to Federal court records at 17 Federal depository libraries through (PACER) ….The pilot …
First it was a website, then a book, and now it’s a full-blown exhibit. “Odd Wisconsin” opens at the Wisconsin Historical Museum on October 3rd. From the website: WARNING! Objects Are More Intriguing Than They First Appear! How did a rock, a plastic pink flamingo, and a few strips of aluminum make history? Why did …
From Slashdot: Thomson Reuters, the owner of the Endnote reference management software, has filed a $10 million lawsuit and a request for injunction against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginia’s George Mason University develops Zotero, a free and open source plugin to Mozilla Firefox that researchers may use to manage citations. Thomson alleges that GMU’s Center …
The following post was written by my law librarian colleague, Bev Butula: A couple of weeks ago, I discussed the hakia search engine on my blog for the Wisconsin Law Journal. If you are not familiar with this engine, it uses semantic search technology. They look for quality results, recognizing that the most credible sites …
“A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction yesterday ordering Vice President Cheney and the National Archives to preserve all of his official records.” Read more at the Washington Post.