Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
If you need to visit the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus but could you a little help navigating your way, check out the new, interactive Campus Map. This is the best online map I’ve ever seen. You can click and drag to see other parts of the map, zoom in or out, measure distance, and mouse …
My colleague, Lisa Pfaff, passed on an interesting article this morning from Slate. In the article, Dead Plagiarists Society, author Paul Collins contemplates the use of Google Book Search as a tool to detect plagiarism in the literary tomes of yesteryear. Given the popularity of plagiarism-seeking software services for academics, it may be only a …
Mary J. Koshollek, director of information and records services at Godfrey & Kahn S.C. in Milwaukee has written an excellent article on evaluating websites in the November issue of the Wisconsin Lawyer. In Assessing Information on the Internet, Mary describes the whys and hows of evaluating the authority of Internet materials. Abstract: This article provides …
On Wednesday evening, WI Deputy Revisor of Statutes, Bruce Hoesly gave an interesting presentation to the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin on the new RSB web site. Besides guiding us through the ins and outs of the new NXT interface for the Statutes and Administrative Code, he shared some other interesting information. Did you know?: …
The New York Times reports that “airline passengers will soon be able to connect their iPods to in-flight entertainment systems and watch their favorite videos while traveling on any of six major carriers.” Air France, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Emirates, KLM and United Airlines will begin offering passengers iPod seat connections as early as …
I’m a big RSS fan. It’s a wonderful technology for current awareness, networking, benchmarking, and image monitoring. But, unfortunately, not every Web page that I want to monitor offer a RSS feed. That’s where “html scraping” services like FeedYes & Ponyfish come in. They allow you to create your own RSS feeds from almost any …
Are you a Badger fan with a RSS reader? Check out the UWBadgers.com RSS Feeds. Follow you favorite team by choosing top headlines, or pick an individual sport.
From What’s New from the Madison Public Library: The next computer recycling roundup is this Saturday, November 11, from 9 AM until 1 PM at the City Transfer Station, 121 E. Olin Ave, between the Alliant Energy Center and Goodman Field. This event is limited to home electronics ONLY. No computers from businesses. For more …
There is an interesting article in the October issue of the Duke Law & Technology Review entitled, When is Employee Blogging Protected by Section 7 of the NLRA? (2006 DUKELTR 17) From the article: Blogs present courts with a new context in which to strike the balance between employee and employer rights. This iBrief focuses …
Tom Mighell and Dennis Kennedy have compiled a good list of RSS Resources You Can Use: Automated Web Surfing for Lawyers in November issue of Law Practice Today. The article begins with an introduction to RSS and how to monitor information via RSS feeds using a newsreader (a.k.a. feed reader or aggregator). For the more …