Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Last summer, I received an email from Academia.edu with a link to an AI-generated podcast it had created based on an article I wrote about law faculty scholarly visibility. I listened, and I wasn’t impressed. The AI narrator mischaracterized my arguments and even fabricated a plug for Academia.edu’s platform as though I had said it. …
Feedspot, a social feed reader that curates news feeds from online sources, has recently compiled a list of the Top 80 Wisconsin Law Blogs. What a great round-up of content from legal experts in the Badger State. I’m honored that WisBlawg appears as #2. The ranking is based on Relevancy Blog post frequency, freshness, total …
Feedspot, a social feed reader that curates news feeds from online sources, has recently compiled a list of the 60 Best Law Librarian Blogs and Websites. What a great round-up of content from an impressive list of law librarians of all types! I’m honored that WisBlawg appears as #3. Chances are good that you can …
Legal blogs and law firm websites can be great sources of legal insight and current awareness, especially on local issues. However, this content is easy to miss if you’re not a subscriber. Fortunately, there are a couple of useful tools to help you find this content: WisLawNOW is a syndicated network of Wisconsin legal bloggers …
This summer, the State Bar of Wisconsin is launching a new online community of Wisconsin legal bloggers, called WisLawNOW. This community, which brings together blog content written by State Bar of Wisconsin members under a single website, has been developed in partnership with LexBlog, a legal blogging network. The State Bar is actively onboarding member-bloggers …
Notice anything new? Both the UW Law Library website and blog, WisBlawg, are featuring a fresh new look this fall. They offer a cleaner, more mobile-friendly design that more closely aligns with the UW Madison campus and Law School sites. Credit for the redesign goes to our Reference & Technology Librarian, Emma Babler with advice …
A new study in the latest edition of The Reference Librarian explores the use of blogs by academic law librarians. In “An Exploratory Examination and Critique of Academic Law Librarian Blogs: A Look into an Evolving Reference Communication Practice,” author Grace Jackson-Brown of Missouri State University “demonstrates how academic law librarians use blogs as a …
Looking to stay current on issues on of Wisconsin law? Check out the list of Wisconsin legal blogs in the latest Inside Track from the State Bar of Wisconsin. Blogs are arranged by title, affiliation, and subject area. I found several new ones that I’ve added to my subscriptions. And I’m pleased that WisBlawg is …
Scholarly blogs can be a very good source for legal and other research but identifying them from among the multitude of web content can be difficult. A new search engine called the ACI Scholarly Blog Index now makes that task a little easier. The site indexes scholarly and authoritative blogs from experts in all fields …
The Wisconsin Law Journal recently launched a website redesign. The layout is very clean and attractive and offers lots of web 2.0 features such as alerts, RSS feeds, Twitter and Facebook feeds and more. One thing to note, however: If you previously subscribed to any of the WLJ RSS feeds, you’ll need to resubscribe now …