Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From ReadWriteWeb: Starting next month, Meebo will be rolling out ads in the IM service that invite users to access quizzes, polls, long-form video and other resources. Users will be able to opt-in to sponsored experiences that are targeted to them specifically, based on their demographics and behavior. It’s unclear if the ads will carry …
Steve Matthews over at Stem Legal has written a very useful article on managing your online reputation. He writes: Online reputation management isn’t a question of blogging gone badly, or someone posting drunken pictures in Facebook (although both are possible). It’s a business issue for every lawyer who practises, and it requires some form of …
BBC News has an interesting article on the increasing use of YouTube videos as criminal evidence. Source: law.librarians
Here’s another nifty new Google tool: Google Translate. It can translate selected text or an entire web page. I could see this being really useful for viewing foreign laws on the Web when English translations aren’t available. Of course you wouldn’t rely 100% on the translation, but at least it would give you the gist. …
There is an interesting article entitled “Are You Podcasting: Current Uses of Podcasts in Law Libraries” in the May issue of AALL Spectrum. Although they haven’t caught on as quickly as blogs have (there are currently 116 law library blogs), some law librarians are experiment with podcasting. The article highlights the podcasting projects from numerous …
I’ve been reading a lot about Twitter lately. NYT explains: For anyone unfamiliar with the latest trends in technology, “Twitterers” send and receive short messages, called “tweets,” on Twitter’s Web site, with instant messaging software, or with mobile phones. Unlike most text messages, tweets — usually in answer to Twitter’s prompt, “What are you doing?” …
E-Mail Is Out With Today’s Younger Web Users reports Information Week. For most of us in the business world, e-mail is an integral part of our work lives. But for the millenials — the generation between ages 13 and 24 — e-mail is for old people…. For younger Webizens, e-mail today is like sending a …
The New York Times has an interesting piece on the increase in spam in the last six months. According to the NYT: – Spammers are “conscripting vast networks of computers belonging to users who unknowingly downloaded viruses and other rogue programs. The infected computers begin sending out spam without the knowledge of their owners.” – …
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Boing Boing reports that Judge Richard Posner is coming to Second Life. [What is Second Life?] From the New World Notes blog: … Judge Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit will take on avatar form to discuss the US Constitution in the era of apocalyptic terrorism…. I’ll …