Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From the Wisconsin State Journal: The city of Madison’s long-stalled wireless Internet project is back online, with officials on Thursday promising a Wi-Fi network Downtown by March. Cellnet, an Atlanta firm, breathed new life into the initiative – originally promised by spring 2005 – when it agreed to finish the work that was started by …
Findlaw’s Tools of the Trade newsletter for October has a useful piece on How Employers Can Survive the New Technological Poker Game of Employee Blogging. The article explains how off-duty blogging by employees can affect business and offers suggestions for developing a blogging policy.
If you are a regular WisBlawg reader, you know that I’m a big fan of RSS feeds. Receiving content via RSS in my RSS reader, Bloglines, has been a tremendous time saver. But, I know that RSS isn’t for everyone. That’s why WisBlawg offers an email subscription in addition to the RSS feed. And from …
Federal Filings Alert is a weekly report on selected new cases filed in U.S. District Courts, nationwide, compiled by WANT Publishing Co. Cased are divided into topics including antitrust, copyright, equal employment, patents, product liability and trademarks. A new Alert appears on Monday of each week (excluding holidays when it appears on Tuesday). Dockets are …
This month’s Marketing Treasures, a newsletter about library marketing, has a good piece on the importance of getting to know a user’s needs before making the standard “library sales pitch.” From the conclusion of, “Promotion Gems: Forget the Slides” Your goal during a presentation to a prospective library user is to find out how the …
From Milwaukee’s JS Online: Taxpayers will pick up the cost of defending two legislators embroiled in an open records fight with Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager. Legislative leaders agreed Tuesday to hire Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek to represent Sen. Dave Zien (R-Eau Claire) and Michael Best & Friedrich to represent Rep. Scott Gunderson (R-Waterford). They set no …
From Web usability guru, Jakob Nielsen, comes Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes. The mistakes include (See Nielsen’s site above for elaboration): 1. No Author Biographies 2. No Author Photo 3. Nondescript Posting Titles 4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go 5. Classic Hits are Buried 6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation 7. …
Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article about the growing problem of “splogs”- or spam blogs. (Article is also available to Wisconsinites via Badgerlink’s ProQuest Newstand) Spammers have created millions of Web logs to promote everything from gambling Web sites to pornography. The spam blogs — known as “splogs” — often contain gibberish, and are …
Thanks to the Shifted Librarian for sharing some slides of ProQuest’s forthcoming keyword RSS feeds. Soon, in addition to email, you will be able to choose RSS delivery of new documents matching your search terms in the ProQuest databases to which your library subscribes. I, too, think that once ProQuest has released customizable RSS feeds, …
Law Librarian Blog, part of the Law Professor Blogs Network, has started a new featured called “Spotlight on Law Librarians.” I think that this is an excellent idea. Sharing information about ourselves will not only make us closer as a profession, but will inform others about the valuable services that law librarians can offer. That’s …