Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
InfoWorld has an interesting article on a new corporate trend: the use of “enterprise” blogs and wikis to as internal knowledge sharing and collaboration tools. Adopters include Disney, Hewlett-Packard, General Motors, IBM, Intel, Microsoft. (What’s a wiki?) From the article: “Blogs and wikis play opposite roles,” says Martin Wattenberg, a researcher on the collaborative user …
The Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) has compiled a database of billboard and other outdoor advertising images, like this one for the Wisconsin State Fair. Alpha browse by topic or company name or search by keyword, year, agency, advertiser and/or product category. For a little advertising history, try Duke University’s Emergence of Advertising in …
The Wisconsin Historical Society has put together a Dictionary of Wisconsin History. The project is an off-shoot of the Society’s Turning Points collection which documents important events in Wisconsin history. Source: The Scout Report
I recently learned that U.S. law students, faculty and staff are once again eligible to receive individual passwords for Quicklaw, as known formerly as Quicklaw America. Quicklaw, which merged a few years back with LexisNexis Canada, is a Web-based resource that offers over 2,500 databases of law, news and information from Canada, the United States, …
The Terry Schiavo case has everyone thinking about living wills. The UW Law School Elder Law Clinic is offering an opportunity to create a living will at no cost during their Advance Directives Fair in the UW Law School Atrium next week, April 4th-8th. Hours are Monday 11-2, Tuesday 10-12, Wednesday 1-5, Friday 10-3. This …
The Terry Schiavo case has everyone thinking about living wills. The UW Law School Elder Law Clinic is offering an opportunity to create a living will at no cost during their Advance Directives Fair in the UW Law School Atrium next week, April 4th-8th. Hours are Monday 11-2, Tuesday 10-12, Wednesday 1-5, Friday 10-3. This …
From the DCLRC Docket (April 2005): Dane County Bar Association Grants for Worthy Causes program has awarded DCLRC [Dane County Legal Resource Center] grant funding for our subscription to Shepard’s Public Access and supplies for the Small Claims Assistance Program. Thank you, DCBA, for helping to support our services!
The Denver Post reports that the email marketing company, OptInRealBig.com has filed for bankruptcy. The company cites costly legal fees its battle with Microsoft, which claims OptInRealBig.com illegally spams computer users. According to the article, the company made $15 million a year sending 15 million e-mail messages a day. Source: TVC Alert
Looking for a WiFi hot spot to connect your wireless laptop or PDA? With WiFiHotSpotList.com, you can find out where the hot spots are near your home or business. This is also great resource for travelers. Simply enter in an address to get a list of nearby hot spots. Or browse by location. WiFiHotSpotList.com identifies …
From TVC Alert: The cover story in the current Washington Lawyer discusses the pros and cons of Weblogs, and how they are taking off in the legal profession. The article ends with a briefly annotated list of prominent legal blogs.