Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Wish that Web page had a nice short URL that you could write down or share with someone? Fortunately, there are a number of free URL shortening services that do just that. One of these services, notlong.com, has a very useful chart comparing features of many url shortening services. Source: beSpacific
The Spring 2004 edition of Class Action, the Association of Wisconsin Legal Administrators newsletter, has a nice article entitled “Are Wisconsin Administrative Decisions Available Online??” The article, written by Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin member, Carol Schmitt, gives tips on where to find decisions by agency.
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PCWorld has an interesting article about a virus that can infect cellular phones. “[The virus] spreads between mobile phones using a specially formatted Symbian operating system distribution (or SIS) file disguised as a security management utility… Once it has infected a mobile phone, [the virus] scans for other phones using Bluetooth wireless technology, then sends …
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A new tool from Thumbshots Ranking allows you to perform your own comparisons of selected popular search engines. Results are displayed visually, making it easy to see both the rankings and comparative positions of pages in search engine results. Search engine guru, Greg Notess, has run tests with the tool and discovered that the major …
LawLibTech has a nice summary of the buzz surrounding Gmail, a free web based email service from Google. Gmail accounts (if you can get one) offer an extremely large amount of space (1 gigabyte) and include a robust search engine for sifting through your messages. The catch, one that has privacy groups worried, is that …
Not new, but worth repeating: Listen to live streaming audio of the Supreme Court Oral Arguments. Please note that this feature is only available for arguments heard in the Supreme Court Hearing Room in Madison. See the Monthly Oral Argument Schedule for date and time of upcoming oral arguments. From the Wisconsin Court System Website
It appears that the Wisconsin Revisor of Statutes Bureau has plans to digitize all laws and statutes back to 1848 as well as prior versions of the Wisconsin Administrative Code. A definite schedule is not in place, however. According to Bruce Hoesly at the RSB: Basically we are scanning pages as time allows. We already …
According to an upcoming report by Delphi Research, over 40% of professionals are spending a large amount of time (7-8 hours per work week) doing computer-based searching. Not surprisingly, satisfaction levels are quite low with over 60% indicating that they are dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with their search experience. Source: beSpacific