Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
This morning I learned about two neat collaborative office tools: Writely – Word Processor (from Boing Boing): Google has re-launched Writely, the online word-processor they recently bought, in public beta. Writely does everything most things Word does, for free — and saves its output as PDFs and even RSS feeds (subscribe to a word-processor doc!). …
ALSO!, or American Law Sources Online, has long been one of my favorite Web sites. If you are looking for free sources of primary law in any federal or state jurisdiction, ALSO! is the place to go. But I recently learned that ALSO! has a full list of Uniform Laws & Model Acts too, along …
Studies show that most searchers locate only one in 3,000 of the Internet documents available to them. Want to increase your odds? Check out the NBI workshop, Internet Searches: How to Get Accurate and Reliable Information. The workshop is taught by a team of expert legal researchers, a.k.a. law librarians. I’ll be teaching a section …
Some of the scarier databases that my colleague, Bev Butula, covered in the Internet Research Workshop were those in the Investigating Individuals section. One of these is Zillow.com. Zillow offers free, instant valuations and data for over 67 million homes nationwide. Not just that, but it shows them on a hybrid satellite image/street map. Take …
You may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything for the last few days. I was out of the library teaching a workshop on Internet Research in Wisconsin. We had a very good group and most of them were excited to learn about new research resources and techniques. One gentleman even thanked us at the …
From ABA Site-tation: Ever wanted a map of counties in the United States? How about Congressional Districts? Areas with Water Discharge Permits? Distribution of monarch butterflies? All this and more can be found at nationalatlas.gov. Nationalatlas.gov has an interactive map making tool, which allows you to choose parameters by clicking checkboxes. Read more.
Dell has announced a recall of certain Dell-branded laptop batteries with cells manufactured by Sony. Dell will offer free replacements for these batteries. Under rare conditions, it is possible for these batteries to overheat, which could pose a risk of fire. From April 2004 through July 2006, the recalled batteries were sold with or sold …
Repost / Reminder: If you are looking to brush up your Web-based legal research skills this summer, you might want to consider attending a one day seminar entitled, Internet Research in Wisconsin. The seminar, put on by Lorman Education Services, will be held in Brookfield on August 16th & again in Madison on August 17th. …
According to Sifry’s Alerts’ August 2006 State of the Blogosphere, the blogosphere now measures over 50 million blogs (and counting!). Here are some other interesting findings: The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 1/2 months More than 2 blogs are created each second of each day There are about 18.6 blog posts per second.
If you have used any of the Wisconsin Legislature infobases lately, you’ve probably seen the following screen. In essence, it explains that the legislature is moving to a new infobase software platform called “Nxt.” Currently, when you link into one of the infobases, you get the intermediary screen above which gives you the option to …