INTERNET LEGAL
RESEARCH WEEKLY
April 17, 2005
Tom
Mighell
Welcome to Issue #187 of the Internet Legal Research Weekly, a newsletter that delivers relevant and timely legal research information, and other fun stuff, to your inbox every Sunday. If you like what you read, please forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested, and encourage him or her to do the same! To subscribe, all you have to do is visit Inter Alia and fill out the subscription form -- it's free!
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Become a Google Maps Power User
Want to create your own custom Google Map? Head over to myGmaps, which will allow you to create and save 10 maps with up to 10 locations on each (so far). Another cool way to use Google Maps!Even more cool stuff from Google
Google has been providing definitions of words for some time (just type in define:[word]) to get definitions of the word from other web sites). Now you can also get words in other languages, because Google Definitions has gone multilingual. Google is also catching up to some of the other search engines that will answer your questions. With Google Q&A, you can ask most any question of Google (try where is Addis Ababa?), and the answer(s) will appear at the top of the results page.Blawgs of the Week
Here's the latest crop of law-related weblogs to add to your newsreader: First, the Legal Ethics Forum is a fantastic group blog written by John Dzienkowski (of the University of Texas School of Law), Brad Wendel (of Cornell Law School), and John Steele (of the UC Berkeley School of Law). My fellow TECHSHOW friend Wells Anderson is a whiz at Time Matters time and billing software, and he has decided to share his wisdom with others at 1234Tips, the first weblog devoted to Time Matters, featuring tips on how to use and customize the software. Welcome to the blawgosphere, Wells! Marc Marling is a partner in the Savannah office of the Hunter Maclean firm, and he is blogging about maritime law and commerce in the 21st century at Proctor in Admiralty. Urs Gasser is the self-titled blog of a Berkman Fellow at Harvard Law School, and his goal is to obtain "a better understanding of phenomena of the information society and of law's role in such a society."I have long admired the TechnoLawyer community for its terrific resources on legal technology -- if you aren't receiving one (or more) of the great e-mails available there you're already behind in the game. Now Neil Squillante and the gang have stepped it up a notch, and are publishing regularly at the TechnoLawyer Blog. Lots of good things being discussed there -- don't miss out! Law Department Management is a new member of the Law.com Blog Network. Its publisher is Rees Morrison, who has been consulting with law departments for some time to help them manage themselves and their outside counsel. Finally, another "business of law" blog. This one is Managing the Business of Law, and it's co-written by Jim Logan, the founder of Accelerate Business Group, and Richard A. Hall, a California lawyer.
Here's how to quickly burn a CD using Windows XP. Just open Windows Explorer by right-clicking on the Start Menu and selecting Explore. Also have your My Computer folder open. In Windows Explorer, select the files you want to burn to the CD, and either drag them to your CD drive's icon, or right-click on each file, Select Send To, and pick your drive. Windows will copy the file to a holding area; when you have added all the files you want to include on the CD, double click the CD drive icon, and in the left-hand task pane select Write these files to CD. The CD Writing Wizard will appear -- just follow the instructions and you've got a new CD!
Do you have a question about searching the Internet or your computer in general? Drop me an e-mail at tom(at)inter-alia(dot)net – I’ll post your question (don’t worry, I won’t use your real name) and try to get an answer for you!
Legally Relevant – Sites on the Internet
New Zealand Legal Information Institute
Associated with the Australasian Legal Information Institute, NZLII provides free access to loads of New Zealand legal information. In the middle you'll find a listing of newly updated news and database additions. But the left margin holds all of the valuable information; the first box provides links to cases and legislation from NZ courts and legislative bodies. Other databases on topics such as law reform and treaties are also available, as well as a catalog of links organized by subject, including education, government, law journals, legal services, Maori law, and more.Plagiarism.org
The information contained on this page is concerned mostly with educating people about the problem of plagiarism, mostly in the educational context. These statistics and facts are used as a gateway to using products developed to combat plagiarism on the Internet, Turnitin and iThenticate. Both of these services offer some unique ways of determining whether content has been lifted off the Internet, or some other source. This isn't a legal research web site, but it's still pretty interesting.Schoolbug
Speaking of schools, Schoolbug will point you to free school data to just about every public elementary, middle, and high school in the country. The information provided is basic; the address and phone, plus the demographic breakdown of the children attending each school. A good reference source.AllBusiness.com
As you might imagine, this is a site about running a business. Small business, to be precise. You can download forms (most for a fee), get business advice on a wide variety of subjects including consulting, contracts, human resources, franchise, incorporation, insurance, among others. You'll also find business guides, news and information, directories, and business products. You can even receive regular updates from the site via newsletter or RSS feed.Supreme Court Monitor
This is part of the vast Law.com empire, where Tony Mauro and others regularly provide information on the latest doings of the Supremes. To read the stories you have to register, but it's free. It's just news and commentary here, but that's really all you need from a site like this, isn't it?
Finally, your fun and useful fix for the week:
If eBay is not quite your speed, maybe Swappington's is -- there you just swap items that you don't want, and trade them for stuff other people don't want.
Play Tobby, and help the puppy get back to where he started from:
Well, that’s it for Issue #187 – I hope you liked it! If you did, pass this along to anyone you think might be interested, and encourage him or her to subscribe. Also, feel free to drop me an e-mail any time if you have questions, or if you have websites or other topics you want included in a future issue.
Tom Mighell
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