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Useful Web Sites
Your one-stop URL resource
URLinfo from FaganFinder is a terrific resource — just plug in a URL, and you can instantly connect to all kinds of information about that site — general registration information, related sites, cached pages, and much more. This is definitely a tool to keep around if you need to research a website.
Chris Sherman has…
Keep up with labor news
The Department of Labor is now offering free e-mail updates of newly available information on its website. This ability to make the research come to you will reduce the time you spend searching for it.
New research organization tool
The Archives Go Digital
The increasing number of digital records maintained by the National Archives will be stored in the Electronic Records Archives, which is scheduled to open by 2007. The massive project, which will consume over a million gigabytes of data, will be completed by 2011.
Research Site of the Day
Tara Calishain points us to OmniMedicalSearch.com, a meta-search tool for medical search engines. The site focuses your search on 15 medical search engines; you can also search for recent medical news or images here. A terrific application of the meta-search concept.
News That Comes to You
I never thought I’d say I like a news site as well or better than Google News, but it’s true — Topix.net is a terrific news resource. The folks over at Topix launched a new version of the site this week, with a new front page and a bunch of improved features. Topix crawls…
Compare health care quality
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Information has launched a new version of Quality Check, a site that lets doctors and consumers compare the quality of medical care at over 16,000 facilities nationwide. You can compare up to 6 organizations at the same time.
A WordPerfect Resource
Any lawyers still using WordPerfect out there? Anyone? Anyone? I know several lawyers still use the Corel product, but the numbers are getting smaller. I imagine that resources for WordPerfect users must be hard to find, so that’s what makes A Common Person’s WordPerfect Macro Manual so great. I recently sat in an airport and…
Self-help for your clients
I have been very late in reporting this new site, so I suggest you take a look at it ASAP, to catch up with everybody else. Michael Lowe, a Dallas lawyer and friend of mine, has created RecordHelp.com, a site that provides information to individuals on expunging certain criminal records, without a lawyer’s help.