The Internet Legal Research Weekly is out, and available for your review. Highlights:
Blawgs of the Day
- Way up north, Elder Law in Nova Scotia is penned by Sharon Reashore, a charter member of the Canadian Initiative for Elder Planning Studies. Welcome, Sharon!
- A group of Catholic law professors have begun publishing Mirror of Justice, a weblog interested in discovering how the Catholic perspective can inform our understanding of the law.
Brush up your Google
Need a refresher on using Google? Check out the Google Guide, which is maintained by Nancy Blachman, who is not affiliated with Google (but she’s a fan!). The guide offers tutorials on just about any feature of Google you’d care to use.
A look back at….January
If you missed any search engine news this past month, Chris Sherman rounds it all up for you in the Search Engine Milestones for January 2004.
Those ugly webjackers
It seems that spyware just keeps getting worse, and PC World agrees. In Help! I’ve Been Web-Jacked, we learn about nasty programs that install themselves on your computer, and are becoming increasingly resistant to removal.
I can identify — my father recently had a run-in with a browser hijacker called CommonName. For some…
Pinpointing your search
Gary Price is guest-writing over at SearchDay with the article A Better Search Tool For Finding Needles in Haystacks. He’s talking about the new NeedleSearch toolbar, a new utility that allows you to create your own search toolbar for any search engine on the Internet. Way cool — the problem is, it only works…
Internet Issues Via Audio
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard recently debuted AudioBerkman, offering audio pieces that provide “a different angle to understanding Internet issues.” The new clips will be offered every other Friday.
Goodies from Google
Mary Ellen Bates always has something interesting and useful to say — this time she’s saying it over at SearchDay, where she offers us someHidden Google Tools.
Blogs of the Day
- NPOBlogs bills itself as “News from People Who Are Getting Things Done.” It’s an aggregator that gathers weblog entries in various categories — environment, law & society, nonprofit sector, peace, politics, public policy, technology, and others — and brings them right to your desktop.
- Michael Arkfeld, the man behind the Digital Practice of Law blog,
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A newcomer to social networking
Orkut, a newcomer to this whole social networking thing, was designed by a Google software engineer. Danny Sullivan has a review of Orkut, which has had some periodic server problems since launching.
Right now, membership is by invitation only; if you do get invited, make sure you read this post over at Boing…
