Thinking of using one of the many toolbars now available from most of the major search sites? Read Toolbars: Trash or Treasures? first.
Pay access to medical journals
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Posted in Useful Web Sites
Speaking of old news, online medical information services provider Ovid recently announced it would begin to offer a PayPerView service for the full text of medical journals. This new plan is designed to give non-subscribers access to previously restricted databases.
Help for Wikipedia
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Posted in Useful Web Sites
A few weeks ago, I read a notice that the terrific open source encyclopedia Wikipedia was having some financial problems, and I resolved to encourage readers of this weblog to help out in some way. By the time I got around to mentioning it (today), I notice that the site has already raised $31,326.38, way…
I can’t believe this still happens
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It seems that “Cyber-blackmail” is on the rise — this usually occurs when the victims receive an e-mail from someone threatening to delete computer files or install p*rn on their computers unless they pay up.
I know most who read the newsletter and blog already know better, but maybe you know someone who doesn’t, so…
The first 2004 issue of….
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Posted in Mighell Marker
…the Internet Legal Research Weekly is up and available for your review. Highlights:
Blawgs of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
- Paul W. Taylor, Chief Strategy Officer at the Center for Digital Government, has started FastGov, otherwise known as “where government is going.”
- Legal Marketing Off the Shelf is the product of legal industry marketing specialist Ruth Balkin.
A whole mess o’blawgs
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
New weblogs just keep on a’comin… first up is NetLawTools, a brand new weblog from lawyer and Net guru Jerry Lawson, whose website of the same namehas been around for some time.Jerry pointed me to a new tax law blog, Tax and Business Law Commentary, authored by Maryland tax attorney Stuart Levine.
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The year in search, from Google Zeitgeist
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Posted in Internet Search
Google Zeitgeist, which provides a monthly snapshot of the search engine’s top searches, offers its 2003 Year-End Zeitgeist, showing that the U.S. and Canada both searched for Britney Spears most often during the year. ::sigh::
The Best of 2003 on Steroids
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Posted in Fun Stuff
Did you miss any “best of 2003” articles in December? Not to worry — Fimoculous appears to have collected every single Best-Of-2003 list in existence and placed them on one page. Give it a look, if only to marvel at the sheer size of it.
A blow to pop-ups?
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Posted in Internet and Technology Law
A court has finally issued a ruling against pop-up advertising. A Manhattan federal judge says that WhenU.com’s pop-up ads for Vision Direct that appear when users visit the 1-800 Contacts website are likely to cause confusion between the two companies. The judge enjoined the company from delivering the pop-up ads.