When Google News debuted last year, news rating service Newsknife questioned whether it would perform better than news sites with life editors. After a year, the site reports that live editors still pick the top stories most often. The survey found that Google News picked the top stories 63% of the time, versus 77%
Think before you open those beach photos
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Security
The newest e-mail worm, Mimail.c, disguises itself as a Zip file of steamy beach photos. Once it installs itself on your computer, it has the potential to steal information from your computer. If you get a file called “photos.zip,” don’t open it!
Update: since Mimail.C came out, several variants of the worm have…
Search but don’t copy
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Useful Web Sites
Easing the concerns of many authors, Amazon’s new “Search Inside the Book” feature does not allow users to print or copy pages of books. All of the pages say “Copyrighted Material” and none of the usual Cut, and Paste options are available; further, when you use the Print function, the content of the pages…
More Efficient Searching
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search
Daniel Bazac has a nice tutorial on Searching the Web more efficiently.
Searching *** asterisks
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
This month’s Online Magazine has a great article from Greg Notess on Unusual Power Web Searching Commands, including using asterisks to enable proximity searching in Google (among other things).
Blawgs of the Day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
- Trials and Tribulations features “a trial lawyer’s commentary on his cases, significant legal developments and occasionally, life in general.”
- Christopher Cross, a Los Angeles law student who by his own admission should be studying, is instead publishing Legal XXX, which is “not as dirty as it sounds.”
The month in search engine news
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Just like clockwork, Chris Sherman provides his Search Engine Milestones for October 2003.
Blawgs of the Day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
- An Oasis is written by Paul, a first year law and politics student at Edinburgh Law School.
- The Bradley Huggins Consulting Group has been running the Law Firm Management News since June, with news, advice, and commentary for managing partners, legal administrators, and other legal management professionals.
- Who is behind the Texas Law Blog
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An abbreviated edition of…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Mighell Marker
the Internet Legal Research Weekly is now online, featuring:
Yeah, but will they carry “You Don’t Know Jack”?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Useful Web Sites
The Internet Archive, that mammoth repository of all things WWW, has petitioned the U.S. Copyright Office for the right to archive copies of old software titles. Although it’s probably an uphill battle, I would think such an archive would be useful — and fun.