- En Banc is a new group weblog formed to discuss political and legal issues. The combined power of eight blawgers will be interesting to watch.
- Bryan Gates an attorney practicing in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, publishes I Respectfully Dissent, featuring “random thoughts, ramblings and rants about things legal, illegal, tortious, outrageous and otherwise.”
Halloween Site of the Day
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Retrocrush has a nifty gallery of the world’s greatest Halloween costumes. Although these costumes probably aren’t available anymore, they do make for some good retro costume ideas.
What’s your privacy quotient?
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Posted in Privacy
Be sure to read The Great American Privacy Makeover if you haven’t already — it’s a good, pretty thorough discussion of the ways in which your PC is at risk on the Internet. My Privacy IQ turned out to be 58 (better than readers, worse than the editors), so I’ve got a lot to learn,
Toss your Webster’s
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Posted in Search Engines
Well, not really. But Google’s glossary tool is a pretty cool alternative. Now the feature is available through the regular Google interface; just type “Define” and the word you’re looking for, and the definition will be the first result. For example, define synchronicity brings up one definition, and multiple search results, and define:synchronicity brings up …
What TDMA means, ASAP
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Posted in Useful Web Sites
Acronym Finder, a helpful database of over 313,000 acronyms, was reviewed on Monday by SearchDay.
Blawgs of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
- Andrew McLaughlin presents his thoughts on technology, politics, law, culture, and other stuff too.
- Watch the evolution of an engineer turning into a lawyer over at Transmogriflaw.
Search Personalization: not any time soon
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Posted in Internet Search
That’s the opinion of research company Jupiter Research. The company’s survey finds that current efforts to personalize a user’s website experience is costly and ineffective, and urges companies to focus on making sites easy to search and navigate.
Weblogs of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
- Campaigns Online is the weblog component of a project at Johns Hopkins University, designed to promote improvements and understanding in the usage of the Internet and emerging technologies in political campaigns.
- Michael Lowe, a friend of mine who used to work for my firm, publishes the brand-spanking-new (and appropriately named) Dallas Lawyer.
- A whole
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‘Tis the Season
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Posted in Useful Web Sites
For the flu, that is. If you haven’t gotten your flu shot yet, and don’t know where to go, check out the Flu Shot Locator.
Good government (web sites)
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The Center for Digital Government has awarded its 2003 Best Government Websites. Tops on the list are Utah, Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Maryland. I was happy to see my hometown portal of Dallas won 5th place in the city category. There are a number of other winners worth visiting here.