Today’s site is Legal Affairs, the “magazine at the intersection of law and life.” A venture associated with Yale Law School, the publishers of the magazine want present “literate and probing writing about the law” on a regular basis. The most recent issue includes stories about mock trial championships, abortion, sexual harassment, Sierra Leone’s
Blawg of the Day
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Jeremy Kissel writes Politics and Law, a brand new law-related weblog. Welcome!
New at LLRX
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Among other things, Are Blogs Right for Law Firm Marketing?, Part II of the Internet Roundtable discussion I had with Jerry, Brenda,Dennis, and Ernie.
The Labor Day Edition of…
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….the Internet Legal Research Weekly is out, featuring:
Searching for the news, legally speaking
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Posted in Search Engines
Still catching up on my backlog of links: Genie Tyburski was a guest writer on SearchDay earlier this week, and she wrote a nice article onsearching for legal news.
Invisible Surfing
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Consumer Web Watch features an interesting article on keeping your surfing private. The article discusses a number of ways to protect your anonymity, from utilities that “wash” your computer of your surfing habits, to anonymizers that allow you to explore the Internet without anyone discovering your identity.
The article spends a lot of time…
Who you gonna call?
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What with all this Blaster and SoBig mess going on, it’s a comfort to know there are people out there trying to stay one step ahead of the worms.
Blawgs of the Day
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Two from Denise today:
- Jay S. Fleischman, a New York City bankruptcy lawyer, hosts Bankruptcy and Credit, a blog offering helpful consumer credit information.
- legal memo-random is brought to you by Russ.
- Securities Litigation Watch is published by Bruce Carton, Executive Director of the Institutional Shareholder Services’ Securities Class Action Services.
Size DOES Matter
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Well, Google and Overture think so, anyway. Both search companies have added to their database of searchable web pages. Plus, Google has added something to its search results called “supplemental results.”
Update: Google wasn’t happy being 68 million pages behind Overture — so it expanded its database to more than 3.3 billion web
The assault on PDF files continues
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A few weeks ago, Larry Bodine commented that PDF was bad for law firm newsletters. While I agree that 1) HTML and plain text are perfectly acceptable for sending newsletters (that’s how I send out the Internet Legal Research Weekly), and 2) PDF files are not preferred for online reading (via Jakob Nielsen…