Gee, I haven’t thought about the Law in a Nutshell series since law school. Apparently, they’re still going strong, and there’s even a version called Legal Research in a Nutshell. The University of Virginia School of Law has put up a page of all the research links contained in the print publication — if
Feed on Arkansas News
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Another news service worth using
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With all this fuss over Google News, we forget that there are other, worthy sources to get your news fix. Yahoo News is one of those sites, and SearchDay takes a closer look at some of its features.
A Fitting End
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Posted in Fun Stuff
Has the movie Gigli gotten more press than any movie in recent memory, or what? That’s why I was amused to see the lead story in the Onion this week: Gigli Focus Groups Demand New Ending In Which Both Affleck and Lopez Die.
A Better Challenge-Response
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Mailblocks, an anti-spam program that uses the “challenge-response” method of reducing unwanted e-mail, unveiled an improved product this week. The new version supposedly reduces the number of challenges sent out to the same e-mail sender.
Blawgs of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
The tide of blawgs just keeps rollin’ on:
- A “50-something mother, wife, grandmother, law student, certified webmaster, decorative artist, who is beginning a whole new life” has made a good start with Le-Gal.
- Groklaw is written by a paralegal who sounds like a real techie.
- Joseph Gusmano, an intellectual property lawyer at Weinstock, Friedman
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New Names, Same Search over at HotBot
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Posted in Search Engines
SearchDay reports that HotBot has renamed the engines it searches, apparently because of name recognition problems. It turns out users did not recognize the search engines Teoma, Inktomi, andFAST Search, but they do know about HotBot (powered by Inktomi), Lycos (powered by FAST), and AskJeeves (powered by Teoma). It’s all in
Give your searches a slug
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Posted in Internet Search
Want to add a little fun to your searches? Check out BananaSlug, a site that uses Google APIs to add random words to your search query. Just enter your search terms, and then pick a category to “seed” your query with a random word — the categories include world cities, tarot cards, Shakespearean themes,…
Blawgs of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Continuing the hit parade of new law-related weblogs:
- Incorporation Blog is brought to you by Mark Smith, a CPA and attorney in Lincoln, Nebraska.
- George Wallace, an attorney practicing in Pasadena, California, writes on all topics at A Fool in a Forest.
- A corporate tax attorney at KPMG in California writes TWise.com.
- A
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Blawgs of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Just when I think I can take a break from reporting on new law-related weblogs, Denise comes along and throws another basketful up into the air. Among the notables:
- Abstract Appeal features the thoughts of Matt Conigliaro, an appellate lawyer at Carlton Fields in St. Petersburg, FL. And he blogs about the Eleventh Circuit.
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