I wanted to be the first to announce the debut of my friend Tom Mayo’s HealthLawBlog, but Ernie beat me to it. Tom is a great guy who knows a heck of a lot about the subject of health law, so keep coming back as he gets the blog up and running.
This week’s issue of…
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the Internet Legal Research Weekly is available for review. Included in this week’s offerings:
Liable for Libel?
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Posted in Internet and Technology Law
Last week, the Ninth Circuit held in Batzel v. Smith that website operators cannot be held liable for republishing the defamatory comments of others. Since then, many weblogs have ventured the bold proposition that this holding suggests bloggers cannot be sued for libel.
Wrong. Jack Balkin points out that bloggers can still be held…
Happy 4th of July!
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Posted in Miscellaneous
A quick trip through the blogosphere finds a lot of people taking the weekend off. Not here at Inter Alia — we have too much to talk about (and catch up on, too)! So hang on — it’s going to be a busy weekend!
Slowdown on Sunday?
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Posted in Security
The Department of Homeland Security has uncovered a “contest” where hackers plan to attack thousands of websites on Sunday, which could disrupt Internet traffic.
The week’s spam news
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Posted in Email
What would a week be without more news on that scourge of our inbox? (a good week, that’s what) First, the MIT Technology Review presents a nice overview of the epidemic in Spam Wars. And the BBC provides more information on a troubling trend: spammers are hijacking our computers to send spam.
The…
The month in search engines
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Posted in Search Engines
June was a busy month for the Internet’s various search engines, and Chris Sherman highlights the search engine milestones.
RSS Legal News Feeds
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Posted in RSS
This is old news (I’m still catching up!), but Genie over at Virtual Chase has a page of RSS news feeds for law. There’s a link to a helpful article explaining RSS (for those of you who need a refresher), and a great list of sites to add to your newsreader.
RSS feeds are…
New metasearch from Pandia
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Posted in Search Engines
Fans of search guide Pandia Search Central will want to check out its new meta-search tool, Pandia PowerSearch.
Blawg of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
In a follow-up to my article this week about finding experts on the Internet, Peter Nordberg of Daubert on the Web has launched a companion weblog, Blog 702.