The National Center for Education Statistics has released its Condition of Education 2003, a 327-page report with loads of information on the nation’s schools.
News from the war on spam front
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Email
There have been several stories over the past few days about spam worth mentioning. First up is new spam-fighter Mailblocks’ failed attempt to stop others from using its claimed technology. As you may remember, Mailblocks uses the challenge-response method to differentiate between e-mail sent by humans and that sent by junk e-mailers. Turns out…
Research Site of the Day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Legal Research Sites
The Aviation Safety Network provides “up-to-date, complete and reliable authoritative information on airliner accidents and safety issues.” You can find recent news on airline accidents, accident reports, transcripts of “black box” recordings, a mailing list which allows you to receive updates of aviation incidents, pictures, publications, and more. There’s even an RSS feed so you…
How saturated is your site?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Internet marketing firm Marketleap offers this search engine saturation tool to determine the number of pages a given search engine has in its index for your website. Interestingly, HotBot and AllTheWeb have more than 10 times the pages Google has for Inter Alia.
Solosez finally more than just e-mail
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Law Practice Management, Legal Research Sites
Also via LawSites, The terrific ABA Solosez listserv is now a web portal — check out Solosez.net, providing online resources for solo and small firm practitioners.
Blawg of the Day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Doug Simpson, an attorney in Hartford, Conn., launches Unintended Consequences, focusing on “law and disruptive technologies affecting insurance and related financial services (especially their unintended consequences).” There’s even an RSS feed Welcome to the blogosphere! (Via LawSites)
A guru living in your computer
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Useful Web Sites
Chris Sherman has a nice review of GuruNet, a standalone tool that puts information literally at your fingertips.
Searching the Internet 101
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search
Ernie expands on a point I started yesterday — that searching the Internet should be a skill taught in school. I couldn’t agree more. I frequently give seminars on searching the Internet, and I am constantly amazed at the lack of basic knowledge many have about conducting simple online research (for example, I find that…
Enemy at the gates
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Posted in Email
A new article from Wired discusses how today’s spam fighting programs act as medieval castle guards who bar entry at the gate. Several spam-fighting tools are discussed.
So THAT’S what they’ve been doing…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
News service Moreover has been spending a lot of time lately concentrating on the corporate market, and its free news service has suffered as a result. Now comes word that Moreover plans to roll out a database of over 17,000 weblogs, indexing more than 1,000 entries each day.