First it was Microsoft, now Yahoo! The company is rolling out a souped-up search engine today, in an attempt to dethrone the current search champion.
Say it ain’t so, Sean-Paul!
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
I have mentioned The Agonist several times in recent weeks as a terrific example of warblogging — it now seems that, according to Wired Magazine, the author of the site, Sean-Paul Kelley, has been taking information from a paid news service and posting it without attribution.
Are press releases news?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Google News seems to think so — the news search engine has started listing press releases in its search results. The Register is not happy about it.
8 Days Left…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Legal Research Sites
For those of you procrastinating on filing your tax returns, this month’s Searcher magazine offers a cornucopia of helpful tax websites.
Talk about a poetry slam
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Fun Stuff
Who knew? Read selections from the poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld.
How did your law school do?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Useful Web Sites
U.S. News & World Report has published its 2004 rankings of the top 100 law schools. Of course, to see the good stuff you’ll have to have a subscription to the site, but you can at least see if your law school ranks.
Let the games begin
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Microsoft admits it is gearing up to compete with Google.
Do your part for LookSmart
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Search engine LookSmart wants to use your computer to index the Web. Through its new service Grub, LookSmart will provide your PC with a screensaver that crawls the Internet when the computer is idle. The search engine hopes this type of distributed computing will greatly improve the freshness of its index.
6 Flavors of Word
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
Word 2003, due out some time this summer, will ship in six different versions — they will be named (from most expensive to least) Enterprise, Professional, Small Business, Standard, Student and Teacher, and Basic. A version for every size pocketbook.
Update: AnchorDesk explains the different packages for you.
Is blogging journalism?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
That’s a good question nowadays. CNN got its reporter Kevin Sites to shut down his weblog once the war started, but blogs like The Agonist, Warblogging, and Warblogs.cc are drawing hundreds of thousands of hits daily. Susan Mernit at the Online Journalism Review reports on the friction between blogs and traditional