Law.com discusses WiFi connections at coffee shops and airports today. WiFi stands for Wireless Fidelity, and it allows a user to wirelessly connect to the Internet wherever it happens to be available. Starbucks provides wireless access to its customers who have the right equipment on their laptop — pretty cool stuff.
ABA Techshow is coming — are you going?
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Posted in Legal Technology
ABA TECHSHOW, the only technology conference developed by and for lawyers and legal professionals, is just around the corner. The conference will take place in Chicago April 3 through April 5, and the offerings are tremendous. I am fortunate to be speaking there, where I’ll be giving two presentations on April 3. The first…
And if all this weblog stuff is confusing…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Phil Gyford offers this nice page describing weblog terms for weblog readers. Learn more about RSS, permalinks, trackback, and more.
New blawg for Pennsyvania lawyers
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Robert Vonada of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has been writing the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Blawgsince December, providing an online journal of developments and web links related to…you guessed it, Pennsylvania workers’ compensation practice and procedure. Issue-specific sites like this are the way weblogs ought to be going — this site should be…
The Overture power play, Part II
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Posted in Search Engines
Last week I mentioned web advertising giant Overture’s purchase of search engine AltaVista. Apparently one search engine was not enough. This week, Overture is purchasing search services from FAST Search, which runs the terrific AllTheWeb search engine. Overture now owns two of the better search resources on the Internet — big news indeed.
Research Site of the Day
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Posted in Legal Research Sites
Berkeley’s Institute of Industrial Relations provides a contracts database, which aims to serve as a “one-stop public online clearinghouse for catalogued and digitized complete text of union contracts.” You can browse the contracts by state, union name, or industry represented. The rest of the IIR site is pretty cool, too.
A new issue of…
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Posted in Mighell Marker
….the Internet Legal Research Weekly is online and available for your reading pleasure.
Blogging for Governors
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Posted in Useful Web Sites
It’s not a weblog, really, but it’s still pretty cool that Texas Governor Rick Perry has an RSS feed on his home page, allowing you to view the latest in Texas government news in your newsreader. If you care about Texas government news, that is.
Settling on the Internet
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Posted in Legal Research Sites
The Duke Law and Technology Review provides an assessment of online dispute resolution websites. The excellent article covers some of the sites offering this service, and also discusses the pros and cons of settling your claim online. (Via Jurist)
Ready for an e-mail change? Check these programs out
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Email
I use MS Outlook on a daily basis, and I’m pretty satisfied with the way it works — I’m especially looking forward to the new version of Outlook currently being developed. But not everybody feels the same way, and several software companies have developed e-mail clients they hope will lure you away from Outlook.