This has really been a slow week for Internet research news….thank goodness there are at least 1,000 new blogs that come out each day that I can discuss. Here are two you should check out:
First, Baton Rouge lawyer Steve Covell has started the Louisiana Supreme Court Report, for the latest news from that…
How many e-mails do you get from relatives of former officials of Nigeria trying to smuggle huge sums of money out of the country? Well, now you can reply. Just head over to this site, plug in the specifics, and a reply is generated. Just send it back to your new Nigerian friend and…
If you’re interested in what other people are searching for, January’s Google Zeitgeist is out. And just in case you were wondering, searches for “Joe Millionaire” outnumbered searches for the “Bachelorette” 9 to 1.
Those of you who read blogs on a regular basis should be familiar with the term RSS — for those of you who aren’t, RSS is simply a type of computer code that takes the “headlines” on a website and aggregates them for easy distribution to individuals or other websites. To read these aggregated headlines,…
Brendon Carr, an American lawyer living in Korea, has started Aurora Log, devoted to issues of Korean law. I believe this may be the first blawg on international law issues.
Election Law will discuss “the law of politics and the politics of law, including election law, campaign finance, legislation, and redistricting. This blog is…
First Yahoo purchased search engine Inktomi. Then Google buys Blogger (okay, that’s not the same, but follow me here…). Now Overture, one of Google’s rivals in the area of search-related paid advertising, has purchased search engine AltaVista. That’s AltaVista’sthird owner in the past few years; let’s see if Overture can do anything
Thanks to Denise and Steven for today’s new law-related weblogs:
First up is the Old Fox Den, from legal research specialist and information architect Terry Seale.
Scott’s Jurisprudence is maintained by Indiana attorney Michael Scott, who intends to provide “unique analysis and perspective on legal, business, social and artistic issues of the day.” Scott…
PC World features yet another article on how e-mail users are fed up with spam. Really?
Just five days after mentioning that one of my favorite legal research sites, LLRX, had gone on hiatus, the site was updated February 15 with fresh new content. Enjoy it while you still can…
the Internet Legal Research Weekly is now online.
