Thanks to Genie Tyburski over at The Virtual Chase for the nice mention in her TVC Alert this morning. Check her site out if you haven’t already — it’s a terrific legal research resource.
Internet Legal Research Weekly
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Posted in Mighell Marker
The August 25, 2002 issue of the Internet Legal Research Weekly is now online. Enjoy!
Relief for Those of You with Low Resolution…
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Posted in Miscellaneous
For those of you who still run an 800×600 resolution on your monitors, your view of Inter Alia may have been a bit…well, askew. That has been fixed, so now you should be able to view it like everybody else.
Life Isn’t Forever, but Diamonds Are…
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Posted in Fun Stuff
Warning — matters of questionable taste ahead, but this seems so outrageous I had to mention it. A company called LifeGem wants to help you remember your loved ones in a more permanent and beautiful — and I think, pretty sick — way. LifeGem will take the carbon cremated remains of the dearly departed and…
Web Bugs Allowed to Roam Free
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Posted in Internet and Technology Law
In a decision posted last week by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in the case In re Pharmatrak, Inc. Privacy Litigation, the court ruled that Pharmatrak’s collection of personal data about the Plaintiffs did not violate any state or federal laws. Pharmatrak contracted with several pharmaceutical defendants (including Pfizer, SmithKline,…
The Absurdity of Linking Policies
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Posted in Internet and Technology Law
If you frequently surf the Internet, you know that the life blood of the Web is the hyperlink — it magically connects information across the broad expanse of cyberspace. But there are sites out there that don’t want you linking to them — and will sue you to stop! Professor David Sorkin thinks this is
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Google’s New Options Page
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Posted in Web Applications
Google has redesigned its Services and Tools page to include screenshots of all of its services. Pretty cool.
A Lyrical Way to Fight Spam
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Posted in Email, Technology
Habeas, Inc. announced the development of a new spam fighter this week, and my tired brain is a little overwhelmed at the prospect. If you sign up with the Habeas system, your e-mails contain a little Haiku in the header (computer language you can’t see), that shows others that your e-mail is definitely NOT SPAM.
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Surfwax Helps Students Get a Grip
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Posted in Internet Search, Search Engines
Remember Surfwax, the search engine I reviewed several months ago? Yesterday it announced the launch of Surfwax Scholar, a service designed to help students with their Internet research. Prices start at $2,500/year for 500 students or more…..
Surfwax’s Legal Researcher has been available for some time now.
Metatag Foolishness
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Posted in Internet and Technology Law
Last week, the Seventh Circuit issued an opinion in the case Promatek Industries, Ltd., v. Equitrac Corporation, a lawsuit filed over Equitrac’s use of certain metatags in its web site.
Metatags are keywords that are inserted in the HTML code of a web page, that are provided to a search engine “spider” when it…