Create Own RSS Feed or Email Alert to Monitor Web Site Changes
Monitoring changes to Web sites can be an important part of legal practice, whether for litigation, competitive intelligence, current awareness, or any number of other reasons. RSS feeds and email alerts make potentially laborious process much easier. Instead of going out to the web site every day, you can automatically receive notification of any changes.
But what do you do when the site doesn't offer a RSS feed or email alert? Build your own. I put together this short handout for a class I taught last week. In it, I describe two tools - PonyFish (RSS) & Watch That Page (email) - which allow to you create your own mo...
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - April 30, 2008 Tags: Communication
CityDictionary Defines Local Customs/Phrases
CityDictionary is a fun new online dictionary with a local flavor. From the creator:
It's for regional words/phrases/things/places, etc. that you think someone should know about a city. But it's more than just a city guide -- it's really a place to share insider information like nicknames for things, regional slang, etc. that you wouldn't know until someone explained it to you. You can also upload photos of things (whether or not you wrote a definition for it). Also, if you have a better definition for a word that already exists on there (or just think there is some key information missing), just add your own definiti...
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - April 30, 2008 Tags: Data & Databases
Microsoft Device Helps Police Pluck Evidence from Cyberscene of Crime
The Seattle Times, April 29, 2008 By Benjamin J. Romano, Seattle Times technology reporter Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.
The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB "thumb drive" that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith described its use to the 350 law-enforcement experts attending a company conference Monday.
The device contains 150 commands that can dramatically...
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Electronic Discovery Law - April 30, 2008 Tags: News & Updates
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference 2008 - May 20-23
Haven't planned your post-Berkman@10 activities yet? Here's a reason to stick around the New England area for a couple of more days. This year's Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference is being held from May 20-23 in New Haven, CT at the Omni Hotel. read more
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Berkman Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: ashar
English Libel Law's Pernicious Impact on First Amendment Speech
Citizen Media Law Project director David Ardia walks us through Floyd Abrams' op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal.
From the Citizen Media Law Project blog...read more
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Berkman Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: syoung
Berkman@10: two weeks to go
The Berkman@10 conference and gala are approaching fast! We have spruced up the agenda, and the conference wiki is up and running. Registration is open, space is limited, reserve your seat now!read more
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Berkman Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: ashar Tags: Berkman@10
Onward!
With more than a little bit of pride and enthusiasm, we celebrate the appointment of our dear friend and colleague John Palfrey as Harvard Law School's first Associate Dean of Library and Information Resources.read more
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Berkman Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: syoung Tags: newsroom
"The Deductions Dilemma"
In the news: So your company loans an employee a laptop. The employee resigns, but he doesn't return the laptop....
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Business of Lawyering
"Scalia 60 Minutes Transcript"
Posted by Matt Steinke: A written summary of Justice Scalia's 60 Minutes interview is available here. The active link...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Judges
"Lawyers, Law Students and Facebook"
Posted by Doug Cornelius: With the summer associates coming soon, The Firm has been wondering what to do with Facebook....
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Summer Associates
"The Checks in the Mail or Is It?"
Posted by Nerino Petro: Ed Poll has written a number of books on law practice management including his book Collecting...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Business of Lawyering
Six Options for Anger Management by Julie Fleming Brown
From the e-newsletter: Lawyers who are or aspire to be leaders must learn to self-manage. Especially when stressed or under...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Lawyer ' s Personal Life
"How to Leave the Perfect Voicemail"
From the blog: Im not a big fan of voicemail. I dont mind leaving voicemail messages; I just hate having...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Public Relations
"Overcoming Resistance to Change"
Posted by Anthony Cerminaro: Want to start a business or make some other personal change? Something holding you back? Perhaps...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Law Practice Management
Will Marry for Health Insurance
A Kaiser Family Foundation survey taken in April found that seven percent of Americans surveyed said they or someone in their family had married within the last year in order to have access to health care benefits. The survey points out the impact that increasingly unaffordable health insurance is having on personal finances in the United States. Concern over health care costs topped rising food costs, but fuel costs were a problem for even more Americans. Hat tip to HealthLawProfBlog
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novalawcity - April 30, 2008 Author: Deborah McGovern
When I use a word...it means just what I choose it to mean
Nova Southeastern School of Law Professor Joel Mintz organized the registering of a highly critical response by professors from law schools across the country to the EPA's plan for how it will re-open agency libraries. The professors decried the lack of specificity in EPA's definition of "core materials" to be restored, the absence of any plans to digitize the EPA's collection and the necessity to make appointments to visit parts of the collection.
Mintz expressed doubt that the EPA intended to proceed with the re-opening, which was mandated by Congress in the wake of the controversial closings,...
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novalawcity - April 30, 2008 Author: Deborah McGovern
Help for Homeowners Facing Foreclosure
Beginning May 1, 2008, homeowners facing foreclosure have 90 days to cure a default, under M.G.L. c. 244, s.35A, passed last November. According to a press release from Attorney General Martha Coakley and Governor Deval Patrick, "starting tomorrow, a foreclosing lender must provide a notice of delinquency to the borrower and then provide 90 days to cure the delinquency. Previously, homeowners were only entitled to 30 days notice, and the lender did not have to give the homeowner an opportunity to pay the arrearage, cure the default, and avoid foreclosure."One key provision of the new law is that "a mortgagor shall not ...
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Massachusetts Law Updates - April 30, 2008 Author: Meg
Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews
Reviews published in the April 21st, 2008 issue of InSITE: IANSA: International Action Network on Small Arms Secrecy News Small Arms Survey Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society UC Berkeley Library's Congressional Research Tutorials [RJ]
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Law Librarian Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Reviews
EPA Publishes Annual National Greenhouse Gas Inventory
From the press release: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the national greenhouse gas inventory, which finds that overall emissions during 2006 decreased by 1.1 percent from the previous year. The report, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Gov Docs
Nussbaum's Liberty of Conscience
Nussbaum’s contribution is to show vividly how the equality tradition leads the court, and the rest of us, to ask the right questions. As she understands, this is what we can ask of the law. -- Emily Bazelon, Good Faith,...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: New Publications
Impact of CAFA Study Finds 72 Percent Increase in Class Actions
The Impact of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 on the Federal Courts, Fourth Interim Report to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules (April 2008) (pdf) found a 72 percent increase in class action cases for comparable...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Courts
Managing Web 2.0 Deployments for e-Discovery Compliance
Pretty much all digital information is vulnerable when it comes to e-discovery requests. That includes content stored in-house on servers and local drives, plus mobile devices. IT departments can readily deal with these discovery requests but what about Web 2.0...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Information Technology
2008 Essential Reference Tools Surveys
Check out Diane Kovacs' on-going reference tool surveys, including surveys for Law and Government Documents, both hosted by SurveyMonkey. Kovacs is author of The Virtual Reference Handbook (2007)(Details below the fold). [JH]
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Law Librarian Blog - April 30, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Polls
