beSpacific provides the heads up to the Google Blog announcement of the launch of Knol:
…“Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. … The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of
Legendary Wyoming trial lawyer Gerry Spence is now also on the road to becoming a legendary blogger. Earlier this month, he launched Gerry Spence’s Blog, explaining in an introductory post that he has done a “miserably inadequate” job of using the Internet to share his thoughts and lessons. “I have learned things…
I came across this fairly interesting legal blog, Domain Name Shame, that tracks WIPO arbitration decisions in domain name cases. The posts are straightforward in their synopses of the cases and devoid of comments that anyone would consider highly critical or inflammatory. Yet the blog is published “anonymously,” with no identification of the lawyers…
For the do-it-yourselfers out there, Roxer beta looks like a simple way to build a nice-looking Web site. It is all done within your browser and no knowledge of HTML is required. In fact, to demo the site, you can remake its front page — just click on the padlock icon in the lower…
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has launched a Web site, MassWorkRights.com, that provides Massachusetts workers with information about the rights on the job. The site features information about wages, overtime, tips and meal breaks, all provided in six languages: English, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.…
The legal public-relations firm Jaffe Associates (where I once worked as VP of editorial services) has launched a blog, Jaffe Blog. It will provide attorneys and legal marketers with information about using Web 2.0 in their marketing efforts, according to an announcement.
At the same time, Jaffe published a white paper on Web…
Boston lawyer David A. Barrett, who claims to have the “world’s largest LinkedIn lawyer network,” has launched a blog, The LinkedIn Lawyer, devoted to answering other lawyers’ questions about the professional-networking site. In a recent post, he explains his claim to the world’s largest lawyer network:
…“‘The World’s Largest LinkedIn Lawyer Network’
Unless something is done to change its course, the future of the Internet, as Jonathan Zittrain sees it, is one of far less innovation and far more — and far more ominous — control. Zittrain, who just became a tenured professor at Harvard Law School, discusses his…
U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner, who attracted the attention of bloggers and the news media earlier this year when she joined the roster of contributors to the new Slate legal blog, Convictions, shares her thoughts on judicial blogging and judicial speech in this week’s episode of our legal-affairs podcast
Another term has ended for our nation’s highest court, so we’ve recruited two Supreme Court experts to wrap-up the term’s most significant opinions and most influential justices, as well as to shaire their thoughts on the future of the court in a presidential election year. Joining us this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer…
I have details in a post at Legal Blog Watch.…
Evernote, the perpetual, multi-platform note-keeping and Web-clipping service that I reviewed favorably in March (Evernote Beta: Never Forget Anything) is now in open beta, which means that an invitation is no longer required to sign up. In addition, Evernote announced two new features:…
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