News this week that the Justice Department is asking a federal court to compel Google to turn over records of millions of its users’ search queries is shocking and disturbing. Worse yet, America Online, Yahoo and MSN have already complied with the subpoena.
For anyone who would rather not leave behind a…
Five law professors and one anonymous contributor yesterday launched Truth on the Market, a blog offering commentary on law, business, economics and other topics. The five professors are Thom Lambert, associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law; Geoffrey Manne, assistant professor at Lewis & Clark Law School; Keith…
Thomson West today introduced WestCast, a legal podcast available at the Thomson West news page. The inaugural episode features two Thomson West authors, Judge Joe Lee and attorney Hugh Ray, debating the impact of bankruptcy reform. Lee, a bankruptcy judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky, is the author of Bankruptcy: A Practice…
A recent UPI item led me to the Music Plagiarism Project at Columbia Law School. This unique site is devoted to archiving court cases alleging infringement of music copyrights. It provides the court decision, when available, along with editorial commentary on the case. But what makes it truly unique is that it also…
In what CyberJournalist.net says may be a first in blog-land, Pultizer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman of the Cincinnati Enquirer is now blogging his drawings and doodles on the newspaper’s Web site through his BorgBlog. The blog offers a fascinating, over-the-shoulder perspective on the process of creating an editorial cartoon.…
Tip of the hat to Kevin O’Keefe for the pointer to The RSS Cases Blog, a new blog devoted to RSS as a marketing tool. It covers how to use and promote RSS feeds, how to build and maintain them, and how to measure their success. The blog is written by Raj Kumar…
Happy one-year blog birthday to one of my favorite blogs, Online Guide to Mediation, and blogger/mediator extraordinaire Diane Levin.…
From Texas comes word of an innovative program to help meet the mounting legal needs of low-income victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Lend-A-Lawyer, organized by Texas Appleseed and the Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation and supported by the law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, which will underwrite…
ALM announced today the launch of an electronic newsletter by its ALM Research division devoted to law firm and legal market research. The bimonthly ALM Research Newsline will feature updates on data, market studies and rankings of interest to law firm and legal market researchers. According to the announcement, free subscriptions are available…
This week on the legal news podcast Coast to Coast, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I host a panel of esteemed pundits for Legal Predictions for 2006. Our guest prognosticators on the program are:…
Shortly after I wrote earlier today about Podzinger, saying that I could not not find my own podcast, Coast to Coast, there, I heard from a company representative who pointed out that, in his own search, he was able to find it.…
I wrote last April about Podscope, the first full-text search engine for podcasts. Now there is another, Podzinger, launched by BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Mass.
Podzinger is impressive for its features. Search results include text highlights of the portions of the audio that match your search. Click on any word in the…
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