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I am proud to announce that my other blog, Media Law, today becomes a member of the newly launched Corante Media Hub, part of a new direction from Corante that has it partnering with independent bloggers on specific topics and aggregating, distilling and synthesizing their writings in topic-specific sections, or “hubs.” Other…

New York lawyer Lawrence Savell has released his latest CD of holiday songs for lawyers, “You Don’t Wanna Cross Santa.” This is Savell’s third compilation of humorous, holiday rock-and-roll songs, all composed, performed and produced by him. You can find them all through his Web site, LawTunes. …

By way of Evan Schaeffer’s Legal Underground comes a link to the very funny animated film, Lawyer, Lawyer, by Kahye Hwang of the Vancouver Film School.

Links to bylaws and ordinances from more than 100 Massachusetts cities and towns are available through the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries. [Via Massachusetts Law Updates.]…

The folks at phosita bring you Blawg Review #34 — the tryptophan overdose edition.…

For the first time in Massachusetts, the court system will use the Web to evaluate judges, it announced yesterday. The Supreme Judicial Court’s Judicial Performance Evaluation Committee is embarking on a round of evaluations of judges in Suffolk County, where Boston is located. The committee has already sent print evaluation questionnaires to lawyers…

Bill Heinze reports on Harold C. Wegner’s latest list of the top 10 patent cases likely to come before the Supreme Court. The entire paper is available through IPcentral.info.…

Reporters Without Borders marks the World Summit on the Information Society by presenting 15 countries that are “enemies of the Internet” — “the countries that crack down hardest on Internet use, censoring news sites and opposition publications, monitoring the Web to stifle dissident voices, and harassing, intimidating and sometimes imprisoning Internet users and…

Winners have been announced for The BOBs – Best of the Blogs, the 2005 Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards. Selected as overall best blog was A Little Respect, I’m Your Mother, a “blognovel” of more than 200 chapters. We of the Law.com blog network are proud to boast that our own

In a first-of-its-kind event, liberal bloggers from throughout Massachusetts will meet Dec. 10 for a forum being called BlogLeft Massachusetts. The event will be held at Tatnuck Bookseller & Cafe in Worcester from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Speakers will include pioneering political blogger Stirling Newberry of…

Dennis Crouch rounds them up.…

The congressional research site THOMAS has a new look and several new features. According to this Library of Congress announcement Friday, new features include:…