Today’s five-star site: Europa

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The primary Web site of the European Union, Europa provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration. Through Europa, you can get access to all the information made available on the Internet by the institutions and bodies of the E.U., including the European Parliament, the Council of the…

Today’s five star-site: eDICTA

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Launched in 2003, eDICTA is the “mega site” of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association. Part e-zine, part portal, it is a comprehensive and broad-ranging guide to resources on the TIPS Web site and elsewhere on the Internet. It features an extensive collection of legal links, direct…

Why Blogads is good for blawgs and for advertisers

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Recently I signed up with Blogads, a service that sells advertising space on blogs. Not long afterwards, I received my first ad, as you can see to the right. Call me commercial, but I believe Blogads may be just the ticket to the future of blawging.

The more I see of blogging, the more…

A new patent blog

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And no sooner do I publish my column on IP blogs than a new one comes along: Patent Pending. Its author, patent attorney Robert Shaver, says it is more entertainment for inventor and technology fans than it is legal postings. “I post what I am interested in,” he says, “which is old patents,…

Today’s five-star site: DivorceNet

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DivorceNet started out in 1995 as a means of showcasing the Newton, Massachusetts, family law practice of Sharyn T. Sooho. It quickly grew into one of the most comprehensive family law sites on the Web and remains so today. Its popularity came in large part from its early incorporation of an “interactive bulletin board,”…