Robert Ambrogi BlogWho says lawyers are no fun? Check out zap the lawyers, a game where your goal is to protect your new dot-com from the “suits.” When you finish that, try Beware: Lawyers at Work, a whack-the-mole style game in which you attempt to hammer lawyers as they pop out of manhole covers. Both…
What hath the patent office wrought?
Find out at Totally Absurd Inventions and Patents: America’s Goofiest Patents, where you can see doggie luggage, the cheese-filtered cigarette, the toilet snorkel, and the one I’m going to run right out and buy, the beerbrella. Now here’s a site that needs RSS.…
Vivisimo’s ‘secret’ FindLaw clustering page
If not for Network-Lawyers, and, more specifically, Kathy Biehl’s post thereto, I would never have known that Vivisimo provides this interface for clustering search results on FindLaw. I wrote about Vivisimo in 2002 — describing it as a software program that calls on other search engines, extracts the relevant…
See you at Indiana Bar’s solo and small firm conference
I will be attending the Indiana State Bar Association’s Solo and Small Firm Conference June 3-5 in Lafayette. A number of top-notch speakers on the roster, including fellow blogger Tom Mighell, who is speaking on ethics, law-office technology and Internet research. As for myself, I am speaking on “the best legal Web sites,”…
New guide to best legal Web sites
The second edition of my book is due out in June. It can be ordered here: The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, Second Edition.…
Lawyer among Nieman fellows named today
Congratulations to Maggie Mulvihill, lawyer and investigative editor at the Boston Herald, who was among the journalists named today as Nieman Fellows at Harvard University.…
TechnoLawyer announces annual awards
TechnoLawyer today announced its annual legal technology awards, called the TechnoLawyer @ Awards, selected based on voting by subscribers to its various lists.
Here are the results:…
The legacy of Brown: voices of civil rights
On this 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, AARP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights have teamed up to launch Voices of Civil Rights, a site that collects and preserves personal accounts from the past and present of the civil rights movement. Using text, audio and transcripts, it…
Queryster puts a new spin on meta-searching
Power searchers rarely rely on a single search engine. Queryster is a tool that puts a new spin on meta-searching – searching across multiple search engines from a single interface. By default, Queryster submits your search to 10 of the most popular search engines – Google, WiseNut, LookSmart, Ask Jeeves,…
Visualizing Search Results
Is anything to be gained by searching across multiple sites? If you have any doubt about the answer, visit Thumbshots Ranking, a tool that graphically compares search results on different search engines. It shows you how results compare in ranking and position on each site. You can elect to highlight your own or some…
Search engines take the stand
Declan McCullagh writes about judges turning to search engines to check facts, look up information about companies in litigation, and challenge statistics presented by attorneys in court. Are judges making their own evidentiary records? If so, is this permitted? The answers are less clear than you might expect, the article suggests. (Thanks to Steve…