Jack M. Balkin, Online Legal Scholarship: The Medium and the Message, 116 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 20 (2006). “…blogging by legal experts has intervened in the debate in a new way, helping to inform not only the public but also the mainstream media and key players about complicated issues.” See also Blogs are liberating the… Continue Reading
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Presentation on 3 Must-Use Online Tools for Journalists
3 Must-Use Online Tools for Journalists, Amy Gahran’s handout [HTML and PDF] from the annual conference of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). [via Center for Media and Democracy] Also from the SPJ conference, Tech Trends: A User’s Guide to Software, Hardware, and Other Tools Revolutionizing Journalism, by Jeff South Continue Reading
Law Librarians Writes About Her Trial Advocacy Blog
Mary Whisner, A Blog’s Life, 98 Law Libr. J. 559 (2006). Continue Reading
Google Webmaster Central
Google Webmaster Central: “Welcome to your one-stop shop for comprehensive info about how Google crawls and indexes websites. You can learn here how to ensure that your site is easily crawled and indexed and access tools that will enable you to diagnose crawling issues, study statistics on how your site is doing in our index,… Continue Reading
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The State of the Law Library Blogosphere, by Bonnie Shucha Reference From Coast to Coast: Are They Finding What They Need? by Jan Bissett and Margi Heinen Continue Reading
DHS Grant to Rutgers Project to Identify Possible Terrorist Activity
“Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to lead a consortium researching advanced information analysis and computational technologies to protect the nation. The university’s Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) will head a consortium that will focus on… Continue Reading
President of Iran Launches Blog Concurrent With Blocking Websites and Blogs
As reported by Reuter’s [via this ABCnews.com link], Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a blog on this website, which English speaking users may read by clicking the second icon located under the photo of the president, located on the far right hand side of the home page. See also this related AP article, Iranian censors… Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch Report on Chinese Internet Censorship
Press release: “In the 149-page report, “Race to the Bottom: Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship, Human Rights Watch documents how extensive corporate and private sector cooperation including by some of the world’s major Internet companies enables…China’s system of Internet censorship and surveillance.” Race to the Bottom: Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship… Continue Reading
State of the Blogosphere, August 2006
State of the Blogosphere, August 2006, by David Sifry. “50 Million Blogs and Counting.” Kevin Burton’s Feed Blog – Technorati’s Numbers are Wrong Continue Reading
Resource on Marketing Your Practice with a Blog
Blawg: Marketing Your Practice with a Weblog, by Jim Calloway and Tom Mighell. Continue Reading
Opposition to Mandatory Government Warning Labels on Web Content
“CDT today urged lawmakers to reject legislation that would force Internet speakers to place government-sanctioned warning labels on a broad range of online content. “Mandatory labeling of legal online content under threat of criminal sanction is ineffective, unwise, and unconstitutional,” CDT wrote in a pair of letters sent to the leaders of the Senate Commerce… Continue Reading
Yahoo Launches Corporate Blog
Joining more than a dozen product blogs, Yahoo launched a corporate blog on August 1: “We want to share insights into our company, our people, our culture, and the things that occupy our cluttered minds. Well cover emerging trends, provide some behind-the-scenes commentary, profile interesting Yahoos, spotlight our beloved users…” Continue Reading
