Blogs By and For the Legal Community
From Robert J. Ambrogi, Blawgs: More Than Just Fluff reviews several dozens sites that offer useful information to the legal community.
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Justice, War and the Constitution
According to this AP report, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made some interesting statements at John Carroll University yesterday. In particular, after his speech and during a question and answer exchange he said that when the nation is at war, citizens can expect that civil liberties “…will be ratcheted right down to the constitutional minimum. …
Search Engine for RSS Feeds
My previous posting on a new search engine for RSS feeds indicated the site was seeking a new name, and here it is, Feedster. See also this article, Search engines target Weblogs.
New Report on Spam and E-Mail Addresses
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) published a new report, Why Am I Getting All This Spam? (16 pages in PDF), which documents the volume of spam received over the course of six months by hundreds of accounts created specifically to research this issue. Although the report offers no absolute methods for beating spam, …
KM Portal Acquires Legal Practice Management System
Hummingbird Ltd., a leading KM enterprise management portal, announced the acquisition of LegalKEY® Technologies, Inc., a provider of conflicts and records management software.
Software to Test Country Specific Net Censorship
This Wired article highlights a software initiative developed by the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, called Internet Censorship Explorer (ICE). “ICE demonstrates state-sponsored content filtering and blocking by delivering the content of blocked URLs to end users. After completing a query form, ICE will attempt to access the …
Google Expands Its Position
From How Google Grows…and Grows…and Grows, “…Google is also a case study in savvy management — a company filled with cutting-edge ideas, rigorous accountability, and relentless attention to detail.”
ENFIN Interview of Search Engine Expert
Worth a read, this interview with colleague Robert Clough of Search Engine Guide reviews how he started the company, the services it offers, and his perspectives on the search engine industry.
More Campaign Data From PoliticalWeb.com
As mentioned in my previous posting on PoliticalWeb.com, this site is offering a wealth of analysis on campaign related data. Newly available is this resource, 2002 Campaign Web Sphere Analysis, which details how “candidates for House, Senate and Governor used the Web in the 2002 campaign to facilitate civic engagement, establish connections to other political …
FOIA Requests Logged for Public Viewing
The MemoryHole has posted logs, in Excel, of FOIA requests received by the Department of Defense for 2001, 2002, and 2003, Jan & Feb. There is no indication as to what percentage of all requests made to DOD this data represents, however, the site will regularly update this resource.
New Resource on Iraq-Related Sites
Tim Rozgonyi, Assistant Technology Systems Editor, Pittsburgh Gazette, has published a useful and timely annotated list of links, Iraq, War on Terrorism. Links are arranged by the following categories: Country Information
Students at Brown Lose Net Access for File Sharing
Brown University temporarily terminated Internet access for 67 students after they were identified as having downloaded files using P2P applications through the campus network. See also this Message to the Brown Community on Illegal Downloading of Music and Videos and Your Vulnerability, which links to the Using Computing Resources at Brown University guidelines.
