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Guide to International Refugee Law Resources on the Web, by Elisa Mason Finding Hidden Intelligence in SEC Filings, by Barbara Fullerton and Catherine Whitney Criminal Justice Resources – Clemency Law, by Ken Strutin Faulkner’s Practical Web Strategies for Attorneys, Are You Ready for the Web-Based Office?, by Frederick L. Faulkner IV The Government Domain: State …
WSJ free feature, At Some Schools, Facebook Evolves From Time Waster to Academic Study: “After years of worrying about how much time freshmen spend on Facebook, schools are incorporating the study of social networking, online communities and user-contributed content into new curricula on social computing. The moves, like other academic expansions into fields like videogame …
Technorati Blog: “We’ve streamlined a blogsearch-only homepage at search.technorati.com (an easy shortcut is s.technorati.com …With this launch, we also provide you with more context around more stuff like videos, music, and blogs. Over time, these pages will become richer and more comprehensive as we add more information about the thing itself, like where it was …
Social Isolation and American Workers: Employee Blogging and Legal Reform, by Rafael Gely and Leonard Bierman, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology (JOLT), Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2007. Abstract: “Despite the work environment’s central role in providing social engagement, employees in the American workplace are more socially isolated than ever before. Americans are moving …
After 5 uninterrupted years of writing this blog each day, I will be taking a brief vacation – no web, no email, no phone. Returning May 22.
A new world unfolding – Posted by John Hanke, Director, Google Earth & Maps
I created and launched LLRX.com in 1996 and have always strived to maintain a site dedicated to sharing best practices on a range of research and technology related issues relevant to legal professionals. Keeping these goals in mind, launching the newly designed LLRX.com, which premiered with the April 2007 issue, was an endeavor over one …
Press release: “The bill provides a privilege in federal court proceedings for reporters to refrain from revealing their confidential sources of information. The privilege is similar in nature to that currently offered by 32 states and the District of Columbia. The ability to assure confidentiality to people who provide information is essential to effective news …
Wired reports the “U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer…The new rules (PDF) obtained by Wired News require a commander be consulted before every blog update.” Via Center for Media and Democracy, “Steven Aftergood posted a related U.S. …
Press release: “Three-fourths of the nation’s largest newspapers now offer blogs on business-related topics, according to a study released today by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University. These popular online Web journals written by reporters get breaking news to readers more quickly, according to 60 percent of the …
New national study from Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service: Civic Engagement Among Young Men and Women. “The new fact sheet shows how young men and women perform on the 19 measures of civic engagement. Utilizing data from the 2006 Civic and Political Health of the Nation Survey, and several …
David Sifry’s annual State of the Blogosphere report: “Technorati is now tracking over 70 million weblogs, and we’re seeing about 120,000 new weblogs being created worldwide each day. That’s about 1.4 blogs created every second of every day.” Archive of reports dating back to October 2004 are linked here.
