I don’t know if this is funny or sad. The U.S. State Department ordered 16,000 Lenovo laptops, only to decide it should quarantine them for fear that their Chinese manufacturers loaded them with spyware. As I sit here typing this on a Lenovo laptop, I wonder who in China might be monitoring my every…

With the launch of this “semi-official” blog, The Senate Site, Utah’s state Senate became the first legislative body to make blogging a tool for lawmaking, Stateline.org reports.

“Joining the nation’s growing proliferation of political Web logs, or blogs, the Utah site was the first of its kind to strike up a digital

The Globe and Mail reports that venerable Toronto firm Torys LLP has launched a series of video podcasts “of pinstriped partners holding forth on such topics as merger break fees and proxy contests.” Reporter Beppi Crosariol writes:

“Several industry watchers say Torys’ videocasts appear to be the first foray by a law

Sweeping proposals this week from Congress and the president to change U.S. immigration laws have been met with strong reactions from across the political spectrum. On this week’s Coast to Coast legal-affairs podcast, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I discuss these proposed changes with immigration lawyers Gregory Siskind, founding partner of…

A man who, while still in his 20s, commanded a South African infantry regiment and then managed 425 acres of African game preserve certainly knows something of adventure. And one who started his own consulting firm and oversaw its growth to 67 employees probably knows something of strategy. Rob Millard is both those men, and…

A new Web resource, Congresspedia, is using the wiki model to create a tool for citizens to research and share information about members of Congress. In the same way that Wikipedia is a collaboratively written encyclopedia, Congresspedia is a collaboratively written encyclopedia of Congress. It launched in April with 539 articles, one for…

Awards for the best law sites along with awards for sites in 69 business, consumer and culture categories were announced today with the release of the 10th annual Webby Awards.

The award for best law site went to Justice Learning, a civics-education site devoted to helping students and teachers understand law and…

I just wrote about a site that aims to be the Wikipedia of the legal world. Now here is a site that aspires to become the MySpace of the legal world. It is called Lawbby.

If MySpace is where teens and college students meet and mingle, Lawbby says it is…

Somehow I neglected to mention my own podcast last week, in which we focused on e-discovery. We had two great guests and experts in the field, Eric Meyer from Dilworth Paxon in Philadelphia and Stephen Prignano from Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge in Providence, R.I.

Coast to Coast is the weekly…

I’ve become a big fan and regular user of Wikipedia, the free, user-edited encyclopedia. Last fall, Cornell’s Legal Information Institute launched the legal dictionary and encyclopedia Wex, which, like Wikipedia, is collaboratively written and edited by users. Now, another legal wiki has launched, Wiki-Law, and its co-founder says its mission “is to…

I’ve been trying on and off since September to keep a list of lawyer-written blogs in Massachusetts. Here is my list as it stands so far. Please let me know of missing links. Leave me a comment or write me at ambrogi-at-gmail.com.…

A new Web site, DetectiveForums.com, provides links to public records resources on the Web together with free bulletin boards where users can share resources and post questions on public records. The site so far has links in only seven categories, but says it will soon have more than 75 categories. In numbers of links,…