Earlier this week, Law.com posted my column proclaiming 2005 as Year of the Podcast. Now we learn that the New Oxford American Dictionary has selected “podcast” as the word of the year. The announcement explains:

“Only a year ago, podcasting was an arcane activity, the domain of a few techies and self-admitted

Coast to Coast this week looks at military recruiting at law schools and the case argued earlier this week before the Supreme Court, Rumsfeld v. FAIR. Our guest today was Lara Schwartz, chief legislative counsel for Human Rights Campaign, an organization devoted to promoting lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender equal rights. …

Gallup has released its annual poll asking Americans to rate the honesty and ethical standards of those in various professions, reports Editor & Publisher, and lawyers rank near the bottom of the list. The good news: lawyers rank higher than senators, congressmen, labor union leaders and car salesman. But they rank behind funeral directors,…

At 11 a.m. ET today, C-SPAN will stream the oral arguments in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic & Institutional Rights, involving the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment, requiring universities to allow military recruiters on campus or lose federal funds.…

I wrote last week about BlawgWorld 2006, the TechnoLawyer e-book featuring representative posts from 51 “of the most influential” law-related blogs. Since then, I have found it interesting to read some of the reviews and comments posted around the blogosphere. While many had praise and kind words for the effort, others were…

Law.com today features my latest Web Watch column: 2005: Year of the Podcast.…

In the days leading up to his wife’s murder, Robert James Petrick used Google to search the terms “body decomposition,” “rigor mortis,” “neck” and “break.” He also went online to research the depth, currents and underwater topography of the lake in which his wife’s body was found. This evidence helped lead to Petrick’s conviction in…

Next fall, a new law school will make its debut in Greensboro, N.C., with a charter class of 100 students. Recently, the new law school launched its new Web site, Elon University School of Law. The new school also announced that the American Judicature Society will open a new Institute of Forensic…

Shortly after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood, we recorded the Coast to Coast program, Supreme Court and the Abortion Issue. Our guests to discuss the case and its implications were Neil S. Siegel, associate professor of law at Duke Law and former law clerk to…

TechnoLawyer today released BlawgWorld 2006: Capital of Big Ideas, an e-book featuring representative posts from 51 “of the most influential” law-related blogs. Not sure I’d describe my blog as influential, but I’m included nonetheless.

The book is free to download — with a hitch. It is free to TechnoLawyer members, and TechnoLawyer…

C-SPAN has announced that it will broadcast audio recordings of today’s oral arguments in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. The arguments will be broadcast through www.c-span.org as well as over C-SPAN cable and radio. The broadcast will begin today at approximately 12:15 p.m. ET or as soon as the Supreme…

Since J. Craig Williams and I launched our weekly legal news podcast Coast to Coast, I have not noticed any uptick in my standard of living. In fact, the only rewards I’ve derived from podcasting are purely of the nonpecuniary sort. Not so others, according to The Mercury News, which reports that