So says the blog Napsterization, which says that search site Ask Jeeves purchase of Bloglines, a blog search and aggregation site, will be announced tomorrow, and that Ask Jeeves is integrating Bloglines into its search system.…
A pet peeve exposed
I felt validated when I saw this article on The Law Marketing Portal, becauses it addresses a topic that has long been a pet peeve of mine — the failure of law firms to list non-lawyers on their Web sites.
As a former reporter and editor, I would often go to a firm’s…
Give in to your inner Grisham
Is your inner Grisham goading you to leave law? Are you convinced you have the talent of Turow? Here is the chance to show your stuff: the National Legal Fiction Writing Competition for Lawyers. [Caution: link is to PDF]. Sponsored by Seak Inc., first prize is a $1,000 gift certificate and lunch with…
The state of public school desegregation
To what extent is the geographic location in which a court enters an order a factor in predicting compliance? When the court order concerns desegregation, location would seem highly relevant. Now, Brown University has brought the social-science discipline of spatial analysis to bear on this question, and has put the resulting data on the…
Yahoo Builds Search into Web Pages
Yahoo! Wednesday introduced a beta version of a dramatic innovation in Web-search technology. Called Y!Q, it is contextual search technology that analyzes the contents of the Web page you are viewing and then gives you a list of search results directly related to that content. Yahoo calls it “an entirely new way to…
AGs launch site to promote SUV safety
When an SUV rollover results in injury or death, attorneys are sure to become involved. Now, the legal community is using the Web to help prevent these rollovers, and the ugly beast shown here — the 6-foot long, 11-foot wide and 10-foot tall ESUVEE — is the mascot of that effort.
The attorneys general of…
New tool searches open source software patents
PatentCafe today launched its OSS Patent Search Engine, a free tool devoted to making open source software patents searchable using natural language queries. The initial collection includes the 500 OSS patents pledged by IBM early in January. The company has not said for certain whether it will expand the database by adding…
Blawgerpix
What do blawgers look like in person? I’ve posted some pics of today’s blawgers’ lunch at Legal Tech in NY. You can find them here.…
LTN awards honor innovators in legal technology
At Legal Tech New York, I attended the Law Technology News technology awards banquet last night. I was going to report on the award recipients, but I see that LTN editor Monica Bay beat me to the punch. So head over to Monica’s blog and read all about it.…
An IP blawg I should not have overlooked
Earlier this week, I mentioned that I had posted my article, IP Blogs: Pocket Parts for a Digital Age. Of course, there is nothing like writing about a topic to make you realize what you left out. One such IP blog worth mentioning is Law Under the Microscope, written by Cecelia…
A tool to quickly search IP case filings
Want to know whether a company has been sued for patent, trademark or copyright infringement? Want to track new IP case filings in a particular jurisdiction? Who’s Suing Whom is a simple interface for searching information about IP cases filed in U.S. district courts for at least the last five years. A free basic…
New Web site targets online child abuse
A Web site launched yesterday as part of a collaborative effort by law enforcement agencies on three continents is intended to serve as a global resource for helping to prevent child abuse online. Virtual Global Taskforce, created through a partnership between law enforcement agencies and industry in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United…