Time was, the only way to get cool stuff from the federal government was to send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Pueblo, Colo. Now there is a better way: CoolGov, a blog whose raison d’être is finding cool stuff available from the feds. Here is how its authors describe it:
…“The basic premise is
Judge (regarding Curly): “What’s the matter with him?”
Moe: “He thinks he’s a chicken.”
Judge: “Why don’t you put him in an institution?”
Larry: “We can’t, we need the eggs.”
Sometimes the planets line up just right. Sunday night, worn out from a day of skiing,…
A new search engine makes it easier to search for free public records information available through government and commercial Web sites. Called Pretrieve, it serves as a single interface for searching a range of public-records databases.
Using Pretrieve, you can search for public records that relate to an individual, a business, an address or…
Both beSpacific and The Virtual Chase reported Friday on the launch of the Nooked RSS Directory, a directory of corporate RSS feeds.
Here is what the company says in its announcement:
…“The Nooked RSS Directory has been created in response to the growing number of people trying to find relevant RSS
Court Tech Forum describes itself as “the largest court information forum in the world.” Now its goal is to become even larger.
Formed late in 2003 and supported throughout 2004 by Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit Court, CTF recently reorganized as a private company and is seeking corporate sponsorships to support the site and…
As a lawyer/writer myself, I was intrigued by the title of a blog launched in January, the lawyer writer. It is the blog of Neeraja Viswanathan, a self-described attorney-turned-writer in New York City whose book, The Street Law Handbook: Surviving Sex, Drugs, and Petty Crime, was published in November by Bloomsbury Publishing. Suspecting…
I appreciate Lisa Stone’s pointer to my Law Technology News article, Podcasting: CLE’s New Wave? By way of follow-up, an article in today’s New York Times, For a Start-Up, Visions of Profit in Podcasting, tells of a San Francisco company, Odeo, that hopes to cash in on podcasting’s popularity:
…“Compared with
A U.S. woman’s lawsuit alleges it is.…
An update to my post earlier this week, Bloggers beware! Viruses via Blogspot, eWeek reports on the problem in this article, Spyware Snags Blogger Users, and interviews the lawyer, Alvin Borromeo, who reported the problem.
According to eWeek, a spokesperson for Google, which owns Blogger, said that the company…
My recent post, A Web source for municipal codes, brought word from Ken Kozlowski of several other sources, which you can read more about here on Ken’s blog.…
Lawyers who have followed Matt Homann’s posts about LegalMatch will be interested to review the Attorney Match service launched yesterday by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell as part of its consumer-oriented Lawyers.com Web site.
A consumer looking for a lawyer enters the zip code and area of practice in which he or she…
The chief justice of Rhode Island’s Supreme Court has pulled his personal Web site. Frank J. Williams says the site generated unnecessary public attention. He says he launched it earlier this month to deal with speaking requests, not to generate publicity.
Bruce Green, a legal ethics professor at Fordham University in New…
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