Via Micro Persuasion comes news that CNET News.com has launched a Web-based RSS news aggregator called Newsburst. The site, now in preview, will compete with Bloglines and Rojo, notes Micro Persuasion’s Steve Rubel. Newsburst describes itself this way: “Newsburst is a personalized tool that tracks virtually any type of information…

Editor & Publisher magazine polled its readers to guess the identity of Watergate legend Deep Throat. The surprise winner: Chief Justice William Rehnquist.…

Off topic for this blog, but over at my other blog, Media Law, I report on a decision from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court that marks another in a recent string of legal blows to reporters’ protection of confidential sources.…

In a previous post, I mentioned Justia, the Web site and online marketing company led by FindLaw co-founder and former CEO Tim Stanley. Now I see that Tim has launched a companion blog, Legal SEO Blog. Says Tim: “On this blog we will comment on the Internet and legal marketing industries, as…

Law Technology News has my Web Watch article, Podcasting: CLE’s New Wave?. [Free registration required.]…

The UK magazine Managing Intellectual Property has announced the results of its survey of the leading patent firms worldwide. [Subscription required, but free trial available.]

The survey polled IP practitioners in 57 countries for their picks for the best firms. The magazine followed the survey with requests for more detailed comments from practitioners…

I recently noted the shuttering of CrossingtheBar.com, a legal-ethics site devoted to multijurisdictional practice, so I was glad to learn of a new site devoted to legal ethics, judicial ethics and bar admission issues, sunEthics.com.

The site is written and maintained by Timothy P. Chinaris, assistant dean of information resources and associate…

Sheppard Mullin Richter Hampton today launched Antitrust Review Blog, the first of several blogs the firm plans to publish. Chief Knowledge Officer Thomas W. Baldwin writes that the firm will now use blogs in place of its former PDF newsletters. Others coming down the pike will cover labor, finance/bankruptcy and technology. No doubt,…

Lisa, you can delete that question mark. Ask Jeeves makes it official.…

TechNewsWorld interviews Robert J. Kasunic, principal legal advisor at the U.S. Copyright Office, on what businesses need to know about copyright law and the Internet.

Kasunic also maintains his own copyright law and litigation portal, Kasunic.com. He has compiled an extensive collection of links to copyright, IP and litigation resources on the…

Stuck researching government information? Get live, online help from a government information librarian through Government Information Online. This national pilot project, a cooperative effort of more than 30 libraries throughout the United States, provides a virtual reference and information service that specializes in questions concerning government information. All participants are official depository libraries that…

The former SCOTUSBlog is now the new and improved SCOTUSBlog. Written by the Washington, D.C., firm Goldstein & Howe, and with contributions from long-time Supreme Court reporter Lyle Denniston, this is the only blog devoted to tracking litigation before the Supreme Court.…