Google today announced the formal launch of Google Desktop Search, a free application that allows users to search for information on their own computers.

First offered last year in a beta version, today’s version 1.0 release adds search over the full text of PDFs and the meta-information stored with music, image…

If you find yourself beset by the urge to return to law school, here is a site for you. LLM Guide is a database of master of laws programs worldwide. As the site explains:

“For lawyers, in some ways the LL.M. is the equivalent of what an MBA is for business people. Many law

What does Google “think” of you? Find out via Googlism, a fun tool that searches Google to arrive at a characterization of a person, place or thing.

Take me for instance. Googlism reports: “robert ambrogi is a prolific writer on internet legal issues who works in alternative dispute resolution in massachussetts.” (OK, so…

For “live, up-to-the minute coverage of the existential absurdity of human life,” there may be no better source than The Harrison Report. It is not about law, per se, although lawyers and the law seem to find their way in, but it is written by someone familiar to the legal profession, Tom Harrison, the…

The Sunshine Project, an organization devoted to promoting transparency in research on biological and biochemical weapons, today released CRISP-ER, a new tool to search and organize research grant data from the National Institutes of Health.

The new tool searches the NIH’s CRISP database — Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects…

Two professors and a lecturer in legal ethics have started a blog for discussion of legal ethics and the legal profession, Legal Ethics Forum. The three who contribute to the blog are:…

In my recent article for Law Technology News, Podcasting: CLE’s New Wave?, I predicted that podcasting may just be the next big thing in CLE. Little did I know, CLE podcasts were already in the works.

Yesterday, the Santa Clara County Bar Association launched a series of one-hour CLE podcasts dubbed CLE…

From Joy London comes word of two new blogs on legal department management:…

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