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Friday, September 05, 2003
Diplomacy Monitor trains eye on global politics As nations throughout the world increasingly use the Web to articulate diplomatic positions and mold global opinion on international issues, St. Thomas University School of Law has launched Diplomacy Monitor. The site monitors this international output of communiqués, official statements, press briefings, position papers, interview transcripts and news releases from hundreds of Web sites operated by heads of state, ministries of foreign affairs, embassies, missions and even consulates and channels it into a single information stream for scholars, diplomats, journalists, researchers and anyone else who is interested. [via The Scout Report.] Thursday, September 04, 2003
Still seeking suggestions for the 10 best sites of the decade I've received some strong opinions on what not to include, but I'm still seeking suggestions on the 10 best legal Web sites of the last 10 years. Wednesday, September 03, 2003
County bars unite to publish court opinions online Opinions of Pennsylvania's county courts of common pleas are not easy to find online. So four county bar associations joined efforts to collect their local courts' opinions and publish them on the Web. The result is paopinions.org, a database of opinions from Chester, Lancaster, Monroe and Westmoreland counties. Server space is contributed the state attorney general. Audience for blogs still small E-Media Tidbits points to a recent Forrester Research study that found that only 2 percent of online households go to a Web log at least once a week. Seventy-nine percent of people surveyed hadn't even heard of Web logs. ethicalEsq?: Are bar advocates in Mass. crossing a line? In a provocative posting, ethicalEsq? argues that efforts by bar advocates in Massachusetts to increase their fees -- including use of the Bristol County Bar Advocates' Web site as an information center -- may raise antitrust and ethical concerns. Dogpile's new look more than cosmetic Dogpile, a meta-search tool that delivers results from multiple search engines including Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves, unveiled a new look yesterday, and SearchEngineWatch.com reports it is structural as well as cosmetic, including the addition of results grouping by category. Help me pick the decade's 10 best legal sites October is the 10th anniversary of Law Technology News, and editor Monica Bay is planning a special issue to mark the occasion. She has asked me to write a column on the 10 best legal Web sites of the decade. I have no shortage of thoughts on this, but I'd love to hear your nominees. If you have a moment, send me an e-mail with your thoughts on the best sites of the past 10 years. It's even OK if they no longer exist. Tuesday, September 02, 2003
I won a scholarship to BloggerCon I awoke this morning to an e-mail from none other than Dave Winer. It said: "As you know we're giving away 25 BloggerCon seats to members of the weblog community, at absolutely no cost. Yesterday, as scheduled, we ran the script that chose the 25 lucky people at random, and.. You won! Congratulations! We all look forward to seeing you at BloggerCon on October 4 and 5, on the campus of Harvard Law School, in Cambridge MA." Thanks Dave. (And Wendy.) I look forward to seeing you there, as well. A new direction for my career I have joined Jaffe Associates as vice president of editorial services and director of Jaffe's WritersForLawyers.com. (Read the formal announcement -- I swear I didn't pick the music.) Jaffe provides a range of business development services and products to law firms and other professional services firms in North America and Europe. It has four main areas of focus: business development consulting, media relations, business development technology, and creative services. Among other things, it is becoming one of the top Web design firms in the country. Its WritersForLawyers.com is the leading source for expert legal writing resources. It matches the writing needs of lawyers and law firms with experienced legal journalists to ghostwrite or polish articles, biographies, practice area descriptions, case studies or any business-development piece. I am excited about this position because I will be involved in a range of overlapping areas of writing, marketing, media relations and Web design. One area I particularly look forward to is helping law firms design and develop blawgs of their own. And Jaffe is a virtual company, so I can work from my home in lovely Rockport, Mass. Drop me a line at my new e-mail address. Monday, September 01, 2003
Another site for state court briefs My June column, A Brief Summary: Free Briefs on the Web, listed free places to find briefs on the Web, including several state-court sites. I notice that Montana is another state that publishes briefs submitted to its Supreme Court. Why are Georgia court opinions so confusing? Until last year, Georgia appellate opinions were conveniently offered through a single Web site -- and one which was, I believe, an official court site. Go there now and find that Georgia Supreme Court opinions stop as of Oct. 28, 2002, and Court of Appeals opinions stop as of Sept. 6, 2002. The Supreme Court now offers opinions on a different site; however, as far as I can tell, they cannot be searched. Meanwhile, the Court of Appeals has a new site, but does not have opinions at all. Instead, it provides a link to the free case-search page of LexisONE. The whole arrangement strikes me as odd and a step backwards for public access to court information. |
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