The founder of Wikipedia has set Jan. 7 as the launch date for his new search engine, Wikia, according to a report in The Washington Post. The site, which is already operating in beta, hopes to challenge search giant Google by distinguishing itself through four organizing principles:…
Column: What’s New on the Legal Web
[The following column originally appeared in print in May 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…
Column: Legal Technology Buying Guides
[The following column originally appeared in print in March 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…
Column: Food Allergies and the Law
[The following column originally appeared in print in February 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…
Part Two: Discovering E-Discovery on the Web
[The following column originally appeared in print in October 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…
Part One: Discovering E-Discovery on the Web
[The following column originally appeared in print in September 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…
Where There’s a Wiki, There’s a Way
[The following column originally appeared in print in April 2007. I am republishing it as part of my continuing effort to maintain an archive of my published columns. Important note: I have not updated this since its original publication. While most of the sites remain as…
The Better People Search Tool
Over the last several weeks, I’ve received several e-mails informing me that someone I know has requested my trust on Spock. Not knowing anything about it, I ignored them until I could find the time to investigate. Today I found the time — and I am impressed.
Spock is a search tool for finding…
More Government Docs to Go on Web
Carl Malamud and his Public.Resource.Org — who I wrote about last month for his project to publish 1.8 million pages of federal case law on the Web — has struck again. This time, as The New York Times reports today, Malamud is teaming up with The Internet Archive to publish millions of…
Low Cost, High Return Marketing Tool
The New York Times makes it official: Blogging’s a Low-Cost, High Return Marketing Tool for small businesses, including law firms.
All together now: Duh-uh!…
Free Access to Older Mass. Cases
Via the Massachusetts Law Updates blog, the Massachusetts Trial Court Libraries announced today the completion of a project to provide free online access to all Supreme Judicial Court and Mass. Appeals Court cases from 1986 to 1996. (Cases starting in 1997 are already available through Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.) The cases are available…
Round-up of Recently Launched Sites
Law.com today features my most recent Web Watch column for Law Technology News, titled To Get Noticed Online, Blow Your Horn. It is a round-up of recently launched Web sites, including ones to help lawyers get noticed, keep informed, manage contacts and get research help.…