Robert Ambrogi

Is a Massachusetts lawyer, writer and media consultant. He also writes the blog Media Law and cohosts the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer

New blog digests all Maryland cases

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A new blog, Maryland Courts Watcher, provides synopses of every publicly available opinion published on the Internet by any court in Maryland. This includes the Court of Appeals, the Court of Special Appeals, the U.S. District Court, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the Maryland Tax Court, the Circuit Court for Baltimore City and opinions of…

Use this desktop search tool in e-discovery

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Electronic discovery. This was the use that kept coming to my mind as I tested dtSearch, an immensely fast and powerful desktop and enterprise search tool. Its marketing tagline is, “Instantly search terabytes of text.” I can’t vouch for terabytes, but after testing it on a single laptop, I can say it is the…

As a blogger, don’t box me in

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In my experience, the most interesting blogs are often the most difficult to categorize. The authors feel free to write about what they fancy. A lawyer may blog about a current trial, a favorite movie, a good band. An obvious example is popular blogger Ernie the Attorney. He writes about law, technology, music, spirituality,…

What every blogger should have

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In the spirit of citizen journalism, arm every blogger with one of these: the amazing Nokia N93. DVD-quality video and 3.2 megapixel camera in a full-featured Bluetooth phone with support for RSS, e-mail attachments, etc., etc., and an optional full wireless keyboard.…

Use ‘tag clouds’ to analyze documents

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Tag Crowd is a site that lets you create tag clouds for any document. Tag clouds are those clusters of variously sized words you see on many blogs and on Web sites such as Flickr. Usually, they are used to display the labels attached to blog posts or images and their frequency. But…

A ‘media room’ for smaller firms

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Many large firm Web sites have “media rooms” — pages devoted to news releases, press contacts, factsheets, event listings, logos and other information useful to the news media. But what about the rest of us? A new Web service, MyMediaRoom, enables anyone — individuals and organizations — to add a media room to a…