With millions of blogs online and tens of thousands of new ones appearing daily, there is a need for tools to sort through the many new voices posting on the Net. Certainly traditional search engines like Google index the blogosphere, but there are other tools focused primarily on blogs. When I want a search
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G-mail and high volume electronic mailing lists (e.g. Solosez)
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There are lots of e-mail electronic discussion groups. Many have valuable information for lawyers. All Oklahoma Bar Sections have these lists available.
Solosez is a thriving electronic mailing list-based online community. It is for the benefit of solo and small firm lawyers and neither ABA membership or even a law degree is required to participate.
Forbes Best of the Web Directory
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Short reviews of over 3000 websites and blogs are featured in the Forbes Best of the Web Directory. It is quite a collection. For example, see the section on how to locate company documents on the Web. Thanks to beSpacific for the pointer.
Is Your Spyware Detector Being Censored?
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Check out Law Tech Guru’s post "How Good is Your Spyware Scanner?" He includes a link to a PC World article on the same topic. It seems that some adware companies are petitioning and threatening legal action to get their products removed from the databases of the various spyware/adware detection software packages. The result for…
GPSolo June Issue Features the Internet
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Check out the just-published June issue of GPSolo Technology & Practice Guide. It’s all about the Internet, from security to web marketing to the uses and abuses of e-mail. The issue is in your mailbox if you are an ABA General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section member or there’s an online version…
Faster Jumps to IE Favorites
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You probably have saved many links in your Favorites in Internet Explorer. Here’s a way to get to those sites you use most a little faster. Save a Web site as a Favorite in the root Favorites directory and give it a one- or two-letter name. Then you can type those letters into the browser…
Kentucky Contemplates the Fate of Their Lawyer Bloggers
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Earlier this year I welcomed Ben Cowgill’s Legal Ethics blog to the blogosphere. Now there has been a troubling development in Ben’s home state of Kentucky. It seems that the Kentucky Attorneys’ Advertising Commission wants to classify his blog as advertising, requiring him to do a filing and pay a $50 fee every time…
Sites of the Week – Mighell’s Inter Alia and Ambrogi’s LawSites
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This week Law Practice Tips features two Websites of the Week: Tom Mighell’s Inter Alia and Bob Ambrogi’s LawSites. These two sites should be in every lawyer’s RSS newsreader collection. If you’re not yet into RSS yet, you should bookmark both and visit them regularly. One a scale of 1 to 10, they are…
“60 Sites in 60 Minutes” Sites Posted
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We have now posted the links for the 2005 edition of "60 Sites in 60 Minutes" at the ABA TECHSHOW site. In keeping with tradition, we have posted not only the links to the sites we showed, but also to those that we had in reserve, but didn’t have time to show. So there are…
First Podcasting, Now Screencasting
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The Oklahoma City-based IP blog Phosita has just placed something cool on the Web. Using the software Camtasia Studio, OKC attorney Douglas J. Sorocco, has created a screencast as a demonstration of his firm’s blog and the power of Camtasia. Check it out and learn more about how Doug used Camtasia. I do…