Legal Research

Twitter Digest

Posted on February 22, 2008
Twitter Digest lets you read Twitter updates in a more manageable fashion. Just pick the usernames youd like to generate a digest for, and you will see all updates made by them during the past full day (GMT). At midnight, a [...]

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on February 22, 2008
iPodulator - iPod friendly pages, enter a URL into the iPodulator (love the name!!) and it will convert to a plain page of text, this can then be saved and uploaded to your iPod. Twixtr - share photos on Twixtr and automatically update your Twitter, Facebook and Flickr...

Extending Your Collections

Posted on February 21, 2008
Michael Sauers, aka the Travellin Librarian, posted about how the Nebraska Library Commission has started to add works under the Creative Commons license to their catalogue. This got me thinking, there are probably (and Im guessing here) not many CCd law books...

The BookScans Database

Posted on February 21, 2008
Scanned images of vintage paperbacks. The goal of the Bookscans Project is to provide a visual catalog of ALL vintage American paperbacks (for my purposes, this is roughly the first 20 years of paperback-sized books) A [...]

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law.librarians

Posted on February 21, 2008
A little while back I posted about the law.librarians experiment, a collaborative micro-blogging venture that I invited a number of law librarians to join me in. I thought Id post a short update to let you all know how its going and maybe inspire you to join us...

Libraries Micro-Blogging

Posted on February 20, 2008
Better Practices From the Field: Micro-Blogging for Science Technology Libraries. Recommendations from Joe Murphy of Kline Science Library, Yale University. Yale Science Library on Twitter. Via Resource Shelf. Bookmark to:

Podcasts

Posted on February 19, 2008
I love podcasts, they are perfect for passing the time on a noisy train. Below are a selection of legal, parliamentary and plain old news podcasts that I have been investigating. If you have any good recommendations please leave a comment. (Click pics for links to iTunes)...

Twimbler

Posted on February 18, 2008
Twimbler is a Tumblelog that you update via Twitter. You dont need to set anything up, just prefix your Tweets with #log: and then post the link and comment you want to add. To view go to http://www.twimbler.com/yourTwitterusername. Could be a nice way to link blog without reposting things you would be adding to Twitter [...

Tasty

Posted on February 16, 2008
Tasty provides information on how people have tagged a site in del.icio.us. You can get the same information in the form of a tag cloud in del.icio.us itself, but Tasty puts it in a nice graph and lets you instantly see how popular certain tags are. Bookmark to:

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on February 16, 2008
FFXporter - plug-in for iPhoto, lets you easily upload to Flickr (Mac). Sendto Flickr - free download, adds a send to Flickr option when you right click (Windows). FotoFlexer Pro - online photo editor now offering free pro tools. Videoembed - Greasemonkey user script automatically embeds videos so you can view without clicking links...

Wildys Get RSS!

Posted on February 13, 2008
Wildys have introduced RSS feeds for new title and new editions. Get it here! My life just got a whole lot easier. Bookmark to:

TwitPic

Posted on February 10, 2008
TwitPic lets you easily add photos to your Tweets. Upload to TwitPic, add your comment and then post. TwitPic provides a link to your photo and a page of all the photos youve uploaded to the service. Bookmark to:

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on February 09, 2008
Twitterific Beta 3.1b3 - New version of the Mac Twitter client from Iconfactory. HelloTxt - microblog to multiple services, including Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook and Tumblr. Thatsmymouse - chat with others on a web page using little speech bubbles that follow your cursor...

law.librarians

Posted on February 05, 2008
A bit of an experiment is going on over at www.lawlibrarians.wordpress.com. This is a collaborative blog using the Prologue Wordpress theme that allows for a sort of cross between blogging and Tweeting. Contributors can blog straight from the front page (see screenshot below)...

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on February 02, 2008
Bookmarked: Auto Save Text to Cookie - Firefox extension (Windows and Linux). Automatically saves and restores text from forms and textareas. Would have come in handy during the great HMRC tax returns fiasco. Get it for next year. Control C - online clipboard with a social networking aspect...

Library 2.0 Playlist

Posted on January 28, 2008
InfoSciPhi has put together a YouTube playlist of the Library 2.0 videos. Worth checking out. Bookmark to:

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on January 25, 2008
Bookmarked this week: Speed Dial - Firefox add-on. Similar to that in Opera, create a speed dial page for calling up your fave websites speedily. Text Mining Tool - Freeware Windows program, extract text from web pages, PDFs etc. TUGZip - unzip and archive lots and lots of different formats (inc...

LASSIEs Facebook Report

Posted on January 25, 2008
LASSIE (Libraries and Social Software in Education) has published its Facebook report. Makes for some interesting reading, Im just a bit disappointed they didnt wait to publish until a bit more research had been done on Facebook pages. Other case studies available via their project page include: resource sharing and social software and blogging and [...

Social Networks on LLRX

Posted on January 23, 2008
Ha! Got you all excited there, you thought LLRX had introduced a social network. That would be cool, but it just isnt true and I refuse to lie to you. There is, however, a nice article introducing social networks with examples of how some libraries and librarians are using them...

Todos

Posted on January 23, 2008
Nice little Mac app. Access all your applications from a beautiful shiny pop-up. Todos adds a little icon to your menu bar, alternatively access with Command-Option-Control-T hot key. Bookmark to:

Florida Lawyers Blog Watch

Posted on January 23, 2008
Florida Lawyers Blog Watch is the latest offering from Steve Matthews of Stem Legal. Now, I know next to nothing about U.S. law, but I do know there is a place called Florida and that there must be lawyers there. Armed with this knowledge I am sure that this RSS driven aggregation of the 50 most [...

BAILII Widgets?

Posted on January 23, 2008
Orchestr8 is pretty clever stuff (I think). It lets you clip bits of web pages and create widgets which means you can sort of keep up-to-date with pages lacking RSS feed. My first thought was BAILII! BAILIIs recent decisions page is a gift, but sadly bereft of feed...

Copac Again

Posted on January 22, 2008
From Copac News: We have started adding extra content to many Copac records. This includes: Reviews Tables-of contents Summaries Author biographical details Links to related web sites, such as an authors own web site Suggested reading age and interest age Impressed yet again...

Weekend Review 2

Posted on January 20, 2008
Charon speaks to Carl Gardener (Head of Legal), Tim Kevan (ex-Barrister Blog), Dr Peter Groves (consultant with Bircham Dyson Bell) and Simon Myerson QC (Pupillage and how to get it). Weekend Review. Bookmark to:

Library Arcade!

Posted on January 19, 2008
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries have developed Library Arcade: The Library Arcade features games designed to help students develop research skills through entertaining and easy-to-repeat activities. At this stage, we are testing each game to work through any technical glitches and prepare the games for a final version...

Charon Podcast with Nick Holmes

Posted on January 19, 2008
Been waiting for this one. Charon interviews Nick Holmes of Binary Law. Views on the legal web, blogging, social networking and more. Listen here. Bookmark to:

ECJ Blog

Posted on January 19, 2008
ECJ Blog by Allard Knook, a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Constitutional and Administrative Law, University of Utrecht. This has been going since 2006, but Ive only just stumbled upon it. Useful links to case law and news, worth a bookmark. Bookmark to:

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on January 19, 2008
Taskado - project manager with a surprising amount of functionality. Break projects down into tasks and milestones, assign work to the project team, share documents and blog updates. Very simple to use and no downloads. Google Calendar: now available on your Firefox sidebar - instructions from Download Squad...

iGoogle Themes

Posted on January 16, 2008
A directory of iGoogle Themes is now available, with some pretty new additions. Adventure in Lollipopland is doing it for me. Bookmark to:

The Future of Ideas is Free

Posted on January 16, 2008
Lawrence Lessigs The Future of Ideas is now available free under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license and can be downloaded here. Respect to Random House. Bookmark to:

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