Articles Posted in November, 2005

Google Base: In a never ending quest to make information accessible, there is now Google Base. Interesting. Why are we so suspicious – hmmmm?

ERISA: I hope you check out the Inter-Alia blog on a regular basis. It’s chock-full of interesting and useful links. It’s quick to read too, even if you don’t RSS (to RSS is human, to Podcast divine). Today, Tom links to an interesting ERISA and Disability Law blawg. Happy Monday.

Washington County Government Attorney Job Opening: Senior Assistant County Counsel job announcement has been posted at the County’s HR web site, here.

WEX: What else could Wex be but an open source legal dictionary and encyclopedia – under development. Posted on BeSpacific, an excellent way to stay abreast of law and technology news.

Get Back in that Box: One of my favorite blogs for solo and small law firm practitioners is MyShingle. On Nov 16th, MyShingle links to a wise and funny article about all you folks out there trying to “think outside the box,” and recommending that you get back inside.

Actually folks …. This isn’t strictly, actually, literally a legal research web site, but it may make you think a bit more, really, about how you actually, like talk and literally write. It’s very funny too. So stop with the actually, literally, like, and their ilk. “Literally” has its own web site now. And here’s one on legal writing too. But don’t forget to comment if the blogger gets it wrong. It’s your actual, literal, right – like wow.

Marion County Law Library: The Marion County Law Library will be closed, along with the Courthouse, until further notice. OSB’s web site is a good place to check for information as well as the Marion County courthouse web site.

Keeping up with the High Tech times: What’s peering, multimodalilsm, or “disruptive technology?” Even if your answer is, “I haven’t a clue,” make time to learn. One of the best pieces of advice given to me in the late 80’s (when I too hadn’t much of a clue about technology, other than email and FTP) was to subscribe to a computer magazine, any computer magazine. Most of it would be unintelligible in the beginning, but by the 3rd or 4th month and beyond, you’d discover that you’d learned an awful lot, painlessly. (This system is not unlike someone I know who learned English by reading pornography to minimize the boredom factor. Smart guy. Friend of my parents. Of course this was 50 years ago and porno seems to have changed bit – maybe not so “highbrow” now some might say?) So read Isen Blog, Dennis Kennedy, and GigaLaw, to name only 3 lawyer techies in a field of dozens, hundreds, thousands.

Paper or Plastic, Print or Wexis? Law students still prefer online legal research even when their print research is more successful. See today’s (11/14) post on Out of the Jungle, “Another Nail in the Coffin.”

Employment law blog: I’m trying out this “Jottings of an Employer’s Lawyer” blog. I try out a lot of blogs for a few weeks. Some sink of their own weight (too many words, too many postings, too esoteric, or just simply too much of everything, crying out plaintively for an editor with a big red pen) and others are just perfect for keeping up with what is in the corners of the web.