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See Jim Calloway’s links, from his post: Your Website: Getting the Attention of the Search Engines. Excerpt:

You finally got your law firm Web site online and waited for the new clients to come rolling in. But for some reason it just didn’t happen that way. Well, all of our marketing efforts are long term projects, with the possible exception of TV, radio and newspaper ads. Your marketing efforts will hopefully still pay off for years in the future. But the Internet is all about immediate gratification, right? So this week, I’ll have a bit of an online symposium on getting noticed by the search engines.

The first article is The ABCs of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) by two of my favorite people Sharon D. Nelson and John Simek of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. SEO is one of those terms that intimidates a lot of people. Sharon and John do a great job of explaining the basics in understandable language. Everyone should read this article even if you don’t have time to start your SEO project this week. And, remember that you don’t have to try all of these techniques….” (Read full post.)

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See also, Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law: An Opinionated Primer, by James Grimmelmann, New York Law School

See also: State of Oregon backs off claim that its law is copyrighted

(I last blogged about this here.)

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Final recount results are in, here.

Of course, there is also this:
Official Count from the Oregon Secretary of State’s election web page (which hasn’t been updated since the 11th, or so it says – it’s a mystery).

Last posted about here, here, and here

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I blogged about this some time ago, but maybe, maybe, …. See 6/25/08, Willamette Week Murmurs story:

Get me rewrite: Since Oregon’s founders wrote the state Constitution in 1857, much has changed. For instance, Article II, section 9, which disqualifies from public office “every person who shall give, or accept a challenge to fight a duel,” might need tweaking (Randy Leonard might be an exception). Thus this Monday, June 30, a House committee will hold a 10 am hearing in Salem on whether to hold an Oregon Constitutional Convention. Among those testifying: Bureau of Labor and Industries Commish Brad Avakian, who twice introduced bills when he was a lawmaker aimed at updating the state’s most important document. Now, he says Reps. Mitch Greenlick (D-Portland) and Chuck Riley (D-Hillsboro) will try to advance that effort. “It’s a tough political sell,” says Avakian. “But it’s time.”’ (link)

If you want to know more about this hearing:

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Most headline news stories would benefit from better analysis (not to mention better research) than they are generally given by journalists in 500-1,000 (or even 5,000) word articles and sex offender registration stories are at the top of that list.

For another “view of the cathedral”, (with apologies to Guido Calabresi) on this difficult subject, see f/k/a, who has been blogging thoughtfully on this subject for quite a while now.

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A peacock moved into my and my neighbors’ adjoining yards (in Mt. Tabor) a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with a legal research or law library angle on the situation.

(The fact that neighbor kids have named it Bismarck doesn’t help, except for the laugh factor. You know, that crested helmet thing, though how they got to Bismarck I’m not entirely sure, except for the perils of high school history textbooks nowadays. It also doesn’t help that peacocks are incredibly beautiful and fascinating to watch – especially the way they watch US from their high perches, fences, trees, etc. Do we really want him to go away?)

But, I have said I can find a legal research / law library angle to just about anything in life, so here goes:

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In less than 3 weeks, about 2,000 law librarians (including the law lib bloggers) and their families will be converging on the Portland Metro area for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). This is a lot more exciting than you might imagine (and very good for local businesses and the tourism sector).

In honor of the Descent of the Law Librarians, Jenn Dalglish, Clackamas County Law Librarian, and I, Washington County Law Librarian, will talk about all things Law Librarian (a lot more fun than you might imagine!) on the public, cable-access TV program:

Legally Speaking,” on TVCTV, June 26th, 8-9 p.m. (live) (reruns thereafter):49 minutes of Fast Talking about Law Libraries, With Call-In Possibilities.

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I have been writing directions to the Green Dragon from downtown for about 40+ law librarian bloggers who will be showing up in Portland in mid-July. (Uber Portland law professor blogger Jack Bogdanski will be our guest speaker – yeah! – and local bloggers are welcome to join us if they can take the heat of being surrounded by all those super smart, super geeky, but very cool law librarians 🙂

The bus directions are easy, but what about walking across the Morrison Bridge, in this city of pedestrians?

Now I’m a serious walker (but not much of a hiker – go figure), and it occurred to me that I had never walked across the Morrison Bridge. Now I know why. See this fabulous blog post on “How to walk the Morrison Bridge and not die, probably.”

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