I came across this Free Teleprompter while browsing the law librarian blogs, and this one, AbsTracked, in particular.
I’m not sure how you would use it, without looking as if you are, ah, reading a teleprompter (not always a pretty sight), but one never knows, does one?
As I walked out of a local store this past weekend I nearly tripped over a chicken, who was probably out for lunch (lots of veggie restaurants in my neighborhood).
This reminded me that we’re probably due for our annual “How many chickens can I keep on my property?” question. With prices for eggs and, sorry, chicken going up, the question may arise sooner rather than later.
Instead of giving The Answer, and there is seldom just one, I recommend you look up or contact one (or more) of the following:
From Neat New Stuff comes this lead to Rules of Thumb. There is a Lawyer category but not a Librarian one. Most of these Rules of Thumb are kind of silly, but legal researchers sometimes need the darndest things. Most interesting to me is the design of the web site, which is not bad at all for this sort of information.
From their About This Site:
“The goal of this website is to gather every rule of thumb on earth into one gargantuan, easily searchable online reference database that will be accessible from anywhere in the world and continue to grow forever.”
A Study of Dictionaries in U.S. and Latin American Courts
I first read about this article at the Foreign Collection Development blog, and then found a link to the full article here (and thank you Colorado Lawyer for reprint rights!)
The Oregon Supreme Court is going to hear the Special Session case on Friday, February 1, 2008. From this Oregonian news report, on Tuesday.
“The case has been fast-tracked through the courts. Briefs are due tomorrow and Thursday with arguments on Friday. Legislators are scheduled to convene on Monday.”
A few lawyers aren’t going to get any sleep tonight – or tomorrow night.
More for new Oregon lawyer bloggers: see here and here too.
These are baby steps I talk about here, but you have to start somewhere:
Tracking statistics: Google Analytics and FeedBurner are the easiest and the most popular.
I have friends who attend (and love) the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and always try to encourage me to do likewise. But, when I ask if ISWF offers sessions on blogging, the answer is always no (despite the fact that a large percentage of their student body probably blog about their own ISWF experiences). Is blogging not worthy of attention by excellent writing instructors and the ISWF?
Writing a good blog is a lot harder than it appears. For now, let’s look at the blawgs on the ABA Journal Blawg 100. (Yes, there are other Top 10, 20, 25, etc. lists of terrific blawgers and the nice thing is, you are free to make your own list, without being influenced by others’ lists or by things like this and this.)
What do you tell lawyers who ask you about blogging? Top of my list are these:
· Read other lawyers blogs (the good, the bad, and the ugly – content and style matter)
· Read some of the best of the lawyers who write ABOUT blogging. I include these to start with, but there are others:
You can now go online to register your wish to become an organ donor. For more information, go to:
** Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (HB 3092), 2007 Oregon Laws 681
An editorial (commentary/opinion) in the 1/25/08 Oregonian, “A costly wreck in need of a cleanup,” by Steve Tackett-Nelson, President of the Oregon Psychiatric Association, about mental health care in Oregon:
Excerpt from full article:
“Over the past 30 years there has been a quiet movement to criminalize being mentally ill while indigent. No law was enacted, no edicts issued. But the unplanned effect of isolated events has been a gradual drift in public policy. And unplanned drift can have expensive consequences; remember the last voyage of the New Carissa.
