Freeware Utilities: Looking for the “best-ever” web browser, anti-virus software, or firewall. Include this site , 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities, in your research (and I assume you will do lots of research before loading anything free onto your computer). I found this at this blog, Neat New Stuff, which rarely disappoints. It takes about a minute to check it once a week and it always seems to have something useful, informative, or fun, if not all three, e.g. the IVR Cheat Sheet.
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Web Design v Web Marketing: These are two different things. When you search the web as much as librarians do (how many reference questions an hour x 40 hours?) you get a little cranky about web design and readability. If you have any control over your web site (not all of us do and we understand that), please read as much as you can bear about web site readability (which is different from usablity, another important factor to consider). It’s not at all hard to search “web mistakes readability or design or mistakes” online. The latest one I’ve looked at is this. It has lots of examples and is itself easy and fast to read, but there are hundreds of others. You’ll get to know the guru of Usability, but feel free to find your own. And then there’s Edward Tufte for those who are artists at heart.
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Tasini v Clinton: Jonathan Tasini is about to challenge Hillary Clinton in the primary for her Senate seat. Let the games begin. Whatever else happens, we’ll always have Tasini (Tasini v New York Times, U.S. S. Ct. 2001).
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Guzek Argument: Oregon v Guzek (04-928) is scheduled for argument in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, Dec 7th, 2005. The Supreme Court web page is here. The opinion below is 86 P3d 1106 (Or. 2004). Additional information on the Guzek case can be found at the inimitable SCOTUSblog.
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Daily List of Blawgs: An article by Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell in Law Practice Today has an excellent list of 19 law practice management blogs to check regularly (no, daily isn’t necessary – maybe 3-4 a day is good and manageable).
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Shaggy Dog Archive
Shaggy Dog stories: You never know when you might need one of these, the Web’s First Shaggy Dog Archive. Aren’t shaggy dog stories up there with Aesop’s fables and Greek myths? Every well educated lawyer needs to have a well stocked store of them. Nu?
And then there is this: the Law Librarian and the FBI, A Shaggy Dog Tale: PARTS ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE and SIX
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Bates v Gordon: The concealed handgun case the Oregonian reported on Nov 28th can be found at 201 Or App 629 (opinion dated 9/28/05) at the OJD website.
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How Appealing: One blog that really needs to be checked regularly if you keep up with current legal events or with federal law is Howard Bashman’s How Appealing. This blog has its own style and you’ll need to decide for yourself how to keep up with it. I think of it as a new-age wire service and dip into it as needed periodically. If you’re in federal practice, you probably need to check it more regularly than that.
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Oregon cases in the U.S. Supreme Court: The Statesman Journal online edition today has a story about 3 Oregon cases that are up before the U.S. Supreme Court: Gonzales v Oregon (assisted suicide #04-623), Oregon v Guzek (death penalty #04-928), and Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon (detained foreigners and the right to remain silent #04-10566).
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More about Blog Titles: The Stark County Law Library blog also talks about this important subject and has links to GreatNexus for some blog-naming tips and links. Hmmm … Stark County Law Lib blog has great stuff and I check it regularly. Now why don’t *they* have a catchier title? One reason is that we public servants have a bit (!) less room to be creative with our job-related blogs than those who blog off-hours or who work for themselves. And then there are those law professors and Article III Groupies. Blog life would be a lot duller without them, wouldn’t it, eh.