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LexMonitor launched, important discussion ensues
Last week, while I was recovering from what could best be described as an intellectual hangover after the SLA conference in Seattle, Kevin O’Keefe from LexBlog released a web tool called LexMonitor. As Kevin describes it: LexMonitor is a free daily review of law blogs and journals highlighting prominent legal discussion as well as the lawyers and [...]
Yahoo Alpha
Yahoo has really impressed me lately. The drag-and-drop, and ajax components they’ve added to their fantasy baseball system are great. It makes it really easy to track players, make lineup changes and the like. The Yahoo page I see when I visit has the link for Fantasy MLB larger than all the other links on [...]
OpenCongress.org
Smart Mobs points us to OpenCongress.org. OpenCongress is an interesting mashup type site that aggregates content about the US Congress. It takes official data from Thomas and includes tracking data from GovTrack. It also aggregates news and blog information about representatives, bills, and issues. The website has a great interface and makes it easy to locate information about [...]
Some new mashup tools
I wanted to wait until after I tried them out a little bit before I commented on them. So here it goes…   First, Yahoo released Yahoo Pipes. Pipes is a very cool tool for creating mashups without having to create them programmatically. In other words you use a visual interface to create the applications you [...]
Library of Congress weekly list RSS feeds
The Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification weekly lists are now available as RSS feeds. You can access them from the main LOC RSS page. This is fantastic, and a great way to keep track of subject heading and classification changes. Some of these can be significant. Last year LOC added KF8902.E42 for electronic discovery in [...]
New Legal Research Tool and RSS tutorial update
Justia makers of BlawgSearch and Blawgs.fm have released a federal district court filings and docket search. This looks very cool. The search is good, you can also narrow down through specific courts, by case types and subscribe to the RSS feeds for your search results. This could be a very useful tool, and there are a [...]
RSS Feeds Success!
I have been trying for awhile to create RSS feeds for the Oregon SLA website. The process has taken a long time. Outputting valid RSS feeds from the database using ColdFusion has proved difficult. The outputting itself was easy, what was difficult was getting it to come out valid. Finally I was able to get [...]
RSS Tools
David Rothman has a list of some good RSS to Web page tools along with examples of the output they produce. Robin Good also lists his picks for RSS tools that perform various functions. These are two lists of very cool RSS tools to keep track of and become familiar with.Technorati Tags: rss
RSS in 3D
From Microsoft Watch comes word of a new RSS reader that allows you to see your RSS feeds in a 3D visual presentation. The application, called UniveRSS, is specifically designed for Windows Vista. They call it a showcase application that demonstrates some of the various new visualization and presentation technologies included with Vista. I’m not upgrading any [...]
Way to go Ohio
The Law Librarian blog reports on some interesting developments in Ohio. First, Ohio Supreme Court is allowing users to track state cases, and get the tracking alerts delivered in RSS. Next, the Ohio Supreme Court is providing digital images of case documents. Very cool. Few courts are providing RSS feeds for case tracking, and opinion information, but the [...]