I got an early morning email from the ABA Journal today announcing some new features. The most intriguing one to me is Blawg Search: We’ve partnered with Justia.com, the leading legal information portal, to create a search engine covering all of the 1,800-plus blogs in our directory — including yours. It’s like Google for lawyers,…
I said I would give it an honest try, even though I didn’t really see the benefit. I have, and while I do see some benefits from FriendFeed, I’m just not nearly as big a fan as some others are. Yes, the ability to comment, or “like” stuff that the people you’re following in one…
Today at a local ILTA event, I saw a presentation about a company called Index Engines. They built enterprise search appliances, and one of their big sales pitches to the legal industry is that they can index from tape backups. This is somewhat huge. As it stands now, to do electronic discovery on data that…
I’ve been writing about technology on this blog for a long time. The first posts here date back to Oct. 2001. and while I don’t claim they are very good, I will claim to have been around the tech blogosphere for a very long time relatively speaking. Within the last year, however, as I’ve been…
With the weather turning toward Spring this week, and the rain holding off until tomorrow, I decided it was high time to get in a little walking to prepare for my commitment to walk the 5k Race for the Cure next month. Thanks to Gmaps Pedometer I can go back and figure out how far…
Tonight when I powered on my desktop PC, I was caught somewhat by surprise by Outlook asking me for my Gmail IMAP password. I fired up Twhirl at the same time and was somewhat surprised that it asked for my Twitter password as well, but I entered it and immediately tweeted to see if anyone…