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(27 Feb) Bob Ambrogi comments on a LexisNexis survey on lawyer productivity. "[A]mong lawyers, 80 percent report being overloaded with information and 70 percent say they spend too much time sifting through irrelevant information. Common symptoms of information overload for lawyers include spending too much time conducting research, having trouble recreating research time for billing purposes, and wasting time searching for old e-mails and documents."
SEE: LexisNexis Workplace Productivity Survey
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(3 Mar) The linked story is an update.
Last week, rumors started to fly about Ask dumping its search engineering team in favor of powering queries with Google's search engine. Ask says the rumors are false.
But the rumored layoffs have already started. Our friend and colleague, Gary Price, unfortunately is among them.
RELATED: What Is Ask.Com's New Strategy?
Wall Street Journal, 5 March 2008
RELATED: IAC Cuts 8% Of Ask.com & Kills Search Engine
Search Engine Land, 4 March 2008
RELATED: Updated: IAC Ready To Drop Ask.com Search Technology & Partner With Google?
Search Engine Land, 29 February 2008
RELATED: Ask.com not planning to scrap search: source
Reuters, 29 February 2008
(12 Feb) In the last part of a 5-part article, Jennifer Laycock of Search Engine Guide explains how Twitter is useful (and potentially indispensable) in spreading news. "[A] San Diego area TV station [last fall used] a Twitter feed to keep people updated about the wildfires burning their way through California.
Jennifer goes on to illustrate how college campuses could use the technology as an emergency alert service and how news media could use it to report traffic conditions and other news with real-time significance.
(6 Mar) Security researchers discovered more keywords that generate links to infected Web pages via Google. "[A]t time of writing, queries on Google for 'jamie presley,' 'mari misato' and 'risa coda' got one or more poisoned link in the first 10 results. More than 20,000 Google results contained such redirects, according to F-Secure, the antivirus firm."
Unrelated to this incident, but interestingly, Google engineer Matt Cutts, who published his predictions for 2008 a few days ago (see below), said, "2008 will be the year that hacking and search engine optimization (SEO) collide in a major way. By the end of the year, a nontrivial fraction of blackhat SEO will involve illegally hacking sites for links or landing pages."
SEE: My 2008 predictions
Matt Cutts, 3 March 2008
RELATED: ZDNet Asia and TorrentReactor IFRAME-ed
Dancho Danchev's Blog, 4 March 2008
("This currently ongoing malware embedded attack aimed at ZDNet Asia and TorrentReactor is very creative at the strategic level....")
(4 Mar) An editor at PC World relates a personal experience that should remind readers to take care with sensitive documents when using a public computer.
"I noticed a few odd files that shouldn't have even been there.... The managing director of a major financial institution just tendered her 90-day resignation notice.... The next file I found, a detailed set of papers proposing a company merger. It's even notated with changes required to the paperwork. Man, the law firm in the letterhead must be peeved."
Better than the advice given, use an encrypted USB drive when you travel with sensitive documents. Don't save the files to the local computer drive. The method the editor proposes only keeps out the honest.
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Archive-It: The Internet Archive offers a subscription service for entities that want to archive special collections and make them searchable, either publicly or privately. Newly added, is a full-text search feature that not only queries the public special collections but also collections in the Internet Archive. While the index isn't as current as the index for the Wayback Machine, it's now possible to search archived Web pages as well as other archived file formats by keyword. Searching and displaying the results is free of charge. (et)
Wayback Machine: The Internet Archive lets you search for archived Web pages by existing or former URL. You may limit search results by archived date or file type. You may also eliminate duplicates or merge aliases (the same Web page under different addresses). (et)
JD Supra: Founded by a lawyer, JD Supra "promotes the free exchange of information to benefit the legal community, legal consumers, the media and the general public." Legal professionals may register with the site to post court filings and other legal documents or articles. Once you post at least one document, you may also create a free profile. Others may search the documents and profiles for free. Documents are available for downloading in Word or PDF.
You may search documents by keyword, and then limit the retrieval by court, type of filing or subject matter.
Technical note: You must activate javascript to search this site. Free registration is required to display documents in full. (et)
Current Trademark Literature: Edited by University of Texas at Austin law librarian, Jane O'Connell, this resource helps legal professionals stay up to date with legal articles on trademark issues. The citation list appears in reverse chronological order. To display the first page of an article, follow the title link. Scanned images of the first page "will be deleted after 60 days." Lawyers and researchers may receive updates to the list via RSS. (et)
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