Some recent Google items
Google is always releasing new features or apps. Here's a rundown of some released recently that may have relevance for lawyers…
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Google Wave
This is the biggie that some say is a bust. It deserves — and will get — a more thorough review here in due course, once I've learned how to use it. In the meantime, look at Lifehacker to see what it's about; and danieltenner.com to understand better what it might do for firms.
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Sidewiki
This is a new feature for the Google Toolbar, available for IE and Firefox browsers, that lets you put annotations about a website in a sidebar, so that others who have Sidewiki can see them upon visiting the annotated site. As a publisher of a website, I dislike this idea; I do not want uncontrolled content popping up in intimate connection with Slaw, even it it's clear to anyone with half a brain that the Sidewiki material is not the product of Slaw…  [more on Sidewiki]
At the moment there aren't any Sidewiki notes attached to Slaw, so I don't need to look for ways to frustrate Google's interference. I can see that the ability to annotate some material would be useful at times. The best current example for law, perhaps, is LexUM's annotated Civil Code. It might be interesting to extend the idea somewhat by allowing annotations — done via Twitter, say — to certain judgments.
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Google Docs Viewer
You can now use Google Docs to read any PDF, PPT, or TIFF online document. As well, you can create links to any of these documents such that clicking on the link opens it in Docs Viewer. Even more handy, perhaps, is this bookmarklet from Noscope that lets you open a PDF, PPT or TIFF link in the Viewer with two clicks.
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Shared Folders in Google Docs
To share a group of documents in Google Docs you can now place them in a folder and share that folder. It's a simple process and the instructions given via the link above are quite clear.
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These summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book.
More information.
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This is a listing of a few upcoming events in Canada of interest to lawyers, law students, legal librarians, and others involved in the practice of law.
Clicking on any event in the list below will give you access to more information and to links allowing you to see the full entry and to add the event to your own calendar.
Click this link for a fuller version of the TalkLaw/ParLoi calendar of events and for instructions as to how to add events and calendars to your own calendar.
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I surely understand why many webmasters don't like SideWiki and fear that competitors will use it to add comments to your site that will be as helpful as the comments that graffiti artists add to bathroom walls.
You should monitor the SideWiki comments on your own site(s) closely and act promptly on negative comments. There are now tools available that can monitor SideWiki comments for you, and alert you when new comments are posted.
http://www.updatepatrol.com/monitor-sidewiki-comments-and-sidewiki-alerts.html
Thank you for the update, Simon. I also find the way you formatted this post to be interesting. Did you do that manually, or use one of the tools you mentioned?
Cheers,
Connie
I did it manually, Connie. It would have been cooler, I agree, to have used something Google makes to make it look like Google.
Regardless, it is quite clever. And inspiring!