I’m linking, I hope, to a story about Google having won the competition (over Yahoo and MSN) to provide search services to the most popular site on the web – myspace.com. How one CNN Video “links to the CNN Video on the topic is a matter I haven’t worked out.

Better to read Business Week . . . [more]

Rejoice all you BlackBerry users:

CanWest MediaWorks and Rogers Wireless today announced the launch of bbTV, the first media player to deliver content for BlackBerry® in Canada. bbTV will offer Rogers Wireless customers access to near TV quality synchronized audio and video files of leading CanWest MediaWorks content, including breaking and daily news from Global News, Global National, Global Morning and the Financial Post. In addition, bbTV will provide daily sports information and commentary from Rogers Sportsnet, Canada’s number one regional sports service.

To help bring this new technology to market, CanWest has partnered with Rogers Wireless to provide the

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Periodically Technorati surveys the state of the Blogosphere. The pictures here are amazing, but the summary tells its own story of amazing growth.

Technorati is now tracking over 50 Million Blogs.
The Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago.
Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size every 200 days, or about once every 6 and a half months.
English language blogs have recaptured the linguistic lead – last survey, Japanese blogs were in the lead.
About 175,000 new weblogs were created each day, which means that on average, there are more than 2 . . . [more]

Next month in San Francisco, the College of Law Practice Management will meet to consider some interesting empirical studies on why law firms – especially in North America – seem so slow to innovate.

The working paper published this month seeks comments.

I’ve been spending part of my summer on a research project looking at innovation in US law firms, or the lack thereof. According to the interviews I’ve been conducting with lawyers, consultants, and law practice administrators, law firms may be some of the least innovative organizations in the US economy.

This is partially due to the nature of

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Courtesy of Todd BennettWest Coast head librarian for Thelen Reid & Priest here is what’s been filling his days in dog-familiar August

The list wouldn’t be that off North of the 49th parallel:

Teaching young attorneys how to do legal research in the real world

Warning summer associates about are the drawbacks of Googleization

Meeting with the firm’s chief information officer, to whom our library directly reports

Approving this week’s batch of library invoicesHe notes two myths:

There are two modern myths that many of us grew up with that I find are complete lies. One myth is that computers

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As promised a few weeks ago, WorldCat.org is now online and ready to take your searches.

By the way, Frederick G. Kilgour, who founded OCLC in 1967, the organization that produces WorldCat, died last week at the age of 92. You can read the N.Y. Times obituary to learn more about this remarkable innovator. . . . [more]

I’m not often kind to Microsoft. Oh I try to keep my skepticism, shall we say, in check here on Slaw, but left to my own devices, as I am at home, I live the smug life of the switcher, using Firefox on my Mac and forgetting to worry about virus protection. But inovation happens at MS too, and this Fillip is about one of their rather more remarkable achievements, Photosynth.

Photosynth has the ability to unify a number of images by identifying common reference points and building a combined image out of the parts. This might not sound . . . [more]

An article in today’s Globe and Mail came to attention this morning, and I thought it may be of interest (though not necessarily news) to Slaw readers, perhaps in particular other Canadians and Wikipedia users. It seems a young man from Ottawa, Simon Pulsifer, is Wikipedia’s “busiest contributor”, having created 2000-3000 articles under his own name and edited 78,000 others, according to the Globe article.

I say this is not necessarily news as the Globe by no means broke this story: a quick web (not wikipedia) search on Mr. Pulsifer yielded several interviews and articles from earlier in the year . . . [more]

IPRsonline.org is an internet portal on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Sustainable Development. It contains a selection of relevant online documents and resources related to IPRs and sustainable development including a guide to IPRs, proposals submitted to the WTO, discussion papers classified by topics, a calendar of IPRs related events, latest news on IPRs, and links to listservs and relevant institutions working on IPRs.

Here are three sites dealing with international human rights that have recently come to my attention (thanks to Lo-Fi Librarian, Law Librarian Blog, and a third source that's slipped off my screen).

I’ve been watching the dial creep up – like a teenager wondering if they’ll be in a car when the odometer clicks over.

And Slaw’s Grand Day is upon us. A thousand posts is a respectable number, by any one’s count.

So a few thanks –

First to Simon Fodden – the other Simon – whose brain child this was, and who has stuck with us through thick and thin, and dedicated his significant technical and cultural skills to making this networked community work.

To our Slaw core, who’ve exposed their brains, their passions – and their quirks –

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At my wife’s library, the new books contained one by an unexpected author – at least in the poetry section – Lazar Sarna

Lazar Sarna’s He Claims He Is the Direct Heir$14.95 paper 0-88984-282-3, 72 pp., 6 x 9, The Porcupine’s Quill, Nov. 2005 introduces a new tone of voice into Canadian poetry. It is wry and droll, an unexpected melange of Jewish humour and Surrealism.

This led me to wonder about other lawyer poets – I guess that many of the Slaw Readers who slogged through Professor Black’s tome on Admiralty Law never knew about his other life as . . . [more]