Sunday, February 16, 2003"'Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time': This article from today's edition of The Mercury News reports that Google has purchased the company that created Blogger software and Blog*Spot hosting. Perhaps Web logs will turn out to be more than just a passing fad?" [How Appealing] Widely reported, so just noted here.
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Blawger Welcome Wagon. Ernie the Attorney recently announced that his wife, attorney Monique Svenson, has joined the blawgosphere with her Products Liability Blawg, launched this weekend. Welcome, and best of luck, Monique!
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Custom ActiveWords Script for Legal Research. I've been using ActiveWords for the past month, and it's already become one of those can't-live-without programs. With ActiveWords, you assign words to launch programs, jump to websites, send e-mail, substitute text, and much more (for an in-depth discussion of what ActiveWords is and how to use it, see this post by Ernie the Attorney). You can even write your own scripts, which is what Roy Salvagio, a computer whiz who works at the law firm and is getting ready to start law school, did. As a way to prepare for law school and earn a little extra cash, Roy has written several ActiveWords scripts (called WordBases), which are available for download at his website (it's the honor system -- download and try them, and if you want to keep them, pay $20 through PayPal here). The WordBases Roy created pull up Louisiana, Texas, and federal online statutes instantly, on the fly. He's even written a script to look up lawyers through Martindale-Hubbell. Try it, you'll like it.
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