Real Lawyers Have Blogs – “FindLaw appears to have been caught gaming Google by selling links to lawyer websites and, in the words of one blogger, possibly scamming their lawyer customers. And, as of Friday evening, it appears Google has already taken steps to penalize FindLaw.”
San Jose Mercury News – “One local librarian called “on behalf of 10 others” to question the description. But it didn’t end there. The Internet is a far-reaching thing, stretching into libraries across the globe, which linked the story to the American Library Association electronic newsletter. Oh, boy. Heather Bistyga, a reference librarian in Greenville, S.C., eloquently put us in our place for perpetuating “an unfortunate stereotype about librarians.”
Yahoo! News – “A fledgling Web site called Mygazines.com encourages people to copy and upload popular magazines that are currently on newsstands. Visitors can read high-quality digital copies of dozens of current titles, including People, Men’s Health and The Economist, in their entirety.”
Examiner – The Allegany County Library System’s board of trustees has voted to ban weapons, handguns or firearms from its branches.
Does this (and more from this Flickr user) photo breach ALA’s Trademark on READ?
Great conversation going on over on Friendfeed about business cards and using MLS on business cards.
Bookslut – “Awhile ago, my husband Brian said “wouldn’t it be funny if you were sitting on the subway reading a book and on the front cover it said, How to Murder a Complete Stranger and Get Away with It? Imagine what people around you would think, especially when you finally finished the book”.
LawyerKM – “Westlaw even has a Twitter account that you can follow, if you like.”
Artstechnica – “[T]he works that are most in need of preservation are likely to already be damaged or distorted, making the use of automated scanning and text processing less likely to succeed. Researchers are now reporting on a successful way to identify the words that computers can’t handle: turn them into CAPTCHAs, and get people to do the work.”
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