Monday, October 31, 2011

HeinOnline App Now Available

The free HeinOnline App is now available for both the iPhone and iPad. This subscription based resource provides access to digtized archival documents including but not limited to the Federal Register, CFR, law review articles, ABA articles and much more.  Account authentication is required for access.

Entertainment Law Blog

The Entertainment Law Matters blog covers the disputes and developments in the film, television, publishing, theatre, music, art, gaming, and fashion industries. Worth monitoring if your practice includes this area of law.

IP Law Blog

IP In Brief blog covers the "latest innovations, new technologies and new media that continue to change and reshape copyright and trademark law".

Social Media Law Blog

Now that the use of social media is nearly ubiquitous it may behoove you to keep up with the law of this important technological advancement. The Cozen O'Connor Social Media Employment Law Blog can help you. Voted a Top 25 Blog in 2011 by LexisNexis it covers current and developing issues in social media and employment law.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Labor and Employment Blawg

EmploymentandLaborInsider.com blawg provides practical articles on current employment and labor issues. The blawg is maintained by Constancy Brooks & Smith LLP.

Need to Search the Twitter Archive?

Topsy.com is another real time social media search engine, but  it also has an advanced search page allowing you to limit your search by date, language, a specific type of data (i.e. tweets, photos, or videos), within a partciular Web site only, or within a Twitter users page. The date limit thus allows a search of past comments made by a Twitter user.

Real Time Searches

IceRocket.com allows real time searching of blogs, Twitter, Facebook or images for up-to-the-minute social media postings on a topic.

DuckDuckGoose er Go!

DuckDuckGo.com is a gneral purpose search engine but also provides "goodies" or templates for performing quick specialized searches such as mathematical calculations and conversions, and locating facts to name a few.