Posts Tagged ‘Internet’

Internet Sources and Legal Blogs in Court Decisions

Law blogs, referred to as “blawgs” by some, are being cited in court decisions in the U.S. (to the cyber-challenged, the term “blog” is a contraction of the words “web log”). As reflected in a collection of court cases that cite legal blogs, there are 32 citations of legal blogs from 27 different cases in [...]

Blogging Students of Law

By “students of law”, I’m referring not only to law students, but also to lawyers and non-lawyers who are interested about the law. From time to time, we point to blogs of “students of law”. The last time we did that was middle of 2007, when we pointed to the blogs of Macka, [...]

Blog Etiquette and Netiquette

A recent comment caught my attention because it was written in ALL CAPS (or everything was in capital letters). This, in internet language, is equivalent to shouting and unless this is made in the proper context, it’s definitely rude and offensive. This is just an illustration of internet etiquette that we should be mindful of.
So, [...]

Blawggers, Hazing and Fraternities

Many blawggers have cleared the path even before I stumbled on blogging almost two years ago. Lately, I’ve discovered a number of blawgs, and I use this term loosely to refer to blogs that are written by lawyers or students of law.

Google-searching the Supreme Court

Once upon a time, if you do a search at the Supreme Court website for cases or jurisprudence, all you get are decisions or resolutions Supreme Court. You can click, read and quote right away, which is good if you don’t have the luxury of time. The only thing you’ll have to watch out is [...]

Google-search for SEC: This site may harm your computer

Let’s say you’re planning to register a corporation and you’re looking for the SEC website to search for information. If you google-search for “SEC“, you’ll discover that Google has added a tag which reads: “This site may harm your computer.” The actual search result looks like this:

Blogging bar examinees – 2007

There were quite a few examinees of the 2006 bar examination that have blogs. Some of them found their way here, together with other reviewees who shared their opinions, emotions, apprehensions and hopes. Many shared helpful information. Others expressed their appreciation, for which I’m thankful.

Webware Top 100 for 2007

When this blog started, we talked about the choices in blogging platforms. Our choice, Wordpress, got the most most number of votes in the Publishing category of the Webware 100 for 2007. In his analysis, Rafe Needleman said:
“Publishing had no mass consumer brands in the top 10, as most of the other categories did. WordPress [...]

Anatomy of an Internet Libel Case

The recent incoming link from Abe’s site alerted me to his post on surviving a libel suit. Considering that these cases had been resolved and there’s no appeal/reconsideration (at least none that I know of), let’s have a discussion for purely reportorial and academic reasons.
The brief introduction on this series is Part I.
There were actually [...]

The Philippine blogging scene: iBlog3 and 2007 Blog Awards

The flurry of events in the Philipine blogging scene could very well reflect the steady growth of blogging, not only in the local scene, but also worldwide.
There’s iBlog3, or the 3rd Philippine Blogging Summit, which is scheduled on April 13-14, 2007 at the U.P. College of Economics auditorium. There are various interesting topics, including humor, [...]