Ubiquity, thy name is blog

It seems that the power to blog is becoming ubiquitous these days. As I mentioned in my last blog, blogging is possible from third party applications as well as directly through the blog host’s site. In that case it was Writely, in this case I’ve discovered that it is also possible to blog directly from OneNote (2007 Beta 2), the note taking tool developed by Microsoft.

 

To demonstrate, this blog is written in my ‘1032 – Computer Applications to Law’ notebook in OneNote. As you can see from the screenshot below, I’ve created a notebook (on the left edge of the image) for each of my classes. Within each notebook I then create a series of sections (tabs running along the top of the image) for different aspects of the class – in this case I’ve got Class Notes, Research and Blogs. Within each section, I then can create a new page or add to existing notes as the circumstances dictate. In this case, I’ve got a different page for each of the Blogs I’ve created (although this is the first published through OneNote.)

 

 

 

 

While I use the program at university, this program strikes me as an excellent organisational tool for legal practice as well. Setting each file up as a notebook allows easy access to each client’s file, and by creating your default folder on a server, you can also collaborate on files from any workstation running OneNote.

 

An hour of wasted effort later…

 

AARRGH!!

Guess what? MS Office 2007 (I’m using Beta 2) doesn’t support WordPress blogs hosted by WordPress. (but does support WP blogs hosted on your own domain) I’ve posted this the usual way. If you want to know more about the workings of OneNote (though I’m pissed off at MS right now I still love OneNote) check out my wiki on it.

If a tree falls..

If a blogger posts a blog and no one comments/reads it, is it still a blog? Start commenting ya freaks!!

This post is a demonstration of Writely’s blog tool, created in Writely, published to my WordPress blog through the Writely interface, and used as part of my ongoing exploration of internet and computer tools that can be used for legal study and/or practice. Check out the wiki entry here.

Google better not pull an Anakin…

The Register has reported that Google is planning to record background noise using your computer’s microphone, match this noise (say from tv or radio) to the correct program, and then serve up targeted ads relevant to the program you’re watching or listening to. Is it just me or is this the civil liberties equivalent of Iran developing a nuclear energy program? (gee, worst case scenario, is there anything that could go wrong?) the Register article is here

Law blogs as legal resource?

According to Bonnie Shucha over at Wisblawg, LexisNexis is now indexing blog content as part of their information aggregation service. A few comments on her blog reflect the seeming absurdity of paying LexisNexis to access what is otherwise free content, but the consensus seems to be that a large subset of data available through LexisNexis or similar companies is freely available already and what you’re paying for is not so much access to data as access to readily available, nicely sorted, indexed, and searchable data. I’ve got to agree with the latter viewpoint on this one, although I’m not positive that blogs have a place in what is otherwise a fairly reliable source of legal information. (seems the equivalent of citing wikipedia in a research paper)