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Okay, where have I been? A friend just turned me on to myspace.com. MySpace is online social networking to the nth degree. It includes a profile page, email, instant messaging, calendar, blogging, and file sharing technology. The only problem is, if Business Week is to be trusted, I don’t quite fit the demographics of the MySpace Generation. It is worth looking at though just to get an idea of what younger students and patrons are getting hooked on in terms of functionality and interaction.

The Boston Globe had pointers to two podcast search engines yesterday. Blinkx, which searched 45,000 podcasts and 1 million hours of news video and university lectures, and Podzinger, which searches 18,000 podcasts.

Source: The Boston Globe

LLNE member Terri Gallego O’Rouke of the Pappas Law Library at Boston University School of Law was recently featured in the Law Librarian Blog’s Spotlight on Law Librarians.

Michelle Pearse
LLNE President

The “Coats for Kids” Coat Drive benefits the children at The Home for Little Wanderers, “one of the oldest welfare agencies in the nation and the largest in New England.” The goal of this volunteer effort, organized by Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Cares, a 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization operated by Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, is to collect 750 new coats for the children of The Home. Additional sponsors of the drive include Blanchard Press, Inc., Road Warrior Moving and Storage, and Rugged Bear.

LLNE members are invited to participate in this event, either individually or as a group. Volunteers may personally drop off their new coat donations at one of the participating Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage or Rugged Bear store locations on or before December 15, 2005. Tax-deductible donations, made payable by check to Coldwell Banker Cares, can be mailed directly to Coldwell Banker Residential Mortgage, Attn: Coats for Kids Drive, 277 Dartmouth Street, Boston, MA 02116. Please download and print a “Coats for Kids” Coat Drive brochure to send along with your payment by December 15th. Alternatively, you may also contact Jennifer Kessler, Andrea Rasmussen, Suzanne Hoey or Michelle Pearse, LLNE Service Committee members who have volunteered to answer questions and host collection sites for LLNE donations.

The Boston Globe today had a pointer to blogger Miranda rights at EFF.org. This page has information about how to get involved to support blogger rights and a great legal guide for bloggers.

PubSub has a new feature – community lists. Community Lists are “miniature roadmaps to influential sites. ” They have created one on the law that tracks popular legal blogs. This could be a handy site to find legal blogs of interest and influence.

Source: Inter Alia

For all those who think they can do a better job than our elected officials at balancing the Massachusetts budget, here is your shot. The General Court has created MassBalance, “… a budget simulation game designed to let a player make budgeting choices similar to the choices legislators are making. In the game, as in the state legislature, some programs cannot be cut, others may be cut but the consequences are potentially severe and the importance of some programs only becomes clear once you have learned a little about them. “

SNELLA (Southern New England Law Librarians Association) is having its Fall Meeting on Friday, November 18, 2005. The topic is insurance Law, Complex Litigation and E-Filing. The registration deadline is November 11, 2005.

Starting Wednesday (10/19), the New Hampshire Supreme Court will start broadcasting live over the Internet. Read its announcement. Audio recordings of oral arguments have been available since June 2004.

source: Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites

The Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries has a blog.