Archive for February, 2005

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RSS for lawyers (and us)

Monday, February 7th, 2005

Feedmelegal is a blog all about RSS and blogging in the legal field. The author has a great list of links to tools for the growing world of RSS. Included are search feed creators, feed aggregators, feed creators for HTML sites, RSS to email tools, etc. All of this is meant to supplement his 16 [...]

Darn that dream

Saturday, February 5th, 2005

I’ve applied and interviewed for jobs that I have not gotten. I’ve gotten used to rejection letters and all that. Usually I don’t get my hopes up, so it’s not so bad when I don’t get it. But for the job I interviewed for in the Chicagoland area two weeks ago, I did get my [...]

The art of the interview

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

I’ve had many interviews, both in the social work and library fields. Some have gone great and some have been disasters. But the disasters haven’t always been mine. I’ve read plenty of books that talk about how to do well in an interview as an interviewee, but are there books for teaching people to be [...]

What a wonderful Wiki world

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

If 2004 was the year of the blog, I think 2005 will be the year of the Wiki. Wikis first came to my attention in 2003 in the form of the Wikipedia, which I thought was a fascinating and fabulous idea. What I didn’t know at the time was that Wikis have been around since [...]

The cool yellow pages

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

If you haven’t already, go check out A9.com, a yellow pages for the future. More a reference work than simply a “phone book”, A9 allows users to not only search the yellow pages but it lets you leave notes on the places they find, it shows you what else is in the neighborhood, and sometimes [...]

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