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<title>Docstoc for law school (a.k.a. today's young whippersnappers don't know how good they have it!)</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howell/?p=213</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:38:51 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Denise Howell</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[My goodness.  Check out the impressive array of law school outlines and other law school and bar exam resources being amassed at Docstoc.  Aside from being incredibly useful, my favorite thing about this service is its built in Creative Commons licensing.  A perfect place to share form legal (and other) documents &mdash; as Marc Canter discussed wishing to do on a recent episode of The Gang.   Bonus link:  Are Cease-and-Desist Letters Subject to Copyright? P.S.  You know you're becoming an elder-blogger when: you're just as apt to think MSM refers to methylsulfonylmethane as mainstream media, and you're just as apt to think Idoru is one of your dozens of daily nutritional supplements as a William Gibson novel. P.P.S. ... ]]>
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<title>InSTEDD applies Web 2.0 to help save lives</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7626</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:20:00 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan Farber</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disaster (InSTEDD) project launches this week with a goal of using Internet-based technologies to identify and warn people of disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina, and epidemics like Avian flu. "Our ultimate goal is a better global immune system. We know we alone can't truly stop diseases, war, poverty, or climate change, but we think we can help humanity to learn about threats faster, and so respond quicker, and so soften the impact," the Web site states.  Google.org funded the non-profit with $5 ... ]]>
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<title>Court tosses suit against Avvo, concluding algorithmic ratings are protected speech</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howell/?p=204</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:06:15 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Denise Howell</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Lawyer rating start-up and nascent online community Avvo scored a big win yesterday when it convinced a Washington district court to dismiss a putative class action lawsuit filed last June.  Avvo aggregates available attorney information, assigns subjective (and undisclosed) value to various factors, and comes up with a 1-10 rating.  (Initially, Avvo rated every lawyer in its database.  Shortly after its launch, and after the lawsuit was filed, Avvo responded to concerns about this practice and altered its approach.)  Avvo's ratings are thus generally analogous to Google's PageRank:  factors are weighted and a score is assigned.  The lawyer-plaintiffs in the suit challenged the accuracy and validity of Avvo's ratings and argued consumers would be ... ]]>
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