The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
U.S. Federal Courts Map
“The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has released a new, improved and surprisingly useful interactive map of the 12 regional judicial circuits and 94 judicial districts.“
The map provides an iterface for finding links to the various district and appeals courts for a given jurisdiction.
Track Search Engine Spiders – Free Web Analytics Software for Apache Web Server
“Use trackSpiders.cgi to track spiders from major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN). This free web analytics software will examine an Apache web server log and will display visits from Googlebot, Yahoo Slurp, and MSNBot. It takes an optional query string in the format s=ygm where each letter corresponds to the search engine spider for the major search engines. For example, specifying s=g will only display pages crawled by Googlebot.”
Google Launches “My Google” Style Feature
“Google is unveiling today a new My Google-style service allowing people to consolidate various Google features they use, ranging from web search to email, in one place.“
Hmm, trying to be Yahoo? I though Yahoo wanted to be Google. What does Bill think?
Member blogs are live
“If you have an existing blog, you can import it into your TechRepublic blog using your external blog’s RSS feed. This eliminates the need to post things twice. “
Well, this sounded interesting, so I gave it a shot. Nothing real fancy, but it does have the neat feature of importing the feed from <CONTENT /> as a way to populate the blog. The feeds are updated wevery 4 hours, so the mirror isn’t in real time, but I don’t mind. It also gives me access to all of the tagging going on on the TR member site as well as. Who knows, it may even drive more traffic.
BetaNews | Netscape 8.0 Final Released
“The revived browser is based upon FireFox 1.0.3, bundling FireFox’s advanced features with a Netscape interface and many other custom enhancements such as integrated RSS feeds and Netscape portal content, as well as enhanced privacy features and a selection of optional toolbars to install.Microsoft’s Internet Explorer engine is included under the hood to provide better compatibility with Web sites that conform to IE.“
The ability to toggle between Firefox and IE is pretty cool.
Google releases enterprise desktop search tool | InfoWorld | News | 2005-05-18 | By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service
“The workplace tool, called Google Desktop Search for the Enterprise, is expected to be available for free download on Wednesday at http://desktop.google.com/enterprise.Google decided to develop the product because it received many requests for a workplace version of the consumer desktop search tool, said Matthew Glotzbach, product manager for the Google Enterprise group.“
With Google Desktop Search Enterprise an admin can configure and deploy GDS across the enterprise and includes enhanced features like encryption of index files. You can find the admin guide here.
Question: Will any teknoids deploy across their law school? I think this would be a great tool for helping faculty and staff manage their information. Of course there is always Copernic.
freshmeat.net: Project details for SupportDesk
“SupportDesk is an Internet text chat system designed for Web sites that wish to provide their users with online support. A Java applet client allows users to log in to the chat system anonymously from a Web site and request help from the Web site operators.“
Scripting News: 5/17/2005
PublicRadioFeeds.com is “the most comprehensive list of public radio podcasts on the Internet.”
Quite the list. I’m really starting to like the podcast thing.
freshmeat.net: Project details for MinGW Developer Studio
“Changes:
A way to configure the GNU toolchain was added. The editor may be customized by the user. Programmers may develop Win32 applications using the MinGW C/C Cross compiler and execute Win32 applications using Wine.“
Mash up Google maps and Chicago police stats and this is what you get. There is a lot of very cool stuff developing around the Google Maps API. It’s easy to imagine hotels and the tourist industry using this info to differntiate themnselves.