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January 19, 2008
My little town: OpenCongress
When I worked and/or lived on Capitol Hill (15 years all told), new "local" newspapers and weekly magazines about Congress and our national yet surprisingly insular little town and community within The District would come and go. Only a few of them survived and prospered. But here's a new and interesting one, at least to me, via Ed. at Blawg Review and the Susan Crawford Blog: OpenCongress. It's an on-line magazine apparently mixing the traditions of The Hill and the Library of Congress' Thomas with the added trumpeted goal of reporting the "real story behind the story". We'll assume that means facts and not gossip.
Posted by JD Hull at 09:48 PM | Comments (0)
Fancy Brit lawyer Ruthie loses passport in back of Scottish cab.
We know from her on-line confession that this happened to the famous English lawyer-writer-biker Ruthie in Aberdeen, Scotland around New Year's, culminated in a run-in with the feared and notoriously unrelenting Grampian Police, and therefore almost certainly involved booze, men and/or worse. See "Do Not Lose your Passport" at Ruthie's Law. We Yanks expected much better. Arched eyebrows.
Posted by JD Hull at 08:20 PM | Comments (3)
Sicily's governor sentenced to prison.
ROME (AP, Jan. 18) - A court in Palermo convicted Sicily's governor Friday of helping a Mafia boss and sentenced him to five years in prison.
Gov. Salvatore Cuffaro said he would appeal and continue serving as governor of the island while the case was in progress. [more]
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 02:23 AM | Comments (0)
Law firm logos are still goofy, useless, and a waste of time and money.
It lacked subtlety--but we got our point across, and lots of people clicked on it two years ago. Our post, from January 2006, is here. It was inspired by a series of Tom Kane posts on whether firm logos help or hurt. Conclusion: (a) you already have one in your own trade dress, (b) so don't change it, and (c) don't go any further and embarrass yourself.
Posted by JD Hull at 01:00 AM | Comments (0)