+ A Search Box to Find All Documents or Docket Files
Note: When searching for a docket a results page only brings back the Case Number. You'll need to click again to access name and other info.
+ Recent Decisions Listed and Linked in the Right Rail (PDF Files)
+ Middle Column, A Court Calendar That Uses Color To Help Identify Days (Argument Days, Non-argument Days, Conference Days, etc.)
+ Middle Column, Images from Inside and Outside the Courthouse
+ Left Column, Organized into Two Sections (Supreme Court Documents and Supreme Court Information)
+ Documents Include (Dockets, Oral Arguments (Including Audio), Merit Briefs (Including Link to Online Merit Briefs (via ABA), Court Rules, Case Handling Guides, Opinions, Orders of the Court, etc. g
+ USSC Info (History, Bios, Guides, etc. Visiting the Court, Public Information, Jobs, Links)
The Web address for the site will change from www.supremecourtus.gov to www.supremecourt.gov, but either address will provide access through July l ,2010.
The blog of Legal Times finds key elements of the site's content pleasingly easier to get to now.
Several important pieces of information about the Court that used to take several clicks to get to are now brought forward, for easier access.
And Daniel Schuman of the Sunlight Foundation, which notably did a volunteer mock redesign of the Supreme Court site, notes several improvements, along with several areas where things could still be better.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).