Or Lexis Rewards. I wish I had the patience to keep up with the daily offers and research points, but I just don’t have the discipline. If you do, there are some tremendous prizes waiting at the end of the rainbow. You can also help yourself become more familiar with using these two legal search engines more efficiently. This is certainly a valuable trait should you need to research caselaw at your job. It also helps to know the system when you’re writing any article or paper. On that note, both are very amenable to providing live help with your paper. In fact, I believe Westlaw support is available 247.
Archive for January, 2009
There are Two Types of Geniuses
January 14th, 2009 by Kris
One takes complex things and makes them simple and one takes simple things and makes them complex. I don’t know if this was my professor’s (Professor Liu) own, but it definitely sounded good. He was talking about Posner when he mentioned this. Posner would be someone who makes things more complex. I’m always amazed by those that make things simple. Its no coincidence that all of my favorite professors have this trait. I much prefer straight forward, blunt truths or opinions than cleverly worded wizardry.
Cornell Using Google Adsense
January 13th, 2009 by Kris
This is very surprising. Yesterday I was searching for FRE 401 and came up with the Cornell Law web page on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Apparently Cornell now uses Google Adsense to offset the costs of their website. I’m not knocking it. It’s always good to make money when you can, but this is very surprising for an institution of Cornell’s stature to use pay per click ads.
The implementation of the single banner ad does raise questions though. Although not technically against the Google adsense policy of encouraging clicks, they certainly do create the suggestion you click on them. Right above the ads, the pages read “Donations cover only 20% of our costs.” Wow. Definitely pushing the limits here.