Georgetown Law Library's Free and Low Cost Legal Research Guide is worth bookmarking. It provides an easy to use list of web-based sources that are free or low cost.

Of course you do. You're a law student! If you listened to the news commentators after President Obama's speech to Congress, you probably heard them talking about the number of Senators and Representatives Tweeting during his speech. Signing up for Twitter is free, and allows you to tell your followers important (or not) information about yourself. Many people use Twitter via text messaging on their phones as well as on their computers. The Twitter experience is described in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal titled "How to Twitter". Hamline Law School is on Twitter, too, so you can keep up to date with the latest events happening at the law school. Happy Tweeting!

Users of social networking sites may not realize that everything they post about themselves to those sites is available to be used for profiling purposes. Law enforcement may be counting on that fact. LLRX recently published an interesting article by Ken Strutin which discusses online social networking and its uses in the world of criminal justice. Read the article here.