Overlawyered.com employs a weblog format:
new commentary appears at the top of the page and then scrolls down, being
stored after a week in the archives. Be warned that many news links
on the Web break within a few days, so that the archives contain many news
links that no longer work. We occasionally correct or otherwise change
archived items, especially for purposes of updates (adding in what happened
on appeal in a court case, for example).
Since June 2003 Overlawyered.com has run
on the Movable Type weblog publishing system, but before that date it operated
in a homemade format. As a result the site has two sets of archives,
one beginning with our launch in July
1999 and extending through mid-June 2003, and the other consisting
of more recent entries. Recent archive pages can be reached from
the front page; to reach the first four years' archives, start with this
overview page. Unfortunately, a complete search of the site requires
two searches, this
one for newer entries and this
one for entries from 1999 to mid-2003.
Movable Type creates automated topical pages on
various frequently recurring subjects such as law
and medicine, firearms
lawsuits, class
actions and so forth. Before our format switch, these were on homemade
pages (examples: personal responsibility,
schools, aviation).
The older version of topical pages also included a variety of outside links
and other resources not always carried forward in the new. To reach
one of the "old" topical pages, try scrolling down to the bottom of the
equivalent "new" topical page where a pointer will usually appear directing
you to the old page.
If you become a regular visitor, you'll probably
want to sign up for our mailing list which
has been sending a short piece of email every week or two describing what's
new on the site.
To find a permanent link for any newer post, click on the time-of-day
stamp that concludes the post ("Posted by Walter Olson at 10:05
a.m.")
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Archived commentaries before July 2003 sometimes include a "DURABLE
LINK" target button. Others can be linked to or cited with precision
once you find the right archive page because each such item is assigned
a "target", which is what they call the little bit of text after "#" that
sends you partway down a page to a specified passage. For example,
the first item that ran on January 11, 2001 is found in the 2001 series
of archives, second January page, at the URL:
http://overlawyered.com/archives/01/jan2.html#0111a
where "0111a" refers to January (01) 11, "a" normally referring
to the top item that day. Archived items from before 2001 follow
a slightly different pattern, with the target formula YY/MM/DD (with an
"a", "b", etc. when there were multiple items on a day). Thus July
6, 1999 is:
http://overlawyered.com/archives/99july1.html#990706
To be sure of the target before linking, view the relevant
archives page with "View/Page Source" (Netscape) or "View/Source" (Internet
Explorer).
To obtain an Overlawyered.com logo to create a graphic link on
your site, just use your right mouse button to click on and capture the
image below. Pick "Save Image As..." from the menu and save to your
system. The usual growlings apply about how you mustn't link to the
stored image on our servers, whose URL is apt to change without notice
anyway (webmasters know what this means, and no one else need care).
Sorry, no transparent version, alternative dimensions, etc. -- graphics-savvy
volunteers are welcome to lend us a hand.
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