Weekend update: More research links from the week, law sites and a Florida housing report

The Florida Housing Boom, analysis by UF's Bureau of Economic and Business Research. Interesting stuff, like this, from the press release: ...rising house prices in Florida were partly a delayed response to the boom in the high-productivity technology sector in other states in the late 1990’s as retiring baby boomers up north used capital gains on their houses to fund moving to the Florida sunshine..

Justia v Findlaw Legaline.com's Robert Ambrosi posts about why Findlaw's once wonderful legal directory has gone downhill: the founder left after Thompson bought the site and now has stared Justia, which offers free searches of Federal court dockets. Justia now has a great law directory available. (Now if there were just some direct links to searchable case databases in state and local courts.....)

The other links:

Reference:

Geonames,a new geographic name search.

Baghdad: mapping the violence from the BBC, uses casualty data to show progression of violence from 2003 til now.

Hawai'i Tourism Authority Stylebook (PDF): get the spellings and usage right. Includes info on the Hawai'ian language and a dictionary link.

"The Second Wave" and Beyond; primary sources of the women's movement, 1960-present.

LitiLaw, published articles for litigators. Search a "free collection of hundreds of recently published articles of interest to litigators and related legal professionals. All articles are full-text, written by lawyers and have been published as part of continuing legal education (CLE) seminars, in legal journals, or are of similar quality."

Real estate glossary from RealtyTrac.

Links for 'March Madness' resources, from Resourceshelf.

Family Guide for Fruits and Seeds, detailed database by family groups from USDA's Agricultural Research Service.

Journalism:

First Draft, Tim Porter's blog on journalism, is active again, now that Porter's finished his book, News, Improved.


News:

Chronicling America: Historical American Newspapers from the Library of Congress, searchable archives of public domain newspapers from several states, covering 1900-1910.