Archive for August, 2010
What’s the Difference? Attorney or Lawyer?
When you go around searching for legal assistance do your search for ‘lawyer’ or ‘attorney’? I tested this to see if there was a preference. I would think that people would search ‘lawyer’ more often than attorney. I don’t know why I would assume that, seems to be easier to say, we see it more in the media, and so on….. I checked it out in a quick test on Google Trends and found that, simply in terms of trending words, ‘attorney’ is searched far more than ‘lawyer’. Read the rest of this entry »
Why Just About Mary J?
When I’m browsing through the blog land, or some Q&A forums online, why are 50% of the questions about legalizing marijuana? First off, how can a stoner coherently figure out how to post on an online forum? Secondly, what’s with the volume? Have I missed the marijuana boat? And since when has this become one of the top legal issues to trend on the web?
I looked a bit closer into the phenomenon and noted some trends, take what you wish from the data. Read the rest of this entry »