University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Blogs & RSS

What Happens When You Stop Blogging

Unshelved – Friday, March 10, 2006

WisPolitics/WisOpinion Blog Summit Next Weekend

Update 3/13/06: Mike Schramm from WisPolitics.com informs me that the agenda has changed a bit from the original posted below. An addition: Panelists Owen Robinson of Boots & Sabers and Jay Bullock of folkbum’s rambles and rants, joined by other citizen bloggers, will discuss “Why blog? Defining the phenomenon from a citizen bloggers’ perspective” See …

Legal Aspects of Blogging

UW Law Alum, Jennifer Peterson has written a great article about the legal aspects of blogging in this month’s Wisconsin Lawyer. The article is entitled, The Shifting Legal Landscape of Blogging. Abstract: The use of blogs as a forum for online communication is gaining popularity and their content is gaining influence. Yet the structure and …

Most Major Newspapers Also Publish Blogs

In an interesting survey, BluePlateSpecial.net found that all but fourteen of America’s 100 largest newspapers also published one or more blogs. Most blogs are devoted to a specific topic, such as politics, law, sports, lifestyle, etc. Locally, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel blogs (#41) made the list. The Wisconsin State Journal also has a blog. Source: …

Paralegal Blawg – The Estrin Report

There’s a new blawg in town – The Estrin Report, “created for professional paralegals — not of a certain level, specialty or firm — but of a particular attitude.” The author is Chere Estrin, CEO of the Los Angeles-based continuing legal education organization, Estrin LegalEd. Source: The Vancouver Law Librarian Link Blog

I Heart Tech Offers Tech Tips for Lawyers

In honor of Valentines Day, I recommend a great blog I recently discovered called I Heart Tech. The blog from Law Tech Partners has lots of good “Technology Tips and Advice for a Lawyer’s Life and Business.” (See postcard auction)

Madison City Council – Does Blogging Violate Open Meeting Law?

Friday’s Capital Times has a thought-provoking article on whether the proliferation of Madison City Council member blogs could violate Wisconsin’s open meeting law. So far, four of the 20 council members are blogging.

State of the Blogosphere

Technorati’s latest quarterly State of the Blogosphere is out and findings show that the blogosphere is continuing to expand at an amazing rate. Some of the more interesting stats: The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day 9% of …