Category: Blogs & RSS

Kevin O’Keefe, Wisconsin native and president of LexBlog, has written an excellent article on blogging in this month’s Wisconsin Lawyer. He discusses the benefits of blogging, offers advice for how to get started and what to write about, tips on designing a blog, and more. Definitely worth a read if you’ve been thinking about starting …

SnackUpon creates a customized RSS feed that delivers content you might like based on your Delicious bookmarks. Read more at Lifehacker. I was curious about this so I created and subscribed to a feed based on my Delicious account. I was surprised by the volume and variety of the sites that it suggested. Nothing particularly …

Tracking what people say on blogs can be important to legal professionals for a number of reasons: Image Monitoring – What are people saying about you, your firm, your clients? Competitive Intelligence – What are people saying about the competition? Personnel – What is being said by and about potential employees? Litigation – What is …

Last week I had the honor of presenting at the State Bar of Wisconsin Annual Convention here in Madison. I spoke at a Litigation Section program entitled “This Blog’s for You” along with Mark Herrmann of Drug & Device Law and Anne Reed of Deliberations. In my part of the presentation, I discussed blogs generally …

Court Documents CCAP – Notification of new WI Circuit Court, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court cases by party name and/or all filings for an individual case Wisconsin Courts – All new Court of Appeals and Supreme Court opinions, oral arguments, certifications, etc. Justia – Receive new full-text U.S. District Circuit Court opinions and filings …

Last week I gave a presentation to the UW Law School faculty and staff on the legal applications of RSS. I’ve posted my slides and handouts on Scribd and thought I’d share them here. Read this doc on Scribd: RSS for Law School Faculty & Staff Related handouts: Law-Related RSS Feeds RSS Readers: Thunderbird RSS …

RSS aficionados will appreciate 14 “Other” Ways to Use RSS Feeds from makeuseof.com. With these tools, you can do all sorts of interesting things with RSS feeds, such as: filter feeds by keyword send feed content to email, cell phone, chat, etc combine multiple feeds into one format feed content for print display feed content …

The Law Library of Congress is now offering a handful of RSS feeds. News & Events Research Reports Webcasts Global Legal Monitor Source: AbsTracked

Last week I announced that MadCat, the UW Madison Library catalog, had added RSS feeds for new items from various campus libraries and subjects, including law. I also noted that the Law Library is continuing to produce our Selected Recent Acquisitions list which is much more detailed. Customized email delivery is available and I’m pleased …

Bev Butula, law librarian colleague and blogger over at the Wisconsin Law Journal, shared with me a fun story she created to illustrate how useful blogs can be to legal professionals. The story is entitled Bella is Bewildered About Blogs. Think Wolf v. Pig, but about blogs. All silliness aside, this story is a great …