Blogs & RSS

Last week, the popular blogging software, Movable Type announced that they are now open source. This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you choose. Read more at the …

A South Carolina District Court judge has ruled that bloggers may have the same rights as journalists, depending on the content of the blog. The complete case, BidZirk LLC v Phillip J Smith, is available …

Real Lawyers Have Blogs has some good advice on converting a law firm newsletter into a blog.

There is a new e-book available called Law of The Blog, which according to author Nicholas Carroll, is “about bloggers’ legal rights and risks in the U.S.A.” The table of contents is available on the …

The Wisconsin State Law Library routinely offers a great slate of workshops. Looks like there is a new one coming up in November called, “Using Blogs to Promote Your Law Practice.” Here’s the description: Blogs …

NewsGator, a company specializing in information delivery via RSS, is offering a free Webinar titled “Enterprise RSS for the Legal Profession” on August 21st, 2:00 ET. I expect they will be demoing NewsGator Enterprise Server …

Over the last few years, I’ve featured a number of online collections produced by the UW Digital Collections Center, such as Wisconsin Blue Books, the State of Wisconsin Collection and the University of Wisconsin Collection. …

This Monday marked the release of BlawgWorld 2007, an eBook featuring the best posts from “77 of the most influential blawgs.” I’m very honored that WisBlawg was selected for inclusion again this year. I have …

Do you or your organization offer any RSS feeds? If so, take a look at 5 Tips to Increase RSS Subscribers which I learned about today over at LibrarianInBlack. The tips include: 1) Make it …

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