Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Thanks to Blawg for the link to the Practical RSS video clip, An Introduction To RSS… In just seven minutes, the video does an excellent job of explaining what RSS is and how to use it. Well worth a few minutes of your time if you’ve been wanting to learn more about RSS. And after …
The ABA Web Store is now offering a RSS feed with information about new books available from the ABA. News Feed will include new titles and other Web Store information.
The Second Line Blog is the official blog for the American Association of Law Libraries’ (AALL) 2007 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. It features current announcements, news, photos, informal reports from conference goers, and all sorts of important items of interest. Both a RSS feed and email subscription are available. If you wish to contribute …
I’m please to report that my article, Too Much Information: Filtering RSS Feeds, appears in the Winter 2006 issue of Connecting…, the newsletter of the AALL Computing Services Special Interest Section. In the article, I offer instructions for: Filtering blog content using Google Blog Search and Feedster Filtering other RSS feeds with Feed Rinse Combining …
Tis the time of year for blog awards. Here are two which honor legal blogs: Dennis Kennedy’s 2006 Blawggies Blawg Review’s Awards 2006
I’m very honored to learn that WisBlawg has recently been named as a Top 100 Education Blog by the OEDb: Online Education Database. Not bad considering there are over 30,000 education blogs. The list is not ranked but rather is ordered alphabetically within each topic. WisBlawg is one of four specialty blogs.
Looks like the Library of Congress is offering a handful of RSS feeds. There are general feeds about library news and events, as well as feeds from the U.S. Copyright Office. The latter features feeds for current legislation, federal register notices and more. Source: Library Stuff
If you’ve visited Blawg lately, you’ve probably noticed a few changes. The directory of legal blogs has updated it’s look and added some useful upgrades. The first change is the url – the central domain is moving from .org to .com. Blawg.com has long redirected to Blawg.org, and now the relationship will simply be reversed. …
Justia.com has recently launched a legal-blog–only search engine. Blawg Search offers both a search engine for blawg posts, as well as a directory of legal blogs. Very nice. Source: Robert Ambrogi’s Law Sites
I’m a big RSS fan. It’s a wonderful technology for current awareness, networking, benchmarking, and image monitoring. But, unfortunately, not every Web page that I want to monitor offer a RSS feed. That’s where “html scraping” services like FeedYes & Ponyfish come in. They allow you to create your own RSS feeds from almost any …