Category: Blogs & RSS

Public Radio Segment on Legal Blogs

Earlier this week, Minnesota Public Radio featured a segment on the extent to which legal blogs are making their way into judicial opinions. Source: Real Lawyers Have Blogs

When is Employee Blogging Protected?

There is an interesting article in the October issue of the Duke Law & Technology Review entitled, When is Employee Blogging Protected by Section 7 of the NLRA? (2006 DUKELTR 17) From the article: Blogs present courts with a new context in which to strike the balance between employee and employer rights. This iBrief focuses …

State of the Blogosphere, October 2006

Some data from the latest State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006 from Technorati. Technorati is now tracking more than 57 Million blogs. The blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days. About 100,000 new weblogs are created each day About 55% of all blogs are active, which means that they have been updated at …

Automated Web Surfing for Lawyers – Article on RSS

Tom Mighell and Dennis Kennedy have compiled a good list of RSS Resources You Can Use: Automated Web Surfing for Lawyers in November issue of Law Practice Today. The article begins with an introduction to RSS and how to monitor information via RSS feeds using a newsreader (a.k.a. feed reader or aggregator). For the more …

Article: State of the Legal Blawgosphere

This morning, Westclip picked up on Federal Lawyer article on The State of the Legal Blawgosphere. (Westlaw: 53-OCT FEDRLAW 14) According to estimates from Bob Ambrogi and Tom Mighell, there are at least 1000, but probably closer to 2000 legal blogs in existence. Also mentioned was the list of 100+ law library blogs which I …

Blogger Outages – Telling It Like It Is

Legal blogging expert, Kevin O’Keefe had this to say about the recent Blogger outages: I’d hate to be the law firm marketing professional telling the managing partner in a 500 lawyer firm with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues that ‘our 5 blog sites have been down for the day – but we got …

Podcast: This Week in Law

“Join Denise Howell and the TWiL panel, including Cathy Kirkman, Ernie Svenson, and John Palfrey as they discuss breaking issues in technology law including patents, copyrights, and more.” What’s TWiL? This Week in Law, a new legal issues podcast.

Two New Law Blogs

Two new blogs: LexLibris, University of Minnesota Law Library Blawg Law School Innovation, A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network

Screencast Tutorial on RSS for Legal Professionals

From Real Lawyers Have Blogs: Jason Eiseman, Computer Automation Librarian at Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, has produced an excellent 3 part screencast tutorial on RSS: 1. Introduction of RSS discusses importance of RSS and looks at an RSS feed. 2. How to set up an RSS aggregator and subscribe to RSS feeds. 3. Specific tools …

Lawsuits Against Bloggers

From BoleyBlogs: The Media Law Resource Center (MLRC) provides a unique list of lawsuits against bloggers. The list comes complete with annotations, links to decisions, case documents, related web sites and news stories. The range of cases is impressive, from Apple suing over trade secrets, to actresses protecting their reputations, to judges taking on local …