Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Steve Matthews of Vancouver Law Librarian Blog has an excellent list of the Top 10 Uses for RSS in Law Firms. There are some wonderful ideas here on how to leverage this technology for current awareness, marketing, image monitoring, communication and more. If you are new to RSS, see my article in the August Wisconsin …
A few weeks ago I was invited to participate in a survey on the diversity of niche bloggers. The results of the survey appear at Mapping the Diversity of the Blogosphere: A Bloggasm Case Study. Interesting stuff. Here’s a sampling of the results: The Blogosphere as a whole: (These are the results if you add …
EContent has an interesting article on the legality of harvesting content from RSS feeds for publication on your own site. The author explores both sides of the debate about whether it’s legal/ethical for “non-content creators reap some of the value of others’ content-creation labor.” Source: Real Lawyers Have Blogs
I received a postcard in the mail today for a free Webinar from Newsgator entitled, “RSS: The Future of Legal Information Delivery” It is scheduled for September 26th at 2:30 pm and September 27th at 12:30 pm. Topics: – Learn more about RSS – Discover how leading law firms and legal departments are using it …
Ross Kodner, legal tech guru and founder of Milwaukee-based MicroLaw, Inc., has a new blog called Ross Ipsa Loquitur. In the blog, Ross and colleagues Renee Kodner and Abraham Liebsch will blog about: law practice management and technology issues product reviews latest articles and CLE materials Renee’s Techno. Updates corporate legal department technology mobility lawyering …
At long last, my article on the Law Library Blogosphere has finally seen the light of day. A big thanks to Sabrina Pacifici for publishing it in LLRX. The article is based on a survey I did last fall of law library bloggers and those developing blogs. Abstract: Although the legal and library literature is …
Here’s a tip for Academic Librarians: Inspired by Rob Hudson’s article, Law Students Write About Law Libraries (or, What Students Really Think: A Survey of Student Blawgs)*, I thought that someone should be monitoring what our law students bloggers are saying about the law library. Since I don’t want to read every post (especially those …
The Seventh Circuit is now offering opinions and audio oral arguments via RSS feed. It is the first federal court of appeals to do so. The Seventh Circuit’s Web site makes a combination of feeds available: one RSS feed of text opinions and two podcast RSS feeds of oral arguments. One podcast feed is a …
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ve often heard me extol the virtues of RSS. But if you still aren’t sure what RSS is or how it can save you time and money, take a look at my article in the August Wisconsin Lawyer entitled, RSS: Making the Internet Subscribeable. In the …
According to Sifry’s Alerts’ August 2006 State of the Blogosphere, the blogosphere now measures over 50 million blogs (and counting!). Here are some other interesting findings: The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 1/2 months More than 2 blogs are created each second of each day There are about 18.6 blog posts per second.