If you are a veteran lawyer blogger, your blog is already appearing near the top of search engines. For lawyers with new blogs, you should submit your blog to the search engines today. In theory, submission to the the major search engines may not be necessary as most all of them have spiders 'crawling' the… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: May 2004
Japan legal blogs to be big
After developing some of Japan's hottest Net ventures, Joichi Ito, a 37-year-old entrepreneur, has a new mission according an article in our Seattle Post Intelligencer: Making blogs, not just a thriving business but also a key element of everyday life in Japan. Ito argues blogs are far easier to set up than Web pages –… Continue Reading
How to buy or sell ads on lawyer blog
For the lawyer and law firm looking for a way to advertise their legal services on a blog or a way to sell advertising on their legal blog, here's three different ways you can do it. The info is courtesy of an article in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Ads on lawyer blog not worth it
I have been asked by lawyers again about allowing ads on their blog or planning for the inclusion of ads in the future. I still say no and the evidence backs me up. Note their could be an exception where a blogger happens to be a lawyer but is not using the blog to market… Continue Reading
Text of Bill Gate's Blog Speech
As you may know, Bill Gates spoke here in Seattle last week about why blogs were preferable to email and Web sites for businesses reaching prospective clients. This goes for lawyers too. Here's an excerpt about blogs from Bill's talk as well as the full transcript. I'm also including a link to his PowerPoint.
Update to list of blog search engines to register your blog
I've added some new blog search engines, or at least ones new to me, to my list of those search engines which retrieve search results from blogs only. Registering your blog is one way to increase your law blog site's ranking in search engine results. You'll get links to your site at the search engines…. Continue Reading
Search engine use survey : get on first page of results
If you expect people to find your firm when looking on search engines you better make sure you’re near the top of search results. If you are not showing up on the first page you are in trouble and if you aren't there by page two, forget it – no one one is looking. These… Continue Reading
Bill Gates shakes blogosphere and sends lawyers a message
As reported by Investor's Business Daily Bill Gates told Warren Buffett about blogging last Thursday. That was when Gates addressed the CEO's attending his summit and described blogs and RSS feeds as tools that “make it very easy to communicate” with customers, suppliers and employees. The result, according to New York public-relations executive Steve Rubel,… Continue Reading
Bill Gates backs blogs for businesses
Bill Gates told the world Thursday that Blogs are a big deal for businesses and that companies should start using blogs and RSS (Real Simple Syndication) for communicating with customers, staff and partners. Bill Gates topped it off by saying blogs have advantages over other, older ways of communicating such as email and Web sites…. Continue Reading
LegalMatch.com founder indicted on federal charges
The Associated Press reports Dmitri Shubov, the founder of an Internet-based service that matches lawyers with clients was indicted for allegedly hacking into the voicemail system of an Irvine competitor and deleting messages. Here’s a summary of the report: Dmitri Shubov, 31, of San Francisco was charged with three counts of unlawful access to store… Continue Reading
Dogpile.com releases RSS-enabled toolbar
The Search Engine News Journal reports search engine Dogpile.com today released an updated version of its RSS-enabled toolbar. The upgraded toolbar includes new functionality that provides even more timely and convenient access to users’ personalized lists of RSS and Atom feeds.
Google launches its own official Google Blog
Google launched its own Google Blog last week. It ain't much. Frankly, if Google does not do more with it, they ought to take it down. I know it can be a headache, but if a company is going to have a blog, they ought to at least turn on the comments feature allowing readers… Continue Reading
Westlaw brings RSS to lawyers' attention in big way
Westlaw is offering news and law feeds via RSS. They call it IntraClips. This is pretty cool. Now someone can subscribe to receive law by area of practice and jurisdiction and receive the feeds on their desktop news aggregators or another Internet device. I always wondered why LexisNexis or West did not offer an email… Continue Reading
Google launches Blogger overhaul
In an attempt to attract more blog publishers Google has launched a Blogger overhaul. For those not following the blogging world, Google bought Blogger a ways back with the view being people would use an Internet publishing tool that could display Google advertising. Besides a new look, Blogger has added different user options in hope… Continue Reading
Six Apart launches Moveable Type Version 3.0
It's been a long time in the coming but Moveable Type version 3.0 is now available. As a developer of blogs I've been waiting for MT 3.0 since March when we were told it would be out. Waiting not so much for the features but for clarity as to the licensing of MT. Till know the commercial license was about as vague as anything you would want to read and when asking for clarity they said just wait till 3.0 coming in March.