Ernest Svenson a/k/a Ernie the Attorney has provided outstanding coverage of Katrina's impact on New Orleans from the man on street's perspective. I was wondering how he'd cover Mardi Gras – man on the street perspective as well. Dateline – 7 am [today] – Uptown New Orleans. I go outside to get the paper and… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Blawg Review law blog directory
As Denise Howell says, it's a heck of a start – Blawg Review's Law Blog Directory. Comes in the form of a blogroll. And in the guessing as to who owns blog review and what they'll be doing with it, sure looks heavy towards the American Lawyer Media, Schaeffer, & Heller trifecta (carrying 2/3 of… Continue Reading
Law professor blogs : 182 and growing, up 40% in 5 months
Law professor blogs are growing at a fast clip per an article today in the National Law Journal. An increasing number of law professors are using blogs-online journals or newsletters-to break free from traditional modes of legal scholarship. With an immediacy and ability to reach millions of readers, blogs are proving an attractive vehicle among… Continue Reading
Tag tutorial : How to integrate tags into your blog
Aaron Brazell, publisher of Emerging Earth and Technosailor.com, has published at ProBlogger an outstanding tutorial on how to integrate tags into your blog and why it's important. Many bloggers are tagging each of their posts. It's done for at least two reasons. One, for internal blog purposes. This way a blogger can keep track of… Continue Reading
Law school blogs : Weekly Law School Roundup
Highlights from law school blogs are coming to you right from here in the Northwest via the revived Weekly Law School Roundup. Best I can tell Evan Schaeffer at his Legal Underground blog published this weekly highlight on law school blogs from February, 2004 through May, 2005. A third year law student at a 'Northwest… Continue Reading
Asia blawgs – law blogs?
California lawyer Dan Hull is looking for Asia blawgs – law blogs – to add to his international law blogs list. Drop him an email or post a comment. Seattle lawyer, Dan Harris, already posted a long comment regarding his firm's China Law Blog.
Blawg Review : Bob Coffield style
Blawg 'law blog' Review #44 comes from Charleston, West Virginia healthcare lawyer Bob Coffield. I may not like the term blawg, but the lawyers who take on the job of doing these weekly summaries on the best of the week from the world of lawyer blogs do wonderful job. One is more creative than the… Continue Reading
Comment disclaimers on blogs? More legalese needed?
Comment disclaimers on blogs, though not necessary, may be a good idea in some cases posts Jerry Lawson at Netlawblog. The United States Code (47 USC 230) gives bloggers some protection against libel suits based on the theory the blogger is the publisher of the comments. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a good related FAQ…. Continue Reading
Law blogs impacting law reviews : Wall Street Journal
Law blogs are impacting traditional law reviews per an article in the Wall Street Journal (sub. req'ed) For years, publishing in journals has been a prerequisite to getting tenure or to moving to a more prestigious institution. And for just as long, scholars and laypeople have criticized the stultifying style of legal academic articles, which… Continue Reading
Edelman buys 243 copies of Naked Conversations
Dick Edelman, head of Edelman PR, picked up 243 copies of Robert Scoble's and Shel Israel's book, Naked Conversations. Dick is handing this book on 'How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers' out to each of his senior managers. I'm through the first couple chapters. The book's a must have for any… Continue Reading
New York Times podcasts : 18 strong and growing
If you haven't noticed, the New York Times has 18 podcasts ranging from the Front Page, Theater Update, Sports Update to the Book Review. The blending of media, whether it be print and audio or mainstream media and citizen journalism, is on. For law firms and professional services firms the barriers to entry into this… Continue Reading
Four P's of Blog Marketing
Playing on the Four P's of the marketing profession – product, price, place and promotion, Steve Rubel serves up the Four P's of Blog Marketing. Passionate – Write about issues that are near and dear to your heart Purposeful – Make sure you keep the end in mind; why are you blogging? Present – Keep… Continue Reading
Washington Post adds del.icio.us tagging : Rubel sees tagging for all PR
Steve Rubel points out that the Washington Post has added bookmark with del.icio.us buttons to their article templates. Steve does not see social bookmarking such as del.icio.us stopping with newspapers PR types and marketers should take note of this too. Ads, press releases, online marketing collateral, word of mouth and viral campaigns, you name it… Continue Reading
Bloglines having problems again
Darren Rowse wonders whether Blogines is having problems again. He's finding an error on almost 1 in 10 feeds he's following. LexBlog has hundreds of lawyers and professional services business clients which it empowers to be effective bloggers via RSS. The problem is that most firms are not going allow a downloaded application such as… Continue Reading
Viral marketing via blogs
Following my last post that blog readers are the influencers of your target audience I ran across this viral marketing post from Seth Godin. Seth recently had conversations with three companies who achieved viral marketing success. …All three have lots of success and credibility and leverage in marketing themselves person to person. and all three… Continue Reading