Tom Mighell and Dennis Kennedy have a new podcast, The Kennedy-Mighell Report. It's on legal technology, with an Internet focus. Their second episode, Podcasting for Lawyers, is a live recording of their joint presentation at the 2006 ABA TECHSHOW. Dennis and Tom are not only top notch guys but among the thought leaders when it… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Yahoo's new homepage excludes directory listings
Search Engine Journal reports Yahoo's new homepage excludes directory listings. Yahoo was started as a directory. But the reality is that few, if any one, uses the directory now. People do a search. It will be interesting to see if those seeking search engine optimization via a strong link from Yahoo's directory will continue to… Continue Reading
Blogs and IP : Denise Howell paper
Denise Howell, an appellate and intellectual property lawyer with Reed Smith and publisher of Bag and Baggage, has written a paper in connection with a talk on blogs and IP protection she's giving later this week as part of a digital copyright panel. It's called 'More War.' I have a hard enough time keeping up… Continue Reading
Blogs and legal scholarship: Free recap from Harvard
Harvard Law School hosted an excellent blog conference entitled 'Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship' on Friday. Daniel Solove, an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and publisher of Concurring Opinions, has a concise speaker-by-speaker recap of the event. Per Professor Solove: You can get everything you need to… Continue Reading
Ernie Svenson : Alive and well in New Orleans
Reading Ernie's post on Jazzfest on 2006 reminded me to post about his leaving a larger law firm and opening his own law firm. In the spirit of New Orleans, Ernie opened his new firm the day after Mardi Gras. Ernie handles business disputes in both federal and state court with the focus on copyright,… Continue Reading
Law school blogs : Weekly roundup
Evan Schaeffer and his anonymous law student sidekick(s) keep kicking out law school blogs weekly roundups. Check out the latest law professor and law student offerings. The roundup is a nice addition to the growing body of legal knowledge being accumulated via blogs. I am not sure but the only way you may be able… Continue Reading
Yahoo local search improvements : Opportunity for lawyers and professional service firms
John Battele, a real leader on search, technology and the media, reports on improvements inYahoo local search. …Yahoo has built in the ability for local merchants to interact directly with the listings, to create content for their businesses, and to buy premium listings. Today Yahoo has moved the needle again, adding Local Featured Listings, a… Continue Reading
Keywords in url's mean little for search engine rankings
Jill Whalen, head of High Rankings and as good as they come on SEO, responds that changing URL's to have keywords in url's is of little value in search engine rankings. …I definitely wouldn't change any existing URLs if I were you. There's really no benefit to having keywords in them, and there are lots… Continue Reading
Meetup in New York City this week?
Want to get together in New York this week? I'll be in town all day Wednesday, beginning with a breakfast program I am a panelist at. Stop by the program, Blogging for Clients: How It Works and Why You Should Care, from 8 to 10, at the Seminar Complex Center, 3 Park Avenue (corner of… Continue Reading
Blogs provide big time networking opportunities
Wayne Hurlbert, an Internet marketing authority, posts an excellent piece on blogging connections resulting in networking opportunities. As bloggers become more established as experts within their respective fields, ever more networking opportunities will arise. Blog writers are becoming popular speakers in areas ranging from business, to politics, to social and personal topics. Of course, the… Continue Reading
Customizing RSS feeds
Rok Hrastnik, an Internet marketing expert, and author of Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS, has a nice post on customizing your RSS feeds. Rok says the problem with most RSS marketing plans is that the marketer doesn't really go beyond providing a simple RSS feed for all of his online news or… Continue Reading
Blog article in Illinois Bar Journal
Evan Schaeffer reports there's an excellent article on blogs in the Illinois Bar Journal “Helen W. Gunnarsson's article is a great resource for any lawyer who's new to weblogs and is wondering what all the fuss is about. Highly recommended.” Too bad they didn't understand blogs enough to make their article available to members of… Continue Reading
Blog traffic lessons from celebrity blogger
Darren Rowse has a posted a case study providing tips for increasing your blog traffic. Comes from Derek Hail (I'll confess I have no idea who she is) who has learned how to increase her unique visits from 50 to 1500 over the last 6 weeks. She began by promoting her blog through friends, I… Continue Reading
Law and ethics for bloggers : List of resources
Sheila Ann Coggins, your guide on blogs at About.com, has posted a nice list of resources on the law and ethics for bloggers. Many of the resources were put together by Coggins or from contributing authors for the blog section at About.com. That section in and of itself is a nice resource for bloggers. 14… Continue Reading
Stock blogs launch will lead to increase in corporate blogs
We're going to see an increase in corporate blogs following the launch AOL's Blogging Stocks. This per Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion. With this launch, many more employees inside some of the biggest corporations in the world will have a big incentive to start reading blogs. In addition, so will investor relations professionals, analysts, press… Continue Reading