From Bill Gratsch at Blawg.org, the dualopoly of Thomson/West and LexisNexis are getting into RSS. Thomson’s Westlaw Watch service is now offering an RSS version of the content normally aggregated and sent via email. LexisNexis Mealey’s now makes their top headlines available via RSS feeds. In addition, Mealey’s offers an OPML feed of many of… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Blogging conference and politics : Lesson for lawyer and professional service firm bloggers
Wasn’t sure that a tech conference and politics was a good mix. But did pick up one thing from Senator John Edwards keynote at Gnomedex today. Discussion, as opposed to speech, with John asking the audience to help him learn more about how technology can be used to empower democracy. He said he learned a… Continue Reading
China clamping down on bloggers
Per Steve Ruble, China is tightening blog and search engine supervision in a big way. Per Xinhua, China’s central media agency: As more and more illegal and unhealthy information spreads through the blog and search engine, we will take effective measures to put the BBS, blog and search engine under control,’ said Cai Wu, director… Continue Reading
Thanks Austin legal marketers
Traveling East allows enjoyment of nightlife as flying into Austin Monday night at 11:30 was only 9:30 my time. My hotel only a block from 6th street was too tempting for someone who has never been to Austin. Turned the corner and found a Disneyland of bars. 3 buds later and 2:30 am found me… Continue Reading
LexBlog blog on new client servers – Yahoo
Should appear seamless to you but this blog and the LexBlog site are now sitting on LexBlog’s new client servers and operating on LexBlog’s upgraded blog publishing platform. Comment spam and trackback spam gone or way reduced, new publishing features, upgraded stats package, and a few other items. Still not as advanced as latest client… Continue Reading
Gnomedex on top of us
A good number of blog leaders from throughout the world are descending in Seattle today for Gnomedex, which begins with a reception tonight. Great group of speakers during the day and appears plenty of partying scheduled at night. I'll broadcast live from Gnomedex here on my blog beginning tomorrow morning. Heck, I was bouncing about… Continue Reading
TrueHoop NBA live draft coverage blog blowing 'em away
Henry Abbot's live coverage of the NBA draft on his TrueHoop blog is blowing away some major sports websites like Yahoo sports and Espn (charging for access). Why basketball on my blog? I'm an avid fan, I admit it. And TrueHoop is a LexBlog client and we're monitoring server traffic which takes huge jumps on… Continue Reading
Net neutrality is no brainer : Contact your Senator and Congressperson, the telecoms are winning
More I read about net neutrality, the more it's a no brainer. At the same time telecom, cable and high-speed providers are doing everything they can to get a two tier Internet going. One that gives preferred access to web sites that pay and a lesser access to those who don't. Imagine if we had… Continue Reading
Blogs open doors for new jobs and opportunities
Jeff Jarvis picked up on an Ad Age cover story about blogs opening doors for new jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities. In the last two weeks, Robert Scoble, Om Malik and Thomas Hawk quit their jobs in favor of pioneering careers. Big deal. So did probably hundreds of other Americans, right? But unlike the former three,… Continue Reading
Real estate blogs are coming
Scoble reports that the real estate blog of a friend at Coldwell Banker delivers about 65% of his traffic. LexBlog will be picking up more real estate agents as blog clients. We already did the design, licensed our platform, and host True Gotham for New York real estate brokers, The Heddings Property Group, a Prudential… Continue Reading
BloggerCon is fascinating discussion : Where are blogging lawyers?
For those not attending nor listening into BloggerCon, going on today and yesterday in San Francisco, the discussion among topics ranging from citizen journalism, vlogging, to ethics in blogging and much more is eye opening as all get out. As bloggers, we have an obligation to improve our skills – people are listening to what… Continue Reading
Title tags and SEO for blogs
Darren Rowse has a wonderful post on title tags and SEO for blogs, Ain't no way I am going to summarize it all, you need to read the whole post. It's that good but here's some highlights, if for no other reason than to teach myself by teaching you. Title tags define the title of… Continue Reading
Latin American legal blogs : International directory is looking for 'em
San Diego lawyer Dan Hull, publisher of What About Clients, is calling for any Latin American legal blogs. Dan's been doing a nice job of assembling a listing on International legal blogs. Looks like he's got 22 or more countries covered in a lengthy list of blogs in the left navigation bar of his blog…. Continue Reading
Traits of successful bloggers : UMass study
Via Steve Rubel, a UMass study has identified the traits of a successful bloggers. Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Chancellor Professor of Marketing, conducted the study (pdf copy), by interviewing 74 different business bloggers to identify what makes some stand out more than others. I have not read the study yet but Steve says it's chockfull… Continue Reading
Group blogs versus personal blogs
Shel Israel provides his take on group blogs versus personal blogs. The basic issue is that team blogs give enterprise executives more comfort because the company brand remains over any personal brands. On the other hand, most of the most popular blogs are the work of individuals who write mostly about their work. I agree… Continue Reading