Dennis Howell, via Kim Kralowec, points to another credibility point for blawgs among the appellate judiciary. From Professor Shaun Martin at the University of San Diego School of Law: Pretty interesting when a fairly substantial portion of your dissent entails a block quote from a blawg. As Judge O’Scannlain — joined by four others —… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: July 2006
Research papers on blogging : Blogs big in journalism and mass communication university programs
Constantin Basturea shares a treasure trove of research papers on blogging. They’re the blog-related papers to be presented 89th Convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), to be held on San Francisco on August 2-5, 2006. Here’s what’s available by attending and as Constantin suggests, hopefully the big PR firms… Continue Reading
I thought Barbie was blonde…
I was wondering how Microsoft Windows Live Spaces’ sponsorship of Blogher ’06 would play out. From Amy Gahran: …I had to cringe at the campy, off-target Microsoft presentation during the welcome session just a few minutes ago. To promote its new Windows Live Spaces service, someone at Microsoft thought it would be appropriate and fun… Continue Reading
Blog resources from the Blog Studio
The Blog Studio has put together a nice list of blog resources. Covers, among other things: Adding YouTube to your blog Web stats Podcasting Adding FeedBurner Adding blog polls Using blog editors Blog aggregators Keeping track of your comments on other blogs Source of post: The Blog Herald Technorati Tags: blog resources
Hurricane law : Emerging field addressed by large law firm blog
This morning’s Naples Daily News had a lengthy article about hurricane law becoming an emerging field of law. McGlinchey Stafford’s Hurricane Law Blog is a perfect example of how a large law firm may market on such a niche area of the law through the effective use of a blog. Though it’s taken some work,… Continue Reading
Law blogs as a vast amicus brief
Pennsylvania Appellate lawyer Howard Bashman posts an op-ed at Law.com on viewing law blogs as a vast amicus brief. (reg. req’ed.) For non-lawyers, an amicus brief is filed by a party who volunteers to offer information on a point of law or some other matter to assist a court of appeals in deciding an appeal… Continue Reading
Happy Birthday to Doc Searles
Happy Birthday to Doc Searles who’s 59 today. Doc’s one of the authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto which discussed markets as conversations well before the concept evolved on blogs.
Organization helping disabled : Links do not open new windows
I know I am opening a can of worms on the debate on links not opening windows. From Knowbility, whose mission is to support the independence of children and adults with disabilities by promoting the use and improving the availability of accessible information technology: These are items that detract from accessibility and usability of websites…. Continue Reading
Is your blog fully accessible under Americans with Disabilities Act?
Craig Williams has a nice summary of San Jose, Blogger Skye Kilaen’s Blogher presentation making your blog fully accessible. Create a strong color contrast between the text and the background. Black text on white background is preferred by people who have a difficult time seeing. Label your images. Those who are blind and use screen… Continue Reading
Law blogger at Blogher : How blogging is transforming her life
Wilson Sonsini Partner, Cathy Kirkman, reports she is speaking on a Blogher ’06 panel today on the topic of ‘transforming your life with blogging.’ As timely evidence of the impact of blogging, yesterday the San Jose Mercury News ran a page one story on the conference, which mentioned me and my blog, along with several… Continue Reading
‘Sphere It’ : Added to Time.com, locates blogs on article topic
Newspapers and magazines are scrambling for ways to become more relevant to their readers which are now getting their content online. One way is to tap into the blog content. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has been writting about 3 month old blog search engine Sphere and explains how it works in his post about Time.com… Continue Reading
Zen of business blogging
The Freshbooks Blog posts about the Zen of business blogging. The essence of the post is that under Zen it is possible to become enlightened in a single moment, without years of training, based on even a single interaction with the right teacher – point being that what’s happens when someone ‘gets’ what blogs are,… Continue Reading
Live blogging from Blogher : Found it
Jennifer Zug of Seattle is blogging live from Blogher. She says “Please excuse type and grammar errors and lack of links!” Thanks Jen from those of us back in Seattle where we’re enjoying a cool day under the marine layer. Technorati Tags: Blogher, Blogher 06
Blogher underway in San Jose : Any live updates or audio?
Blogher ’06 is underway this am in San Jose. Wish I was there, but originally planned to be in Wisconsin. Unlike Gnomedex, BloggerCon, and other new media conferences, there does not appear to be any live blog feeds or audio for the benefit of non-attendees. If you know of any, please blog it and/or drop… Continue Reading
Judges reading legal blogs
From Steve Bainbridge, I picked up on discussion between he and Howard Bashman on judges reading legal blogs. Howard asks: What should judges do if, while visiting the legal blogosphere, they encounter discussions about how pending cases ought to be decided? And concludes: … if the blog post is publicly available to anyone with Internet… Continue Reading