Real Lawyers Have Blogs : Law Blogs, Social Media, Twitter

We may have found found answer to closing news bureaus and news agencies. Twitter.

You could do a lot worse.

Agree with Neville Hobson and his commenters that Technorati as a blog search tool isn’t reliable any longer. Any surprise with VC's just babysitting site?

Whether by Twitter or social networking websites people are using social media to track Hurricane Gustav and prepare to react to needs generated around the storm.

No wonder LexBlog clients want us to get our recorded webinars on podcasts.

Most law firm associates, summer associates and law students are on Facebook so currying favor with their own associates and prospective hires makes sense for large law.

LUF plane has more ports than my MacBook Air.

If there is a concerned group of folks worried about dangerous chemicals leaking into the drinking water, it could put that story up, and if enough people contribute to the investigation, a reporter can get paid and do the investigation.

Tribune may be seeing its business deteriorating and its debt slipping further into junk territory. But it may also be gaining leverage in its negotiations to sell perhaps its most prized possession: the Chicago Cubs.

I define myself by who I follow, I follow smart people who teach me things and put interesting stuff in my view.

The newspaper industry has a devastating history of letting the future of media slip from its grasp.

They have a Flickr stream. And a Twitter feed.. 

Quite a mapping of social media.

$10,000 a day per reporter while bloggers spend about $200 to $300 a day. No wonder newspapers are losing their ass.

Ironic that GetLegal started spamming my blog comments this week.

McGlinchey Stafford post titles a little ahead of those from other large law firm blogs.

Could we have guessed this when attending Gnomedex '06?

Stock car races in 2012 Olympics in Chicago.

Getting out of hardware business would be nice for LexBlog.

And I thought everyone just posted notes to their blog or Twitter.

Of all the things you can possibly run out of, time is the one you cannot replace.

Save the country. Save the children. Get a chip on your shoulder. Get angry and happy about something. Stretch big. Talk hard. And do something.

As a traditional reporter, why not learn how to use Twitter? It's here to stay.

Another exhaustive list from Robin Good.

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework and Partner at 37Signals gives insight into creating a profitable startup company.

The strong who survive may end up being the ones who call themselves 'The Hammer,' not the ones who behave with the dignity one would expect from a professional.

Rubel now has over 5000 following him on Friendfeed - 60% of what he has on Twitter.

Scientific proof that other people really do look more attractive to us if we have been drinking.

Her DUI firm was struggling to land clients but instead of resigning herself to the inevitable, she decides to improve the firm’s marketing efforts to keep herself employed.

That and calling something live when it's 3 hours delayed for us on the West Coast has me watching baseball.

Gideon, you may find it's hard to find the electrical socket after you've unplugged yourself from the blogging matrix.

Where are we with that insurance coverage Weston?

Hosted by Jon Hyman at Ohio Employer's Law Blog who puts on his own Olympic events in both labor and non-labor categories.

Maybe we're not going back to the Scott Hunter and Dan Devine days that followed Bart Starr and Vince Lombardi.

From Robert Scoble.

Court relies on a federal law aimed at computer intrusions in issuing its order, holding that even discussing the flaws at a public conference constituted a 'transmission' of a computer program that could harm the Boston Transit fare collection system.

Sell Cubs to Mark Cuban for $1.2 Billion and that'll save some journalism jobs at the Tribune Company.

And I thought he was a Giants fan during Championship Game last year against Packers. Or is a PR spin to go with what's hot?

And I was just about to unsubscribe to my hard copy delivered to my office.

PPT presentation given at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

'And yes, he really did return edited stories with razor words, such as 'Is English your first language?' But when he praised a story, you could trust and truly enjoy the accolades. I loved working for him.'

Yet another proof point that Web 2.0 remains a buyers’ market. It is not a good sign for tens of dozens of companies that have cropped up across the web, that vanish after making an early splash.

Dedicated roles and direction will develop in traditional corporate settings.

Discusses role with Edelman Digital, how uses RSS to keep in the know and trends in social networking - including Friendfeed. The article is not online but the full PDF is here or you can simply click through images up on Flickr.

If you were among those lawyers advertising in urinals you may be pleased to learn of a new ad campaign from deodorant maker Right Guard.

It's no longer del.icio.us. Now, it's delicious.com. It's got a new look, feel and even some new functionality.

Casting a fishing rod in one's favorite Bay in Prince Edward Island shows how accessible technology has made working away from what we've all come to define as the traditional 'office.'