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

From IP.com Inc's Securing Innovation.

His hand-picked list of the people who provide the most interesting tech blogging/tweeting/FriendFeedin.

An Earth Day for the Internet.

What are the odds of a plaintiff winning an employment discrimination lawsuit?

An Alberta law firm has been defrauded of more than $1.4 million dollars over a 3.5 year period by a former legal assistant of the firm.

Have 18 months to prove themselves as valuable cross-media partners for retailers or the flow of advertising dollars away from them may accelerate.

Because of cross-promotion, users of our online sites have become more inclined to pick up a printed newspaper, where paper provides greater context and perspective, as well as portability.

It's YouTube for live video.

Journalism schools need to lead the charge in preparing students in re-defining the acts of journalism. It's more participatory now.

If someone is overreaching in their takedown attempts, it can be effective to respond with a counternotice that clearly states the issues.

There are some bright shining examples of web 2.0 implementations in law firms and then there are the vast majority of the web 1.0 firms.

We could give 4.4 million Americans free college educations at private institutions or 23 million Americans free college educations at public institutions.

Jones Day filed the lawsuit against the real estate news site Blockshopper.com, alleging that using its trademark 'Jones Day' to refer to the firm in a headline and linking to the Jones Day website could lead to confusion over the sponsorship of the site.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin apparently has a blog.

Can't believe I missed 'Talk Like a Pirate Day' on Friday.

Next year I am not booking heavy travel in September and October so I can go.

Say it ain't so.

Cuts in big dollar items mean its time to learn cost effective marketing through social media.

Share of college-age Users is declining.

Sam Zell is not your problem. You are.

Make the arduous job of blogging a little easier by suggesting relevant content worth linking to or adding to your posts.

Copyright law, not just contract law, applies to free software licenses so that those 'who engage in open-source licensing have the right to control the modification and distribution of copyrighted material.'

But not sure I'd care to anymore than going without RSS. Too many good people to get to know and learn from as well as share what I am seeing.

From small business consultant, Anita Campbell.

Sitting down after his presentation, Paul Gillen was able to call up search.twitter.com and read what people had been saying while he talked. Most of them simply summarized points he made, but a few added their opinions.

YouTube's new terms of service will ban footage that "advertises" terrorism or "extremist causes.' Nice.

This site will add more cowbell to any mp3 you upload to it.

Businesses should lose their inhibitions over using the microblogging tool to get closer to their customers says Shel Israel in his article in BusinessWeek

Prime Minister Stephen Harper using social networking tools Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube.

Law firms biting on the green law craze may bite. CO2Stats is a company which says it monitors your website’s environmental footprint and purchases renewable energy to neutralize it.

He's a bold dresser for a lawyer. His suits run the full color gamut, from blue to gray.  Some have pinstripes.  Some don't.  He has a seersucker for the summer, when he's feeling particularly wild.

Websites, forums, blogs, and Twitter empowered rescue and reporting efforts.

Each individual bit of social information is insignificant on its own. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting. The ambient information becomes like “a type of E.S.P."

In the nation’s first such ruling, a federal judge on Wednesday said copyright owners must consider ‘fair use’ of their works before sending takedown notices to online video-sharing sites.

You can say it’s a stupid application, that no business gets done there, but there are too many of us who disagree and point out business value.

The list feature lets you essentially group friends you're following into smaller groups, with common examples being 'Favorites', 'Family', 'Business', etc.

This from CNN's Rick Sanchez. Anyone know a cheap cable TV channel for sale?

Labor Day, end of summer, and start of the football season from Austin's Jamie Spencer.