Real Lawyers Have Blogs : Law Blogs, Blawgs, Law Firm Marketing

Blogging, like baseball, is a continuum of talent. Instead of hitting and pitching, blogging is about having something meaningful to say, informing, entertaining and educating your community. But most importantly it is about ability to converse, connect and prod your readers into thinking differently. The game is still the same, except there are new heroes and stars.

Yahoo and MSN continue decline.

Illinois Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Avvo, an Internet site that allows clients to rate their lawyer's performance is not entitled to a list of attorneys in the state.

Tens of thousands of additional jobs may have to be eliminated at newspapers because the staff reductions that have taken place to date have not kept pace with the accelerating erosion of advertising.

Israel's treatment of an award-winning young Palestinian journalist is part of a terrible pattern.

The ability to use your own voice, talk in the manner you feel most comfortable, and get your point across without digressing too much will do.

Added the greatest number of high-tech jobs in 2006, outpacing Boston, San Francisco and more than 50 other U.S. cities. Not sure that's good when LexBlog is in hiring mode.

Blogging lawyers from Hawaii featured in Honolulu Star Bulletin.

Red Cross is using sites like Utterz, Flickr, YouTube and Twitter.

Not advocating doing it every day but there’s something quite special that happens when you do. It humanizes you as a blogger a little, shows a different side of you, makes you more relatable to your readers and gives them another potential connecting point with you.

Former UC Berkeley student who was arrested in Egypt and used the micro-messaging service Twitter to get himself out of jail wants to start a Twitter-driven network for emergency situations.

There's so much more to the people on Twitter and a ton more to come as Twitter breaks into the masses of mainstream.