Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, announced last week a new way to make money on WordPress.com. Subscription payments.
Though valuable to some website owners and bloggers, I don’t see the subscription revenue feature of value to legal bloggers.
From Artur Pizek, a chief architect at Automattic, introducing the subscription feature:
“It’s hard
A jewelry artist with an online store shared on Reddit that she was considering launching a blog to drive business.
She could think of “a lot” of tutorials she could write about making jewelry. She was concerned though that if she told people how to make jewelry, they wouldn’t buy from her, they’d make their
One can own a race car, but that doesn’t mean you know how to drive it.
The same is true of a blog in the case of lawyers. Law firm websites everywhere have a page titled “blog.” Large law firms have multiple blogs.
But are the lawyers blogging? Do they know how to blog?
It’s
Clara Hendrickson of the Brookings Institution writes what we’re all realizing, local journalism is in crisis.
”Thousands of local newspapers have closed in recent years. Their disappearance has left millions of Americans without a vital source of local news and deprived communities of an institution essential for exposing wrongdoing and encouraging civic engagement. Of those
Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist for Amazon’s AWS and a key player in its growth, spends 80% of his time blogging.
Not just any blog, but a blog about AWS news and answers to questions that arise internally and externally in regard to AWS. The AWS News Blog.
AWS, if you are not familiar
I’m sharing below the table of contents, if you will, of a guide to legal blogging. I welcome your input on what I’m missing.
Why a guide to legal blogging?
Over the years, I have been asked more than once to write a book on the basics of legal blogging.
A lawyer in a larger
I was struck reading Li Jin’s recent piece on the passion economy being the future of work by how much the concept applies to lawyers and blogging.
Jin, an investment partner with Andreessen Horowitz, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm, writes:
“The top-earning writer on the paid newsletter platform Substack earns more
The Recorder’s Karen Sloan reported this week that an attorney-discipline blogger and a blog network owned by Pepperdine Law’s dean were hit with a defamation suit.
“The lawsuit was filed against Michael Frisch, adjunct professor and ethics counsel at Georgetown University Law Center, who is also the primary author of the Legal Profession Blog, which
When comparing methods of looking for a lawyer, 59% of clients seek a referral from someone they know or have been in contact with.
Methods such as using an online search engine (17%) and visiting a lawyer’s website (17%), though important for some consumers of legal services, trailed referrals, substantially, as a source of legal
Legal publishing has long been the province of law reviews, law journals and traditional publishers.
But with publishing democratized by WordPress, first used for blogs and now the most widely used content management system in the world, blog software could represent the future for legal publishing.
The readership of legal blogs and publications published on