Add BlawgSearch.com Search Results to your Website or Blog
Hi Friends,
We have added the ability for you to have BlawgSearch search results on your Website or Blog with your own look and feel.
The html code for adding the Blawg Search results to your Website or legal Blog is given here: http://blawgsearch.justia.com/friendsearch.aspx
We provide a small amount of html and Javascript code that uses AJAX to pull just the BlawgSearch results to your Web page. You just need to paste the code we provide where you would like the results to appear. You can return 5, 10 or 20 results at a time.
You can view a generic search page here.
BLAWG CATEGORY SEARCHES
You can also limit search results to any of the categories of the BlawgSearch directory. You just select the category you would like to search and the code will be generated for you (with an option to search all of the legal blogs as well).
For example one could search Civil Rights or all of the Legal Blogs with a generic header and footer.
Of course you can choose your own category to focus on, for example Law Librarian Blogs, Law Practice Blogs, California Legal Blogs, or even a particular law school, such as Stanford Law School Blogs (our puppy, Little Sheba the Hug Pug, has a Dog Law Website with the Animal Law blogs category).
ADD SEARCH TO BLOG OR WEBSITE SIDEBAR
The search and search results can also fit in the side bar of a blog, like we have just added to our legal marketing blog on the left hand side of this page). We are returning 5 results at a time for the sidebar legal blog search.
Again, here is where you go to add Blawg Search search results to your Web site or Blog or even an Intranet Web page: http://blawgsearch.justia.com/friendsearch.aspx
Feel free to try it out, and if you have any feedback, that will be greatly appreciated (feedback from the first version got us to switch from iframes to AJAX :)
Peace,
Tim
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Yapta.com - Tracking Airline Fare Price Drops & Getting Coupons
Hi Friends,
I initially wrote this up for the LMA list, but after rereading my email I figured it would be a good post. And it has Bellingham Washington in it, which is good.
There is a new free service that will be of interest to those who travel a lot. It is called Yapta and it tracks price changes in flights and then alerts you to price drops so you can obtain refunds or traffic coupons on the difference in price. Yapta just opened up their beta to new users. The url is http://yapta.com.
Slightly reworded cut down version of the Yapta press release to describe the service...
Yapta.com allows users to track specific flights from online itineraries offered at leading domestic airline websites (eg American Airlines, Delta...) or online travel agents (eg Orbitz, Expedia...), and have pricing continually monitored thereafter. Yapta thus assures that users get alerted to the lowest possible price for airline tickets. Bringing to light pro-consumer "guaranteed airfare rules" offered by many airlines, the service helps air travelers obtain travel vouchers -- and in some cases, cash refunds -- when the price decreases on tickets that have already been purchased.
In December 2006, Yapta initiated a private-beta test of the service, allowing select consumers to tag flights, receive alerts on airfare price drops, and capture refunds and travel vouchers. In just three months, Yapta alerted its 275 test users to approximately $30,000 in eligible savings and refunds, for an average net benefit of $109 per traveler.
If you or some in your firm travel a lot (eg bizdev or lawyers :), it is a good service to check out. You use it by either entering in your flight plans or tagging flights on Orbitz, Expedia or other services. (just like using del.icio.us or Google Bookmarks).
Yapta is not another airline search service, it is really best used to track decreases in prices of tickets you have already bought (or to track price changes in flights you are considering taking if the price falls). Again, the beta is now open and the url is http://yapta.com
Here are some additional resources:
I am sure the Yapta service will lead to a lot of cost savings by making the airline pricing more transparent.
Peace,
Tim
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BlawgSearch.com Current & Historical Blawg Rankings
Hi Friends,
We have added historical snapshots of the most popular blawgs on a monthly basis since we released BlawgSearch in October of 2006. For each month we have listed the 200 most popular blawgs overall, as well as the top 20 blawgs in each category.
While we have been showing the most popular blawgs on BlawgSearch on the BlawgSearch home page, the historical rankings seemed interesting (and are likely to be more interesting in a few years :).
You can check out the monthly historical snapshots here and the overall leaders since the beginning of (BlawgSearch) time here. And note: the Justia BlawgSearch legal blog directory allows you to sort blawgs by popularity on a daily, weekly, monthly or all time basis as well as alphabetically or by last post date.
We rank the blawgs based on the number of visits or podcast plays the blawg receives from the BlawgSearch.com and Blawgs.FM sites. We also include any visits that comes from the AJAX or iframe search results being used by others on their sites (more on that tomorrow :). We have some protections in place to guard against rankings click fraud and we have slightly discounted our own Blawgs (no Justia team clicks :). There are different weights depending on where the clicks occur, but basically if people see your blawg on BlawgSearch and decide to visit your Blawg, your blawg is ranked higher.
You might want to compare the category rankings we have with those on Blawg.com (the highly respected and well known directory and search engine of legal blawgs).
And the most "popular"? Above the Law. AtL has been leading now for a number of months and seems to be at or near the top everyday.
In this blog's category... the most popular legal marketing blawg of "all time"? a blog by some guy named Kevin who works at LexBlog but Professor Eric Goldman is starting to catch up. Check out the current and past leaders in any of the hundred plus categories from law professors to technology.
Finally I am not sure how meaningful the rankings are, they do not indicate what is a good blawg or bad blawg (I second everything Bill wrote in his post), but people love law blog metrics.
Peace,
Tim
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Legal Newswire for Thomson-Reuters?
Hi Friends,
This from Today's New York Times...
While no decisions have yet been made, he [Tom Glocer] said Reuters might hire about 50 additional journalists to create a legal news wire, integrating it with Thomson’s current offerings to lawyers.
Interesting... and I believe that Thomson will use some of their education division sale money to purchase American Lawyer Media. We will see... in the mean time, I am taking bets.
Peace,
Tim
Source: Thomson Adds Reuters in $17 Billion Bid to Be Giant New York Times (16 May 2007).
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Gino Wins!!!
Stacy, Dana and I went to the Contra Costa Bodybuilding, Figure & Fitness Championships on Saturday to cheer our friend Gino Eagle Johnson on in the Ultra Grand Masters category.
The Ultra Grand Masters is the division for those over 60. Gino is 70 years young and he won his class! Gino is a personal trainer at Gold's Gym in Mountain View (where we work out :), and he plans to compete in the Nationals in Pittsburgh this July. What an inspiration!
Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler performed as the guest poser. He put on a great show posing and also talking individually to fans. Mr. Olympia shared the inspiring story of how he won the Olympia after being told he would never win it or compete professionally for that matter. Through hard work and determination he achieved his life dream.
Other Mountain View Gold's folks also competed. Doug placed 2nd in the Grand Masters division. And Saraya placed 4th in her very first bodybuilding competition with a salsa-inspired posing routine.
There are more pictures in the extended entry.
Congratulations to all!
Peace,
Tim
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Tom Glocer's Blog - Reuters' CEO and New Thomson CEO???
Hi Friends,
Tom Glocer, Reuters' CEO and likely new Thomson CEO to be, has his own blog. Just a few posts, but Tom is posting himself. Click here to read Tom's Blog.
Source: WSJ Law Blog Comment
Peace,
Tim
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