New LexBlog - Real Lawyers Have Blogs - Blog
Hi Friends,
Kevin O'Keefe and the LexBlog team have updated the design and features of the LexBlog's "Real Lawyers Have Blogs" Blog.
LexBlog has changed the blog into a resource center for legal bloggers, with a Chicago Cubs look and feel :) Very nice... check it out (like we do every day :)
Peace,
Tim
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BlawgSearch Top Law Professor Blogs by edu visitors and Top Blawgs for August 2007
Hi Friends,
First, here are the top ten law professor blogs as determined by vistors on .edu networks on BlawgSearch.com. I set this filter up for Professor J. Robert Brown, Jr. and a paper he was writing on blogs and reputation. You can read his post about it here. While most .edu visitors are not all law professors, they do seek out more academic blogs. Anyway here is the list.
- By Professors Dan Markel, Ethan J. Leib, Rob Howse, Paul Horwitz, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Steve Vladeck and Orly Lobel.
- Covers business, law, economics and society. By Professors Gordon Smith, Christine Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, and Lisa Fairfax.
- Covers constitutional theory, feminist legal theory, law and economics, normative legal theory and more. By University of Illinois Professor Lawrence B. Solum.
- Covers emerging empirical legal scholarship, conference updates and empirical claims. Edited by Professors Jason Czarnezki, Michael Heise, Theodore Eisenberg, William Ford, Sara Benesh, William Henderson, and Frank Cross.
- Covers civil liberties, the Internet, Guantanamo, Iraq attrocities, politics and more. By University of Miami law professor Michael Froomkin.
- By Moritz College of Law Professor Douglas A. Berman.
- By Eugene Volokh, Dale Carpenter, David Kopel, David Bernstein, David Post, Erik Jaffe, Ilya Somin, Jim Lindgren, Jonathan Adler, Kevan Choset, Orin Kerr, Randy Barnett, Russell Korobkin, Sasha Volokh, Stuart Benjamin, Todd Zywicki & Tyler Cowen.
- By University of Toledo College of Law Professor Howard M. Friedman.
- Covers Internet, technology and online marketing legal issues. Published by Santa Clara University School of Law Professor Eric Goldman.
- By Yale Law School Professor Jack M. Balkin.
And Here are the overall most popular blogs on BlawgSearch.com for August 2007. David Badertscher's New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library Blog lead the way.
- News and information gateway to web based services provided by the New York State Supreme Court Criminal Term Library in New York County.
- A legal tabloid that provides news and gossip about the profession's colorful personalities and powerful institutions, as well as original commentary on breaking legal developments.
- Covers Indiana law, as well as interesting developments in law and government. By Marcia Oddi.
- Covers CAFA, class certification, employment law, FCRA, FDCPA and multidistrict litigation. Published by Michael Hassen of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP.
- Covers law and business and the business of law. By the Wall Street Journal.
- Covers mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds, venture capital and law. A Financial News Service of The New York Times.
- Covers due diligence, lawsuits, Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, and recovery of losses. By Michael Webster.
- Covers appellate litigation. By Howard J. Bashman.
- By University of Toledo College of Law Professor Howard M. Friedman.
- Established with the goal of aggregating key compliance and electronic discovery news for further review, study, and consideration by legal and corporate professionals. Published by Rob Robinson.
You can view the Top 200 Legal Blogs for May 2007 or view the most popular blogs in August for each of hundreds of categories. And you can view the main page of the rankings for August 2007 here.
Peace,
Tim
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ABA Journal Website - News, Articles, Blawgs!!!
Hi Friends,
Let me start our new month of blogging with a post on the great new ABA Journal Website. The site went live a few weeks ago, and includes articles from the magazine, updated daily news and a legal blog directory. The site is from ABA Journal Editor and Publisher Ed Adams, Fred Faulkner IV and the ABA Journal Web development and editorial team.
If you have not checked the new ABA Journal Website out already, you definitely should!
The new ABA Journal site brings a new focus on current legal news, which you can subscribe to by way of a RSS feed. The over look and feel is very clean and good looking, with a lot of focus on the user experience.
ABA Journal Magazine articles from the current and past issues are available to all... for free :)
And there is the ABA blawg directory that categorizes over a thousand blogs. Very nicely done.
You can read more about the new ABA Journal Website from Bob Amrbogi and Blawg.com's Bill Gratsch who wrote about it when the ABA Journal Website first came out :)
Again, check out the site if you have not already. There is a great amount of information on the site of interest to lawyers and anyone interested in law.
Peace,
Tim
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Back to Blogging.. and Congrats to Appalachian State
Hi Friends,
Ken, Stacy and I are going to get back to blogging... finally :) We have been working on a few legal information projects this summer... which we talk about in the next few weeks.
But first, congrats to Appalachian State for beating Michigan on Saturday. It was a great game that they deserved to win. Not everyday a division IAA schools visits the number #5 team in the nation and beats them in front of every 109,000 fans. In fact never before, not even something close. Well maybe Michigan can win the rest of their games, win the BCS championship and be the second best team in the country.... And for my other school.. I went to the Stanford - UCLA game, and UCLA won (on the positive side, my seats are in the shade and UCLA is my third favorite team :).
UPDATE: LexBlog - Montana student Colin O'Keefe interviewed Appalachian State athletic director Charlie Cobb on the Grizzoulian blog. Now I am sure he is off to interview GT AD Dan Radakovich:)
Peace,
Tim
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TechnoLawyer BlawgWorld 2007 eBook Released
Hi Friends,
This years BlawgWorld e-book is out from Neil Squillante, Sara Skiff and the TechnoLawyer Team.
The BlawgWorld 2007 ebook has sample posts from a number of blogs, AND a legal technology solutions guide. You can download the ebook here. It is free :)
You can also check out the ebook press materials, including a video on the TechnoLawyer blog.
So download away, read a few posts, and check out the solutions guide as well!
Peace,
Tim
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Lawyer Videos on Websites, Blogs and GoogTube et al
Hi Friends,
In the next week, I will be writing a series of posts on making and using video in your Website or blog. Many people, and a few lawyers, are making and uploading video for use on their Websites or blogs, as well as uploading to video hosting services like YouTube, Google Video or any of the numerous other online video sharing services.
I have made a few videos with my pugs and birthday parties. Of course if you are a law firm, you might want to have professionals, or at least qualified amateurs, film and edit your video. But even if you want to have a high quality professional video, like the Google Mini video below, you can still use a pug (pugs go nice with the Google Mini :).
And you can embed a video from Google Video...
... or YouTube directly in your Website or blog.
In the upcoming posts, I will cover video filming and production, including finding help to film your video (if needed) without breaking your budget, suggest what to present in your video (as a lawyer, not a pug :), how to convert and save your video to Web friendly formats, how to upload your video to GoogTube et al, and finally how to embed your (or someone else's) video into your Website or blog. All of this is pretty straight forward, but there are a lot of small parts, so I am going to break it up into multiple posts.
And if you like Glen Campbell's singing as much as I do, you can visit my video blog, and view Glen Campbell singing"Wichita Lineman" through the years...
Ok... some info you can use coming soon :)
Peace,
Tim
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Blawg Review #112
Hi Friends,
Welcome to our take on the blawgosphere in this Blawg Review #112 of the review of blawgs. It has been a fun week of reading blogs and interesting posts. Many thanks to the Blawg Review editors for giving us this opportunity to write this week's Blawg Review. It is impossible to cover all of the great blogs and posts out there, so consider this a small slice of last week's posts (and I now realize we have a lot of great blogs to add to BlawgSearch.com this week).
Law and Economics
The University of Chicago team of Economics Noble Prize Winner Gary Becker and US 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner Judge publish the great Becker-Posner Blog. This is one I have read every week since it came out. I often disagree, but I love it.
This week, Gary Becker did a post about Women's earning power in the economy. It is an interesting verbal analysis. He focused a bit on the increasing education and earning power of woman, but was not sure that at the highest income levels they would be competitive with men because many women take time off to raise young children. As Professor Becker stated... "even if the average hourly earnings of women reached parity or surpassed that of men, it is unlikely even without discrimination against women that they will be as represented as men at the top of the earnings distribution. For while combining household with market activities hurts average earnings, it is a really strong hindrance to having enough time to make that supreme commitment to work that is usually necessary to achieve great financial success." Judge Posner commented on Becker's post and covered some additional issues. In particular he noted that if women get better grades in college on average (as the data shows) that maybe they are being discriminated against during the admission process. He said this might be rational on the schools part, if men donate more money.
That is just an example of the economic analysis Becker and Posner bring to legal issues, at least once a week. I strongly recommend reading this blog, just to bring a different perspective to your thinking if nothing else.
Legal Marketing and Practice
I first heard of using blogs to market your law practice from Rick Klau during a panel we were on together back in 2003. Rick told a story about how he had written a post on Brobeck (the former marketing power house...) and been contacted by the press. At that time I thought... reach the press, who need information that is quickly updated, that makes sense. That week I made a quick blog on blogger, it was going to be a new product. Then I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to have some quality time to relax and think. So I made my first real blog with my dog Little Sheba the Hug Pug. Once Justia came online as a development company in 2005, Ken and I started writing the Justia Legal SEO & Marketing Blog (this one) and we have recently added the Justia Law Review Blog. Rick was right... blogging is a good tool for legal marketing.
The big legal marketing story this week was the new Avvo lawyer directory. It was in stealth for over a year (except for their VC funding press releases) and is now in beta. Kevin O'Keefe broke the news on Monday. And sure enough Avvo was released on Tuesday.
Mark Britton gave the reason for Avvo to the Seattle Times (Tuesday, June 5, 2007):
"There's no established brand in the legal industry," Britton said.
"When you are looking for a book, there's Amazon; when travel, you have Expedia; for jobs, there's Monster; and when it comes to search, there's Google. But when it comes to legal, there's nothing."
Maybe Avvo Board Member Lou Andreozzi can tell Mark about Martindale-Hubbell and Lawyers.com. But on to the blawgospehere analysis...
The blog reviews of Avvo were mixed, with most legal blogs being somewhat negative. The basic issues were the (1) numeric scoring, (2) incorrect and missing data and (3) functionality (having to use a credit card to claim a profile... etc...). Bob Ambrogi sort of summed up the thoughts of many in the legal community about Avvo:
So can the worth of a lawyer be calculated in a numerical score? Call me a skeptic. The problem is that the qualities that make a great lawyer are intangible. Yes, a disciplinary record is a tangible fact that reflects poorly on a lawyer. But what about a lawyer's win/loss record in the courtroom? Perhaps the lawyer has lost more than won, but perhaps that is because the lawyer is a committed advocate willing to take on the tough cases no one else will. What kind of scoring system could calculate that? What kind of mathematical scoring system could measure a lawyer's ability to provide sage counsel to distraught individuals or troubled businesses?
The problems inherent in a site such as this are illustrated in an article published today by CNET's Declan McCullagh, Lawyer Rating Site Not Without Objections. After testing Avvo, McCullagh found it "riddled with bizarre errors, profiles of attorneys who have been dead for more than a century and inexplicable scores in which some felons received better ratings than law school deans and internationally renowned litigators."
Bob's partner on the Legal Talk Network (see below) J. Craig Williams was dead man practicing for awhile on Avvo (see Avvo-cadabra; It's Got Me As A Cadaver on JCW's May it Please the Court blog), but a data error was fixed, some data added and now JCW is a 10.
Carolyn Elefant also gave a detailed analysis of the Avvo directory on Legal Blog Watch and on her own My Shingle blog with her post "Judge Bork's choice of counsel and the Avvo rating system" (Judge Bork chose Randy Mastro of Gibson Dunn) in Judge Bork's personal injury case against the Yale Club for $1 Million (you can also read about the Judge Bork law suit on Overlawyered, Legal Juice, Eric Turkewitz's New York Personal Injury Law Blog). Her analysis was a number would not tell the true value of an attorney, even if the profile information was complete. There is more to it than just skill, there is the relationship between the lawyer and the client.
On the pro Avvo side Mazi Hedayat wrote a a defense of Avvo which included his response to Carolyn's Legal Blog Watch post.
And Larry Bodine also gave a run through on Avvo, including my own "Looks Good" post (it is pretty, and I see the ratings are primarily as a way to "get" the lawyers to update their profiles, which will be of value, even if the rating itself never is). And of course there might be a few Avvo related lawsuits.
Onto other marketing news, Tom Kane had an interesting post on his blog "Letting Partners Go Is Nothing New" about some of the recent firings at Mayer Brown. The key point is a reference to a previous post he wrote a year and a half ago.... "Rainmakers Don't Get Fired" (worth reading again for those working in large firms -- nonrainmaking solo's don't get fired, they starve).
Susan Cartier Liebel had an interesting post on firing your clients. This is a great post to read, and it applies to more than just law firms. I especially liked how she classified the clients into Star Customers, Vulnerable Customers, Free Riders, and The Lost Cause. Check out this and other articles on Susan's blog.
And there are a number of blogs that help lawyers blog better. One of the best is LexBlog's Kevin O'Keefe's Real Lawyers Have Blogs. Kevin posts everyday (often multiple times a day), finding information on other lawyer and general marketing blogs and helping apply what he learns to information you can use in your legal blogging. In the last week, Kevin has covered search engine optimization, blog design, using blogs to build your personal brand, as well as numerous other topics (including breaking the Avvo release news). Kevin uses his time on the Bainbridge to Seattle ferry twice a day to bring you the news. I like Kevin, but I love his blog :)
Blogging in Court
Of course there can be some dangers of blogging. Eric Turkewitz has a few interesting posts on his New York Personal Injury Law Blog about a doctor who was blogging live during his own trial. He has a rundown of the case in a post he did a couple of weeks ago. This week Eric wrote 3 new posts on the blogging doctor case - deconstructing the Trial of Flea Part 1 Part 2 and Part 3. The last post talks about the morality of the Boston Globe publishing the doctors name, thus assuring that the doctor will be associated with the case for many years to come... thanks to Google (I agree with Eric that the name was not necessary to the story, so I will not repeat it here).
Privacy
There were some posts on privacy issues this week. Two of my favorites were from Professor Froomkin and Professor Bainbridge.
Those of us in the San Francisco Bay area who have bought a FasTrak pass to avoid toll booths and use electronic metering when crossing the bridges have saved time, but have lost our privacy. Professor Michael Froomkin posted about how lawyers in the SF Bay area have issued subpoenas to get FasTrak data (which tracks when a FasTrak car crosses a toll bridge). Professor Froomkin also notes that he had predicted this in his Stanford Law Review article The Death of Privacy?, 52 Stan L. Rev. 1461 (2000).
Another privacy post favorite is Professor Stephen Bainbridge's take on Google Street View and (the lack of) privacy. Well there has been a lot of talk about how Google Street View has been impacting privacy. Professor Bainbridge was so upset that he removed his Google widgets. Professor Bainbridge is also upset about a number of other things Google is or is not doing (no Memorial Day logo on a private company's home page on Memorial Day? part of his list as to why those who run Google are evil). Interestingly, Professor Bainbridge links to photo highlights of the privacy violations he complains about (I do not see pictures on a public street as privacy violations - so here are the links on Google Blogscoped and Laudontech). In any case even when I disagree with him, the ProfessorBainbridge.com blog is another blog I love to read. And Professor Bainbridge announced that he will be speaking about Sarbanes-Oxley at the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute in New York City on Tuesday June 19th at noon.
PodCasts
And Professor Bainbridge transitions us to the Lawyer 2 Lawyer show with the up from the dead J Craig Williams (Bob Amrbogi had the day off). Professor Bainbridge and Dr. Robert Klitzman were the panelists on the show about Andrew Speaker's potential liability (and morality) in traveling with drug resistant form of TB. You can get more information about the show here or subscribe to an RSS feed or listen to on iTunes.
Mary Minow noted on the Library Law Blog that there is a podcast on the Section 108 Study Group with member Peter Hirtle, the Intellectual Property Officer at the Cornell University Libraries on Public Knowledge's Website. (Section 108 of the Copyright Law covers copyright exceptions for libraries and archives). You can download the mp3 here. And Mary is now tracking the documents filed in a some Federal cases involving libraries (see case list) using a backend Justia helped set up for her.
WisBlawg's Bonnie Shucha had information on the CALI Survey of Law Student Use of Faculty Podcasts. CALI is working with law schools to enable professors to record their lectures. 75% of students rated podcasts value as Excellent or Above Average. Most students used a PC to listen to the podcasts.
Case Updates
There are number of blogs that cover new case decisions. Here are few of my favorites.
Professor Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog covers many of the breaking Internet and technology cases in the Federal and state courts. This week he covered a couple of cases brought buy Zango against PC Tools and Kaspersky (post 2 and post 3) (Adware maker Zango does not want PC Tools or Kaspersky security products to detect and keep Zango software from installing), as well as some jurisdictional issues in other cases. Of course Professor Goldman's blog has more than just case updates.
Michael Hassen's Class Action Defense Blog has great summaries of recent Federal and California class action cases. And although they did not have any posts this week, The Maryland Court Watcher Blog is a great blog for learning about new Maryland cases. Ron Miller also gives some interesting legal analysis of cases, along with trial and practice tips in his Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog. And Steven Merican's Illinois Appellate Lawyer Blog contains case summaries and analysis of many Illinois opinions, including a few this week.
Information Posts
There is no way I can match the excellent (organized and long :) Blawg Review #111 that Bill Gratsch did last week. Dennis Kennedy wrote a complementary post after reading Bill's Blawg Review, and thought it might be a good idea to reread the future of blogging conversation on betweenlawyers from a couple of years ago, and think about how it ties into the Bill's Blawg Review #111.
Covering the blawgosphere is one of the great features of Blawg's Blawg. Bill writes the Blawg.com Sunday Paper post, where he does a his own summary of posts from different blogs. You can read this week's Sunday Paper, covering everything from women's legal practice area choices to knowledge management and Avandia law suits, Patent policy and more... It is a nice discovery tool of new blogs and ideas that can be read in addition to Blawg Review. Check out the Sunday Paper archive.
Sabrina I. Pacifici BeSpacific blog constantly alerts readers to legal and government resources, as well as private Websites and other services and products of interest to lawyers. This is a blog I always check and follow.
Additional Posts of Interest
Ken Adams has a nice post on the dos and don'ts of contract drafting. I found it quite informative, as I am finalizing up a lease for new office space right now.
The Family Law Prof Blog has a post on the largest divorce award in history... $184 million for Maya Polsky.
Raul Jose at PaperStreet announced on their blog that they have launched the Umdoni and Vulamehlo HIV/AIDS Association Website. The association focuses on the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS on rural communities in the UGU district of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Profoessor Paul L. Caron wrote a post about a Pennsylvania Court ruling that a Google search is not sufficient for the government to sell property for back taxes. The court ruled they should have also tried the phone book.
Marc Andreessen (the founder of Ning... and a couple of other companies) came out with his own blog this week. And he started it out with a bang... he is switching to a Mac (there you go Larry).
There is also a post on productivity (no meetings), on hiring the best people and a three part article on the truth about VCs (parts 1, 2 and 3). A must read for startup folks. Read the VC posts with this article in Inc about Friendster. Marc's article gives good advice of when and when not to raise funds. And the Inc article gives an interesting view of how the VCs and professional startup managers play in the system while looking for the home run. Marc's blog is not exactly about law, although he says ex-lawyer VCs might be good at fixing parking tickets.
Law Dawg Blawg Dawg of the Week
Finally, this weeks Dawg of the Week on the Dawg Law Blawg is Dooley. He looks very happy and nice and is recovering from heart worm disease (he wants everyone to know that they should have their dogs checked for heart worms too - you can learn more from the American Heartworm Society). For us at Justia, the Dawg Law Blawg Dawg of the Week is the most important post of the week. It is the one we all look forward to!
Well there are some of the seemingly random blogs I read, with a few others posts thrown in, and few blogs left out (because they did not post this week or I ran out of time :) Keep on blawging, and please submit your own blawg to BlawgSearch.com (and Blawg.com :) if it is good :).
Peace,
Tim
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Justia BlawgSearch.com May 2007 Most Popular Blogs
Hi Friends,
Here are the most popular blogs on BlawgSearch.com for May 2007. Above the Law dominated nearly every day.
- A legal tabloid that provides news and gossip about the profession's colorful personalities and powerful institutions, as well as original commentary on breaking legal developments.
- News and information gateway to web based services provided by the New York State Supreme Court Criminal Term Library in New York County.
- Covers law and business and the business of law. By the Wall Street Journal.
- Covers Indiana law, as well as interesting developments in law and government. By Marcia Oddi.
- Covers fraud and forensic accounting, including tax fraud and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. By Tracy Coenen.
- Covers CAFA, class certification, employment law, FCRA, FDCPA and multidistrict litigation. Published by Michael Hassen of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP.
- Covers appellate litigation. By Howard J. Bashman.
- Covers mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds, venture capital and law. A Financial News Service of The New York Times.
- By University of Cincinnati Law Professor Paul L. Caron and Ron Jones.
- Features the synopses of opinions from Maryland courts, including the Court of Appeals and the Court of Special Appeals.
You can view the Top 200 Legal Blogs for May 2007 or view the most popular blogs in May for each of hundreds of categories. And you can view the main page of the rankings for May 2007 here. Ok... back to work :)
Peace,
Tim
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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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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