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
:: The Core, Slowhand by Eric Clapton
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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
:: Popular, High/Low by Nada Surf
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Pacific Northwest Meeting with LexBlog's Kevin O'Keefe
Hi Friends,
No trip to the great Northwest can take place without a meeting with the blog man himself, Lexblog CEO Kevin O'Keefe. Well this time we met up in Bellingham right in the middle of Dirty Dan Days in Fairhaven.
KOK found a parking space and then walked the walk to the Bellingham Fairhaven Boardwalk. And here are a few more pictures.
Kevin and me ...
... Kevin and Cicely ... and ...
A guy we met who makes frogs and birds out of shells he finds on the beach. Some of his frogs were in the movie "The Ring".
We had Coffee & Diet Pepsi at Village Books and then headed out to dinner at a nice restaurant. We talked a lot of blogging and little free case law. It will be a great future :) Next time I hope to check out LexBlog's new Seattle Offices!
Peace,
Tim
:: Even Flow, Ten by Pearl Jam
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Tech Executive Blogs to Avoid Irrelevance
In H.P. Tries to Create Printers That Love the Web, the New York Times reported on this comment by Vyomesh I. Joshi, the Executive Vice President of HP's Imaging and Printing Group:
"Reluctantly, I am doing blogs," he told the employees at the companywide coffee talk. He said he needed to understand how they work. "Otherwise, we will be irrelevant."
So, how might blogs make HP irrelevant?
Blogs represent a new publishing model featuring high scalability and low distribution costs. In the "old" days, if your law firm wanted to send a periodic update to inform your clients about new legal developments, you had to print out the update, stuff it into an envelope, affix a mailing label to the envelope, run the envelope through the postage meter, and leave it for a postal worker to pick-up. This process is manageable if you have a handful of clients, but becomes increasingly more time-consuming as your base of clients expands.
Additionally, if you try to add some polish to your client updates, you might have to send your text and photos to a graphic designer, who will cobble the various articles and images together to create a professional-looking layout. You may also incur additional costs by having a printing company print the client updates on glossy paper.
But, blogs are different. Blogs represent a paperless, inkless, and postageless paradigm for communicating with your clients. You incur no additional distribution costs as more clients subscribe to your blog. Your articles can be as long as you want or as short as you want. You don't have to add an extra 100 words to fill some white space, or edit back an article to fit an arbitrary limit. You don't have to wait 2 months for the next issue to be mailed out or have your edits finalized in advance to meet the lead time of the designer or printer. Furthermore, your clients can easily share your updates with their colleagues. No more passing a paper newsletter around the office with a routing slip!
Best of all, lawyers that blog can reach new clients that are searching for expert commentary relevant to their legal needs. Blogs may someday make HP's present products irrelevant as law firms print less on their HP printers and use less HP toner, HP ink cartridges and HP paper. But, HP's pain is your gain. Law firms that embrace blogging may discover new marketing successes as they win over new clients and garner more work from existing ones.
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Bay Area Blawgers Get-Together, March 28, 6-8 pm at the Santa Clara Law School High Tech Law Institute
Hi Friends,
Santa Clara Law Professor Eric Goldman and the High Tech Law Institute are having a Bay Area Blawgers Round Table and discussion this Wednesday night (March 28). It is open to all, but you need to RSVP to Eric by email.
There will be a lot of great technology law bloggers there (and Mary Minow -- this weeks BlawgSearch.com's featured Blawger :). You can get CLE credit and it is... free (except for parking :)
You can read more about the meeting and participants on Eric's Blog. Eric also has a post about some potential discussion topics here.
Here is the roundtable information.
When: March 28, 6-8 pm
Where: Wiegand Room, Arts & Sciences Building, Santa Clara University. Directions to campus.
Cost: Free. Parking is available for $5
CLE: This event qualifies for 1 hour of general CLE credit. Santa Clara University School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider.
How: Please RSVP to Eric Goldman.
Peace,
Tim
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Top Ten Questions to Ask Your Future Blog Provider
Are you thinking about launching your own blog? Maybe you came across the idea from reading or hearing about it in the media, or when you encountered another attorney's blog. Well, if you call up some blog providers, or if they call you up, here are some questions you may wish to ask them.
- Why should I pay for a blog when I can get one for free?
Blogging doesn't have to be an expensive proposition. In fact, Blogger and WordPress provide free blogs. Jottings by an Employer's Lawyer is an example of an employment law blog running on the Blogger platform. Ask what added value, features or services that your future blog provider can offer. - What blogging software will you be using to manage my blog?
Six Apart and WordPress are two highly customizable blogging solutions. The people that work on the software really focus on upgrading and improving their product. Is it possible that a blog provider has an in-house product that is more reliable, feature-rich and scalable than WordPress or Six Apart's TypePad or MovableType Publishing Platform? - How does your blogging software compare to Six Apart's TypePad or MovableType?
If your blog provider is offering an in-house blogging solution, ask them to compare the feature set against TypePad or MovableType. Maybe your blog provider has never heard of MovableType. Or, maybe they are looking up MovableType right after they read this blog post. - Does your blogging software automatically generate RSS feeds?
Although people can view your blog using their standard web browser, many prefer to subscribe to a blog's RSS feed so that they do not have to visit a blog constantly to check for updates. Instead, the blog reader will periodically check all the blogs that the user has subscribed to and notify the user whenever a blog has been updated. The practical implication is that instead of manually checking a few blogs a day, someone can subscribe to fifty or more blogs and just view those that have been updated. - Can I tag my blog posts?
Tagging means associating a blog post with one or more categories. If you are fortunate to have hundreds of posts on your blog, a reader may want to focus on posts of a particular topic. For example, tagging lets them read just the posts that discuss will contests on an estate planning blog. - Can you show me some blogs that your company has designed?
Two things to look for. Do their clients post regularly? Do they write in a style that is appealing to you? See what types of training and feedback the blog provider offers its clients. - Does anyone in your company blog?
When you ask this question, you shouldn't hear an awkward silence coming from the other end of the telephone. The response will tell you whether the provider itself has adopted blogs as a marketing and knowledge management tool or whether this is really just another product for them to sell. - Can I read a blog by one of your company's executives?
If the response to the prior question was awkward, this one may be a real conversation stopper. Blogging is all about sharing knowledge, opinions and insights with others. Some readers may be clients. Some may become clients. And, some will not. But, in the mean time, you are developing your online expertise in your particular niche and enriching the community at large. If blogging carries all the great benefits that the salesperson is telling you, why aren't the executives themselves blogging? By the way, Tim Stanley of Justia, Kevin O'Keefe of LexBlog, and Matt Mullenweg of WordPress all blog. - What blogging software do they use?
It would be pretty awkward if a blog provider uses one blogging solution for their internal blogs, but sells another solution to outsiders. The other way to ask the question is, "Do you eat your own cooking?" - How do i know if a blog is appropriate for me?
Not everone has time to blog. Not everyone possesses the writing skills to blog. Not everyone enjoys blogging. Blogging takes time. Time that you can spend working on a paying case. Time that you can spend with family and friends. If someone is selling you a blog, ask them what makes a successful blogger, and see if you meet their criteria.
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Does Your Blawg Have a Pick-Up Line?
Blogs are fascinating windows into the personalities of their authors. Some carry matter-of-fact names, such as the Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog. No big mystery what will be discussed on that blog. And, not surprisingly, many Law Professor Blogs follow that line of nomenclature.
However, other law bloggers are wittier or more adventurous. Try to guess what topics the following blawgs cover.
- Build on This
- Death and Taxes
- Discourse.net
- Engaging Conflicts
- Friable Thoughts
- How Appealing
- Legal Juice
- Meeting the Sin Laws
- Mouse Print
- Reasonable Basis
Of course, opting for a catchier blawg name has its pitfalls. People who stumble upon your law blog may not "get it." That's your chance to make or break their first impression. A short pick-up line explaining your blog will let your guest know that they are indeed at the right place. Let them know they are welcome and what matters of interest they should expect to find on your blog.
The Justia BlawgSearch is a great way to introduce your law blog to new readers. If we haven't already included your blawg, please suggest it to us.
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New Justia Law Review Blog covering Legal Research and News
Hi Friends,
We have just started the Justia Law Review Blog, a new blog which will be focused on legal research, information and news. It will allow Ken, me and the Justia Team to provide information and commentary on a broad range of legal issues. The new Justia Law Review Blog will be a nice editorial addition to the Justia legal portal site. We look forward to posting our non-marketing ideas on the blog... and hopefully it will be pretty good. Now back to work while listening to the Colts - Patriots game :)
Peace - Tim
:: Scarlet Begonias, Grateful Dead From the Mars Hotel by the Grateful
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Bloggers and Fair Use and... PerezHilton.com - from KCET
Hi Friends,
Everybody loves Hollywood and their protection of IP. And KCET, the public television station in Los Angeles (in Hollywood) is covering the latest IP action... PerezHilton.com's unauthorized usage of X17 Online's celebrity photos (and other companies' photos as well, X17 are just the ones who are suing PerezHilton's Mario Lavandeira).
You can watch a video on this The Fight Over Celebrity Photos on KCET's Life & Time's blog (and I added my prediction - X17 wins, PerezHilton loses). And you can read more about fair use on the Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center.
On a side note, I used to volunteer at KCET, setting up a catalogue database of all their old videos from the 70s and 80s. Every morning for months I would drive down from my rent controlled apartment in Santa Monica to Hollywood for a few hours of work before going to my real job. I watched hundreds of hours of KCET news and education programs in fast motion, writing down the scenes and the time of the scene was in the tape. That way when a producer needed a video of environmental pollution they could easily find it. There were a lot of videos from the 1970's when movie director Taylor Hackford was the news reporter. And I watched a lot of Huell Howser Videologs (Huell would stop by our room in the studio between assignments - he was just like he is in the videos - super nice guy). You can subscribe to a Video PodCast of Huell's California's Gold series on his California's Gold Website, and check out the California Gold's Google Earth Overlay and KCET's California Gold interactive map of Los Angeles with short video segments.
What does this have to do with marketing? Well I am promoting the KCET and their video and blog post... thus the marketing aspect :) And it is an interesting case for bloggers... as Nolo's Rich Stim wrote... there is a "Fifth" Fair Use Factor: Are You Good or Bad?.
Check out KCET's Video, Blog Post and Commentary
Peace - Tim
Original Huell image can be found on Jeff Caffrey's Santa Monica College Media Center page.
:: California's Gold with Huell Howser
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BlawgSearch.com & Blawgs.fm - New Legal Blog Search Tools from Justia
Hi Friends,
We have released the first beta version of BlawgSearch.com for searching legal blogs... and our first alpha version of Blawgs.fm for searching legal podcasts and blog posts with audio or video media files attached.
BlawgSearch.com
Blawg Search. BlawgSearch.com allows legal researchers to search over a 1,000 editorially selected legal blogs. The database is updated throughout the day with new posts. BlawgSearch.com allows you to sort your search results by relevance or posting date, and you can subscribe to RSS feeds of your searches, to continuously track newly updated posts that match your search terms.
On the search front, we will be adding some advanced search functionality, as well as some other core functionality and features... but more on those when they are ready.
Blawg Directory. We also provide a directory of blawgs by subject category and locality (state and country) focus, as well links to other Blawg directories like Blawg.com's Blawg directory. This may be helpful in finding other legal blogs on a topic you are interested in. We are still fixing up the categories somewhat (Antitrust will be its own category soon :), but it is a pretty good start.
Blawg Rankings. Everyone loves rankings (except Michigan Football). We rank the blogs on a variety of factors, including how often a blog is clicked on in a search result or directory listing and the last post date (blogs with more recent posts are valued higher). Clicks from different parts of the site (eg top ranked blawgs on the home page, search results, blawg directory pages) are attributed different values. And there are some click spam protections built in. The overall system algorithm is still being fine tuned somewhat, but it seems to be working pretty well.
We still have 1000s of more legal blogs to check out in the weeks ahead. If you have or know of a legal subject matter blog you think should be included, please click here and fill out a form to suggest the blog. We are very focused of adding more blogs into the directory.
Blawgs.fm
While working on BlawgSearch.com, we noticed that we could tell from the RSS feeds when there were audio or video files. So we added some small icons to indicate there was a multimedia file, and then added a flash player so people could quickly listen to audio of a particular post right there in the search results. But on BlawgSearch.com, the audio or video files would only show up once in awhile in the search results*.
So we made Blawgs.fm, a new search interface for searching blawg posts with multimedia files. Blawgs.fm searches all of the posts that are included in BlawgSearch.com, but just returns those posts that have multimedia files attached to them.
In addition we have started a legal podcast/vidcast directory categorized by subject and locality, and a ranking of the podcasts (like BlawgSearch.com). The podcast directory only includes blogs that are either focused on providing multimedia content (like Coast to Coast) or primarily text based but have a substantial number of multimedia posts (like Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground). If we were able to find a special podcast feed (like the Stark & Stark's New Jersey Law Blog's Podcast feed) we included that podcast feed in addition to the general blog feed.
But again, not all of the search results will be from blogs that are in this podcast directory. The search will have results from blogs that might not be podcast blogs, but have a multimedia post or two.
You can listen to audio files for a particular post using the flash player if you wish. What is nice about this, is that you can do a search and see what individual podcast posts have matching descriptions. Then you could either visit the original podcast page or do a quick listen using the flash player before deciding to subscribe to the full podcast. I have found it useful in finding new podcasts, and I will bet others will too.And like the BlawgSearch.com, we are also looking for more legal Podcasts to add into the directory. So if you have a legal Podcast you like us to add please click here on the Podcast and fill out the Podcast suggestion form.
Ok... that is it for now. We will announce some more features in the near future...
Peace - Tim
* We will include the media search only functionality into the advanced search options of BlawgSearch.com as well, but we thought it would be nice if there was site that just searched multimedia files from the get-go, and thus Blawgs.FM is being launched as a separate site.
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How to Become a Better Blogger
The most difficult part of starting a blog is the writing process. Sure, you may be drafting contracts, client letters, research memos and court briefs all the time, but is that writing style suitable for a blog? Probably not. And, it's not just lawyers that have difficulty blogging. Even newspaper journalists, who should be familiar with writing articles on a daily basis targeted to a general audience, can stumble when trying to transition from a print columnist to an online blogger. Take the case of Mike Cassidy's Loose Ends. Mike Cassidy is a journalist at the San Jose Mercury News. Recently, he appealed to tech blogger Robert Scoble for help. Scoble obliges with 13 tips to Help A San Jose Mercury News Columnist Blog. Very good advice, and useful for lawyer bloggers as well.
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Better Blawgging — Details Matter
When discussing successful case outcomes on a blawg, lawyers may have some difficulty striking the proper balance. If you get overly detailed and technical, you'll weigh down your blog post. You also don't want to disclose client confidences or breach a confidentiality clause to a settlement agreement.
However, details matter for the simple reason that when people encounter problems and are searching for an attorney, they want someone with experience. In particular, clients want attorneys with experience handling similar problems and the more similar the better. If you are a personal injury lawyer, here are a few ways to communicate the breadth of your legal experience:
- Defendants. When discussing a case, mention the defendant, if permissible. If a client has experienced a serious problem with a particular business, hospital or organization, chances are that another person will too. Let potential clients know you have experience handling cases against such defendants.
- Injury. Mention the specific injury sustained by your clients, as well as the circumstances surrounding their injury. Before the Internet arrived, patients had a pretty difficult time researching a diagnosis given by a doctor. Now, if you hear shoulder dystocia, you head straight to Google to see what are the symptoms, how it is caused, and how it can be treated.
- Location. Mention the location where an accident occurred. Your client is not the first person (and certainly won't be the last one either) to be injured on the Marsh Road offramp to Highway 101.
By providing enough detail, you can help future clients find you.
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The Tail Wagging the Blawg
Amazon recently named Chris Anderson's The Long Tail as the best business book of 2006. Perhaps, there's no easier way to illustrate the long tail than to prepare a long tail graph yourself. And, it isn't that difficult either!
First, sign in to your Google Analytics account. Google Analytics is a great (and free!) program for analyzing visitor traffic to your law firm's website or blawg. Google Analytics can tell you which pages your visitors are viewing the most, which websites referred them, as well as what search terms they used to reach your website.
After you have signed in, click on the View Report link for the website you are interested in. This should bring up a hierarchical menu similar to the one you see on the right. At first, some of the menu items will be hidden. Only after you have selected certain options will the collapsed sub-menus be expanded. Click on Content Optimization under All Reports. Then, click on the Content Performance, followed by the Top Content link. This will take you to a table that displays the most viewed pages during the past seven days.
However, to discern trends, you may want to work with a larger data set. So, if you click on a month within the Date Range, all the days of the month will be selected. Likewise, if you click on 2006, then the entire year will be selected. Within the Top Content table, Google Analytics displays the top 10 pages by default. There's a drop-down menu where you can ask it to display the top 10, 25, 50, 100 and 500 pages.
If you select 500, Google Analytics will retrieve the top 500 most viewed pages from your website. You can also export the data into a CSV format that Microsoft Excel can then open. To do this, click on the Excel icon by Export.
When you open the CSV spreadsheet, the columns are Content, Uniq. Views, Pageviews, Avg Time, % Exit and $ Index. Just make a graph of the second column (Uniq. Views) and you will should see something similar to the graph below.
So, this graph shows that a few pages receive a lot of page views. It also shows the long tail, which are those numerous pages that only receive a few page views each. Now, that you understand the long tail, let's focus on the premise of the book. Basically, The Long Tail posits that for online businesses that can stock unlimited books (Amazon) or rent unlimited movies (Netflix), the sum of all sales from those numerous products with low turnover can exceed the sum of all sales from those few products with high turnover. Google Analytics also illustrates this in their Top Content pie chart. The one below shows that the top 10 pages for a website added up to 27% of all page views, but the remaining pages added up to 73% of all page views.
So, what does the long tail have to do with law firm blawgs? Well, law firm blawgs are similar to Amazon and Netflix in the sense that they can carry a seemingly infinite amount of inventory. In the case of blawgs, that would be an inventory of legal information. Better yet, blogging software is uniquely designed to allow authors to post little bites of information easily and take advantage of the long tail. For example, you might write a few paragraphs covering your insight on a particular recent event, law, case or court opinion. By blogging a few times a week, you will soon amass a compendium of information that spans across hundreds of web pages. Also, don't be reticient about blogging on some esoteric legal topic. Some posts might receive a lot of page views, and some only a few. But, with enough breadth, you will be able to hit both ends of the curve.
And, if you do have a blawg, be sure to submit it to the Justia Blawg Search for inclusion. It's a great way to get discovered.
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Blawg.org relaunches as Blawg.com with a Great New Look
Blawg.org, the leading blawg directory, has been totally redesigned from the ground up with a great new look, and a new domain Blawg.com. 
Blawg.com's Bill Gratsch says more is to come, but already one can see that this is a major (and great looking ) update.
Peace - Tim
:: Wonder, Tigerlily by Natalie Merchant
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New Trial Lawyer Resource Center
Hi Friends,
Dave Swanner and gang, with some LexBlog help, have setup a great looking new Trial Lawyer Resource Center. It is a group blog, with original content aimed at helping trial lawyers with litigation strategies and their legal practice.
Others who are participating include: Gary Gober, Jay Harris, John Day, John Romano, Karen Shelton, Mark Zamora, Matt Garretson, Randall Scarlett, Fredrick Kuykendall, Ron Miller, Todd O'Malley and Thomas Kline.
I look forward to checking the Trial Lawyer Resource Center out in the weeks and years ahead. Great idea!
Peace - Tim
:: Get Together, The Best of The Youngbloods by the Youngbloods
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Michigan 47 Notre Dame 21 --- Justia, LexBlog schools compete on the gridiron --- Michigan Wins
Hi Friends,
Michigan beat Notre Dame... which means that a certain son who lives in the Seattle area under the roof of LexBlog's Notre Dame grad CEO Kevin O'Keefe should start considering the University of Michigan as the football snow school of choice. I am sure KOK will get a few (more) hours of child labor to help his kid out in paying off his debt (to society :) Now enjoy some nice photos...
Now JP -- what about those Michigan sky boxes???
Peace - Tim
This post is listed under blogs, because LexBlog and Justia both make blogs for law firms.
:: The Victors, Touchdown U.S.A. by the University of Michigan Band
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Six Apart Acquires Rojo
Hi Friends,
Six Apart has acquired Rojo. You can read the press release or news on the Six Apart blog or the Rojo blog. 
Chris Alden, the CEO of Rojo, will be taking over as the Executive VP of the MovableType division. In any case, Rojo has been one of the services that I have used for tracking blogs, and I really really hope that this works out well both for the Rojo services and the MovableType software. It sounds like the new release of Rojo will not be stalled out by the acquisition. TechCrunch has some details on the acquisition, including an estimated deal terms (you will need to click to read the post :).
Peace - Tim
And there you go, my first post concerning Six Apart's MovableType done before LexBlog's KOK. And we changed our home page... more on that when there is more that. Okay seriously I have to get back to work. Really really... to make something rojo hot.
:: China Cat Sunflower, Aoxomoxoa by the Grateful Dead
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Visiting the Northwest - Seattle & Bellingham
Hi Friends,
I went up to the Pacific Northwest to visit some friends and scout out the tech landscape. Seattle was sunny as always as....
... I took the ferry with LexBlog's Kevin O'Keefe to visit Bainbridge Island.
KOK kicked back on his porch with the dogs as he explained the greatness of the Seattle area, while his son tried to explain Notre Dame's strugles with Georgia Tech (we will all be "watching" the Michigan v. Notre Dame Game on September 16).
I also visited Bellingham, Washington to check out its technology scene.
It sort of reminded me of a combination of Berkeley and Ann Arbor. Most of the produce seemed anti-tech, as it was all organic. One of the Stanford FogDog guys is starting a business Yapta.com in Bellingham.
Both places were very nice, and sunny and warm... at least until October :)
Peace - Tim
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Editors, Reporters, Conventional Media -> New Jobs Bloggers
Hi Friends,
Stacy and I went to the The Stanford Daily alumni dinner tonight following another Stanford loss to Cal (congrats RS). Thanks to Elna Tymes, whose son Adrian was one of the programmers at FindLaw, did a great job putting together the dinner.
As for the dinner talks, after going through the editorial and business metrics at the paper (happy to report that things are looking good :), former Knight Ridder columnist, book author and blogger Joanne Jacobs gave a talk on... blogs.
While I have heard speeches about blogs many many times, it was interesting to hear first hand from a former media connected writer about her experiences and thoughts. Especially since she left the Mercury News to work on her book, freelance and blog.
- A few selected notes from her talk:
- Joanne saw blogs as being great for the readers and the bloggers. She especially liked the speed in which bloggers comment on the events of the day (and mentioned The Volokh Conspiracy and Instapundit as examples). She noted how lawyer are very active bloggers
- Joanne thought that not being part of the conventional media did not necessarily make bloggers less trustworthy. But that without an formalized media brand, it did require individual bloggers to build up the trust over time.
- Joanne talked a lot about the blogging community and how they help each other. This is similar to the statements made by Ernie the Attorney in last week's BlawgThink.
- Joanne said that blogs were a great place for someone to show or develop their expertise (see any of the many posts by Kevin O'Keefe on this :).
- She did not see blogging as a business model in itself, at least right now. While a few bloggers seemed to be able to make money, most hardly made anything (eg. click on the donation button, Google ad or Amazon referrals are not making a normal print writer/editor's salary).
- Joanne felt that her blog and the blogosphere was a great place to promote her book: Our School : The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea, and the School That Beat the Odds (I have used Joanne's Amazon code should you click on that link and buy the book :) She also asked the editors from some of the nations large papers that were there to review her book... like the Wall Street Journal did... here is the book review by the Wall Street Journal.
As we watch Knight Ridder try to explore of strategic alternatives it will be interesting to see not just what happens to the papers, but also to the reporters and editors. I myself no longer subscribe to any print newspapers (I used to subscribe to the SJ Merc, WSJ and NY Times, now my only subscriptions are RSS feeds) and supplement my main news sites (CNN.com, NYTimes.com, WSJ.com, SJMercury.com with Google RSS alerts on different keyword phrases and the headlines from a 20 or so blogs of various editor/writer/colunists (in particular Bob Ambrogi, whose LawSites turned 3 on Saturday and Dan Gillmor) and about 150 or so information blogs (BeSpacific, ResourceShelf etc... etc...).
My guess is that most of the current Stanford Daily students are going to have a tougher time finding media jobs than their predecessors unless they are really good bloggers AND can find a business model... OR law school OR maybe Yahoo! (Read Dan Gilmor's post on Wall Street and Journalists and... Yahoo!).
Peace - Tim
:: Pocahontas, Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young
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BlawgThink - Thursday & Friday November 11 & 12 - Blogs and SEO Talk
Hi Friends,
I am going to be speaking on Search Engine Optimization and Blogs at LexThink's upcoming BlawgThink conference this Friday and Saturday (November 11 & 12).
LexThink is run by Chief Thinking Officer Matthew Homann (who also has the [non]billable hour blog) and Futurist and Director of Innovation Dennis Kennedy (and you can read his blog here).
You can find information on the schedule and speakers on the BlawgThink Pages. And you can get updates on the LexThink Blog.
Here is a partial list of the speakers: Jeff Beard, David Bowerman, Matt Buchanan, Henry Copeland, Ben Cowgill, Dennis Crouch, Steve Dembo, Carolyn Elefant, Fred Faulkner Peter Flashner, Michael Herman, Matt Homann, Will Hornsby, Brandy Karl, Dennis Kennedy, Cathy Kirkman, Rick Klau, Patrick Lamb, Jim McGee, Diane Murley, Steve Nipper, Kevin O'Keefe, Sabrina Pacifici, Evan Schaeffer, Bonnie Shucha, Doug Sorocco, Tim Stanley (me), Ernest Svenson and Jack Vinson.
And here is a list of the sponsors of BlawgThink, with links to their Web sites: Intel, NetCentrics, MindJet, LegalZoom, CasePost, Box.net and Gyronix
I am going to give a brief overview of search engine optimization (SEO) and why blogs do well (good post headlines used in the title tags, easy to get linked up, well formed xhtml....) and then walk though what you can do to really optimize your blog - but you will have to attend the talk :)
Peace - Tim
:: Rock Me on the Water by Jackson Browne
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New Google Blog Search and Finding a Lawyer Blawg with Google, MSN and Yahoo!
Searching for a law-oriented web log (or "blog") is not a straight-forward process. The standard search engines offer a number of different ways to locate a blog, which we will compare with the new Google Blog Search that came out today.
To show you how to track down a blog, let's continue from yesterday's post on the Supreme Court. I'll run a number of searches for blogs on the Supreme Court and compare the results.
Google / Yahoo! / MSN - Supreme Court Blog
First, I ran a search for supreme court blog on Google, Yahoo! and MSN. The two top contenders among the search results are SCOTUSblog and Supreme Court Blog.
I've summarized the results in the table below.
| Web Site | Google Rank | Yahoo! Rank | MSN Rank |
| SCOTUSblog | #1, #5, #6 | #2, #7 | #7, #10 |
| Supreme Court Blog | #2, #3 | #1, #4 | #1, #2 |
SCOTUSblog ranked higher on Google, while Supreme Court Blog ranked higher on Yahoo! and MSN. However, when reviewing the two web sites, I noticed that the posts on SCOTUSblog, which is sponsored by Goldstein & Howe, P.C., were more up-to-date and relevant. SCOTUSblog is currently covering the nomination hearings of Chief Justice nominee John Roberts, Jr.
Supreme Court Blog, on the other hand, includes only 2 posts from 2005, both on Supreme Court figurines and bobbleheads. The blog does include more substantive commentary, but these are from October of 2004. Overall, not quite befitting its #1 ranking on Yahoo! and MSN.
Google - RSS Search
Next, I ran a search for supreme court but limited the results to rss feeds by adding filetype:rss to the search term. The theory behind this is that blogs often offer an rss feed of their posts. However, the results from this search were not particularly fruitful.
MSN - Feed Search
MSN also offers a feed search. To specify a feed search, I added feed: before my search term (e.g., feed:"supreme court"). As you can see below, MSN returned a mix of news feeds and blog feeds.
Finally, I tested Google's recently unveiled Google Blog Search.
I ran a search for supreme court using Google Blog Search. As you can see from these results, Google Blog Search returns blog postings that match your search terms. You can also sort these results by relevance and by date. So, if you are looking for a blog on a particular topic, stick with the regular Google search. If you are looking for a blog posting on a particular topic, try out the new Google Blog Search.
A few notes about the Google Blog Search from Tim
- You can find Google Blog Search at http://blogsearch.google.com or for those who would like a blogger look and feel the url is: http://search.blogger.com/
- There is a Google Blog Search FAQ here: http://www.google.com/help/about_blogsearch.html
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Google Blog Search only searches the feeds, not the sites
If you want your full post indexed, you need to setup an RSS 2.0 or ATOM feed with the full post text (this is relatively easy to do, although many Blawgers are not currently doing it)// -
You can Ping your Blog post to Google using current services
If you want Google Blog Search to index your blog make sure to ping weblogs.com or blo.gs. You can set this up in your software, or
you can do it manually (or by way of a bookmark that is reloaded) at http://pingomatic.com/
and note: you can also automatically use pingomatic.com, which pings a bunch of sites, by adding in http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ as a URL to ping in your blog software - Not Just Blogs are Indexed Google Blog Search actually indexes more than blogs, it also indexes RSS and ATOM feeds from news papers and any other site that is updated regularly (eg non-blogs like http://auto-recalls.justia.com :).
- Read more information about Google's Google Blog Search at Search Engine Watch or the Google Blog, or just do a Google Blog Search on "Google Blog Search".
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Lawyer Blogs and Law Firm Blogs: United States Supreme Court Focus
Last year, I paid a visit to the United States Supreme Court during the "off season." Oral arguments had already been concluded for the term. There weren't too many people around—at least in the public areas—except for tourists and busloads of children on field trips. It was a quiet summer.
This year, the Supreme Court has taken a different path with the conditional resignation of Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the subsequent passing of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. With a historic opportunity to re-shape the nation's highest court, President Bush has been receiving plenty of unsolicited advice from both sides of the aisle. Now that the Senate confirmation hearings for John Roberts, Jr. are underway, those seeking their daily fix of US Supreme Court news and commentary can visit the following blogs.
- ACSBlog. From the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.
- Balkinization. Commentary on law, poitics and culture. By Professor Jack M. Balkin of Yale Law School.
- Campaign for the Supreme Court. Blog on the politics and strategy of the appointment battle. From the Washington Post.
- How Appealing. Covers appellate litigation. From Legal Affairs.
- Inside Scoop. Supreme Court blog. A project of the Alliance for Justice.
- Law Profesor Blogs. Includes blogs on criminal law, media law and more.
- Legal Theory Blog. Covers recent scholarship in jurisprudence, law and philosophy, law and economic theory, and theoretical work in substantive areas. By Professor Lawrence Solum of the University of San Diego Law School.
- LiveCurrent. Commentary on the Supreme Court. From the Los Angeles Times.
- The Oyez Supreme Court Podcast. Features podcasts of US Supreme Court oral arguments.
- SCOTUSblog. Features live coverage of the Roberts confirmation hearings as well as regular commentary on the Supreme Court. From Goldstein & Howe, P.C.
- Volokh Conspiracy. By Professor Eugene Volokh of UCLA School of Law.
- Underneath Their Robes. Features news, gossip and commentary on the federal judiciary.
- U.S. Supreme Court Blog. Offers summaries and commentaries on Supreme Court cases.
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Submit your BlawgCast to Apple's iTunes Music Store PodCast Section
Hi Friends,
As I noted in my previous post on PodCasts, Apple was planning to add PodCast support into the iTunes Music Store. Well that day has arrived! And you can now submit your own PodCasts to the Apple iTunes Music Store, where others can find them for play on iTunes or their iPod.
And with a PodCast leader like iPodder Adam Curry onboard... well you know this is a winner for Apple.
Here is the PodCast section of the Apple iTunes Music Store. And in the middle of the page you will see a graphic "Publish a Podcast" to click on to add your own PodCast feed.
You then just click on the link, submit your feed and... if Apple okays it, your feed will be on the Apple iTunes Music Store and available for iTunes users everywhere!!! Click here to submit your PodCast feed to the iTunes Store now. (for those who want more tech details, here is a PDF file with technical RSS 2.0 specifications from Apple).
I would strongly encourage everyone who has a PodCast/BlawgCast to submit it to the Apple Music store, as this will likely become a major distribution means for PodCasts.
Here are some related links to the Apple Music Store Pod Cast Announcement
- Apple Press Release on PodCasting and the iTunes Music Store
- MacRummors.com - which aggregates the higher quality rumors and confirmed Apple news
- MacSurfer - has all of the headlines from the various Apple news and rumor sites
- CNET on iTunes Music Store PodCasting (and color iPods)
And of course Mac users should join the MacLawyers Yahoo! Group and visit their Web site. And for those who need a break from finding their law firm 360 degree view from space - all of the standard sized iPods now have color screens, so listen in color :)
Peace - Tim
:: Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
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Legal Marketing Blogs' Headlines - the Latest Legal Marketing Blog Posts Updated Throughout the Day
Hi Friends,
The Justia gang has listed a set of the legal marketing blogs (and few other selected blogs that periodically mention legal marketing) we like to read and has set up a site of links to their most recent posts (updated throughout the day and night). The URL is
The idea is to give you a quick overview of today's legal marketing news as determined by the experts, maybe find a post or blog that interests you that you have not seen, and then a link to the blog so you can subscribe to that blog directly (also note - this is a first version, and we will be improving this site over time).
We list the latest headlines of the different blogs ordered by date/time. Each headline simply links to a blog's post. If you are in the archive and want to be on the top of the list... simply make a new blog post.
We list the blogs currently in the index on the side with links to the blogs themselves.
Lawyer Marketing Blogs
Here are the legal marketing blogs we are starting this site out with...
- Bruce Allen's Marketing Catalyst
- Larry Bodine's Professional Marketing Blog
- HTMLawyer's Micah Buchdahl's The Marketing Attorney Blog
- Ken Chan & Tim Stanley with Justia's Legal SEO Blog
- Lawyers Court's Chris Costa's Legal Search Marketing
- Philip Franckel's Lawyer Advertising Blog
- Sanestorm Marketing's Andy Havens' Legal Marketing Blog
- Tom Kane's Legal Marketing Blog
- Mark Merenda - Smart Blog
- Morningstar Multimedia - Law Firm Marketing
- LexBlog's Kevin O'Keefe Legal Marketing with Lawyer Blogs Blog
- Ed Poll- Lawbiz Blog
If there are additional legal marketing blogs out there that we should link to, please email us and we will add the RSS feed. We are looking for blogs that are focused on providing marketing news, information and commentary, not just the marketing of a firm's products or services (although having periodic marketing, like our FindLaw FirmSite to Justia Web Site post is okay with us :).
Selected Legal Technology, Marketing and Puppy Blogs
We have added a few legal technology and information blogs (the four we read everyday - beSpacific, The Common Scold, LawSites and the [non]billable hour ). There are many more we could add, but we did not want to overwhelm the list with non-marketing posts.
We have the official search engine blogs (Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN and Yahoo!), and one general marketing blog (Seth Godin's Blog - because we like his books). In reality we actually read many more general marketing and SEO blogs, but again to add them all would dominate the listings, and you would miss out on the "legal" marketing uniqueness of the more focused blogs.
If you have a general marketing, legal technology or legal information blog that has legal marketing information and you add/have a legal marketing category, then we would be happy to add or help you set up a category specific feed (easy to do in Movabletype or WordPress, harder to do with Blogger and TypePad. For Blogger and TypePad, see Richard Akerman Science Library Pad post on using Blogdigger for category based RSS feeds).
Finally we have included my puppy Little Sheba the Hug Pug's blog, simply because... I like my dog. And once again, the URL for the list of legal blog marketing headlines is http://blogs.justia.org/
Peace - Tim
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PodCasts - Directories for Legal PodCasts (BlawgCasts), Software, How-to and... Adam Curry
Hi Friends,
I was working on setting up some PodCasts to be added to Stark & Stark's Web site by way of their LexBlog produced New Jersey Law Blog and Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog and thought I would share some of the basic information (search Google on PodCasting for more information :).
WHAT IS PODCASTING First, let's go to the Wikipedia for a definition of Podcasting. In short:
Podcasting is a way of publishing sound files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new audio files automatically. Podcasting is distinct from other types of audio content delivery because it uses the RSS 2.0 file format. see Wikipedia.org for more information.
Basically you upload an audio or media file somewhere on the net, and then place a link (enclosure tag) to it in your RSS file. The RSS file also has the description, file size and other info needed to help to help the user to download the file.
Here is an actual Legal PodCast!
Click the PodCast icon to subscribe to Oyez - US Supreme Court Multimedia Resources Website's PodCast.
PROMOTING YOUR PODCASTS - PODCAST DIRECTORIES Now to promote your PodCast... Let's start with Adam Curry - Mac User - who has set up a directory I use called iPodder.org, where you can have your RSS 2.0 feed listed in the PodCast Directory... and it is just one of many PodCast directories to find and submit your PodCast.
You should submit your Legal PodCasts to:
Justia's BlawgSearch.com's PodCast Lsistings
Blawg.com's list of legal PodCasts
BlawgCast - yes finally a site totally focused on legal PodCasts! Let them know about your Pod/BlawgCast!
Digitial PodCast - Politics & Government listings
PodCast.net Crime & Law PodCast listings
PodCastDirectory.com - put in the key words "law" and "legal"
PodCast Alley - put in the key words "law" and "legal"
Podcasting News - Law Listings
I am sure there are more, email me and I will edit/update this post :)
Yahoo! has some additional Media RSS markup that they would like audio people to use to help position it within the Yahoo! their Video and upcoming Audio Search.
Now to the basics...
PODCAST SOFTWARE
There are many free software applications for finding and listening to PodCasts. (I use iPodder) although Steve Jobs announced that iTunes will soon support PodCasts. Here is some more software that works with the iPodder.org PodCast directory.
YOUR PODCAST - WHERE TO UPLOAD YOUR AUDIO FILE
Audio files can be large, and they can lead to large bandwidth charges... but there is a nice non-evil place where you can upload your files for free and not pay for bandwidth...
OurMedia.org provides free storage for audio, video, text... anything, provided you own it and do not mind it being publicly disseminated. In any case, it is the best place to upload your audio files if you do not want to be worried about bandwidth and storage space.
HOW TO CREATE YOUR RSS 2.0 PODCAST FEED
Rather than repeat the steps, I am just going to give the links :)
MovableType - Brandon Fuller has written a MovableType plug-in MT-Enclosures with instructions on how to set it up.
WordPress - just upgrade to WordPress 1.5 and then read this post...
TypePad - Just use FeedBurner's SmartCast. Read about here on the FeedBurner forums on SmartCast. Rick Klau works there - reason enough for law firms to use FeedBurner's SmartCast.
Blogger - here are some how to instructions or use FeedBurner's SmartCast.
And there are a number of services that help make it easier as well... such as AudioBlog.com.
ODDS AND ENDS
There are number of PodCasting Meetup groups. You can find some of them on Podcasting.Meetup.com.
Read these instructions to get your MP3 PodCast onto BitTorrent (read Andy Haven's post on BitTorrent and the future of Law Firm downloadable media files...
You can turn your PodCast into a CLE course - as noted by Bob Ambrogi in writing about our local Santa Clara Bar Association's CLE PodCasts.
And although Monica listens to XM Radio that Rocks with Baseball... Adam Curry's satellite radio show called PodShow is on Sirius.
Okay... there are another 8,450,000 pages in Google with the word PodCast... most of which have interesting PodCasts and/or PodCast technology details, like what recording equipment to use, how to make an mp3 file and more...
Peace - Tim
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Google Blogger - Free Online Marketing for Law Firms Tool #2
Hi Friends,
So what is a blog, why should you blog, and where is the best place to get a free blog. Here are the answers:
Q: What is a blog?
A: A blog is a Web site that is made up of posts that are arranged chronologically, and are archived by date and category. [ Blogger Blog Definition | LexBlog's legal blog definition ]
Q: Why should you blog?
A: Blogging gives law firms an easy way to highlight news items and publish commentary on what is happening in the legal world. In addition, most blogs have news RSS and ATOM feeds that summarize their authors posts and are aggregated in new news feed search engines like Feedster and Technorati. News journalists are using these blog search engines to find sources and information for their stories (and stories are breaking on the blogs, such as the CBS news documents, and the Whitehouse reporter with the false name and... :). As many news stories concern law, blogs are a great way to get in front of reporters. Many established law firms are doing it, such as Preston Gates & Ellis and Stark & Stark.
Q: Where is the best place to get a free blog?
A: Google's Blogger is the best place to get a free blog. There are many other places for free blogs (eg LiveJournal - for teens with style or MSN Spaces - for teens without style), but Blogger has the cleanest interface, and is very easy to use.
You enter in your contact information, choose a subdomain, choose a template, and you are ready to post. You can take a tour of Blogger here.
Blogger allows you to FTP (or more ideally sFTP) your blog on your own servers or you can use their hosting service blogspot.com.
Blogger has a lot of information about the service online. Rather than repeat their tutorials and instructions, here are the links to information that will help you set up your own Blogger Blog.
- Blogger Tutorial
- Blogger Help - FAQs and support
- Blogger's Blog (Blogger Knowledge)
- About.com's Blogger articles and resources
- Molly Holzschlag has an online video on learning Blogger (part of it is online for free, the full video requires a subscription or you can purchase the CD ROM of the video for $29.95).
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