Blogging
Blogosphere quite small shock
Technorati is a wonderful resource for bloggers. If you have not yet discovered it or do not use it much, take the time now to investigate what it offers. It tracks and indexes currently more than 51 million blogs and gives you several ways to discover new blogs and to follow the stats and conversation […]
Holiday reading?
Probably not in there with your Dan Browns, but here’s a some webby books I’ve read recently or plan to (listed oldest first). You could do worse than feed your brain with one of them this Summer. Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Paperback) by Lawrence Lessig (August 2000) A Brief History of the Future: […]
Net networking to net work
In a post questioning the value of the the traditional website, Kevin O’Keefe neatly summarises how to network effectively on the net: Law firms and professional service firms network to get work. To network, you need to listen, engage in the discussion, and pass on information others may use in referencing you. … Find the […]
Charon QC – now on the right track
Charon QC has just moved his blog to a new home on WordPress. He asks me what is this mysterious thing called atrackback? To I quote from the currentWikipedia article: TrackBack is a mechanism for communication between blogs: if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another […]
A half tonne of bloggers
I’ve just chanced upon the new Guardian site Comment is Free as it has hit the ether. Must be brand new as Goog has only one result for it. Comment is free is a major expansion of Guardian comment and analysis on the web. It is a collective group blog, bringing together regular columnists from […]
Centralised or distributed (law) publishing?
Steve Butler at UKBlawgers argues for “a central source of legal information which is available to all at a very low price” and suggests a sort of grand law wiki as the solution. Now the wiki is certainly a neat collaborative publishing tool and has many advantages over more conventional publishing systems and many valid […]
e-Newsletters – RIP
I have for a long time believed that the web would spell the end of the newsletter. For the printed newsletter the end will be a long time coming. Print will not die anytime soon and the printed newsletter, smart and portable, will continue to be popular until the current generation, weaned on the internet, […]
TimesOnline Law – twice
Contributors to The Times have recently started blogging in numbers. TheTimesOnline Law Weblog is authored by Edward Fennell, Gary Slapper, Mark Stephens, Alex Wade and friends, while the Law section continues to offer legal news and comment in parallel. Such a dichotomy is not uncommon on news sites at present. The blogs allow less formal […]
Is blogging good for business?
First published May 2006 in in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. The so-called blogosphere (the world of blogs) now occupies the position that the web itself did 10 years ago. Hands up those who, in 1996, did not appreciate the significance of the web? So now with blogs – you can’t afford to ignore them. […]
Corporate blogging – should you, shouldn’t you?
Great editorial on the risks of corporate blogging by Struan Robertson, Editor of OUT-LAW.com – the best new media law service around. After a quick sentence about the benefits of corporate blogging he points out its risks: the risk of defamation unhappy bloggers generating negative PR copyright and trade mark infringement (particularly easy) a joke […]
More on the (marketing) value of blogs
Two comments in a recent Times article on law firm blogging support my view that the blogosphere occupies the position that the web itself did 10 years ago. Hands up those who, in 1996, did not appreciate the significance of the web as a marketing tool? If your firm doesn’t have at least one lawyer […]
What can law blogging achieve?
Rupert White writes a thoughtful piece on law blogging in the Law Gazette article Logging on to blogging. Having interviewed several leading UK law bloggers, he finds a “deeply personal approach” to what blogging can achieve as a business and marketing tool. Seeing blogs as [a route to market] is … to misread their value […]
Lawyers at No. 4 in the blogosphere
An interesting piece in the New York Times reports: “A survey conducted by Blogads.com, which administers online advertising on blog sites, and completed voluntarily by 30,000 blog visitors last spring, found that 5.1 percent of the people reading the blogs were lawyers or judges, putting that group fourth behind computer professionals, students and retirees. The […]
Law blogging feature
The ABA Law Practice Management Section leads its July/August issue with five feature articles on law blogging: It’s Not Your Father’s Web Site: Lawyers in the Blogosphere (how blogs differ from traditional websites) Ethics and Lawyer Blogs How to Start Your Own Weblog And Make the Most of It The Future of Legal Blogging (a […]
Bloggers at Work
All organisations need to consider the fact that many of their employees will blog and some of them will refer to their workplace in their blogs. If an appropriate company policy is not in place on this issue, the boundaries of what is and what is not acceptable practice will not be clear and disputes […]
