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Blogs v websites (with RSS)
Banging on about the benefits of blogs is not the sole preserve of Binary Law. Kevin O’Keefe, leading US champion of blogs for lawyers, does it constantly and persuasively. Today he succinctly summarises why large law firm blogs beat law firm websites with RSS feeds.
Campaign for law publishers’ RSS feeds
Steve Matthews of Stem shows “how useful RSS can be outside the personal reader” with LegalPubs.ca, “a one stop showcase of the products offered by Canadian legal publishers”. Using RSS technology, I have mixed the 10 latest items for each of the publishers … Each entry is passed along unmodified from the publisher’s original feed, […]
Feeding the five thousand (2)
Lo-fi librarian bemoans the lack of RSS feeds for new title information from the law publishers. Feeds for new titles and editions is such a no brainer, in my view everyone would benefit, there is less chance of a new text being overlooked and ordered late so the user is happy, the librarian saves time […]
Feed yourself
Nearly Legal points us to Feedity, a terrific widget that generates an RSS feed from any web page: Feedity has a proprietary data mining algorithm, which has been designed on the principles of self-learning agents. The native parser performs low-level content analysis, and it picks-up the most “prominent cluster” of hyperlinks. The renderer engine then […]
Official Documents feed
TSO are publishing a feed of new documents added to their Official Documents site. This includes the last 10 Command and HC Papers.
Really simple?
Thanks to lo-fi librarian for discovering Parliament’s secret RSS feeds. But, as she points out, subscribing to these is far from simple: 1) Nowhere are the feeds advertised. You first need to find a page that offers the option to “Subscribe to Email Alerts for this page”, eg Public Bills before Parliament. 2) On the […]
If CanLII can …
Steven Matthews at Slaw alerts us to the new CanLII beta site. As well as a smart new design and other features I have not not yet investigated, CanLII now provides RSS feeds for recently added/modified decisions for all courts. Well done guys. Let’s see the same from BAILII.
Feeding the five thousand (and more)
There’s a gathering clamour amongst law librarians for publishers to provide new book title information via RSS feeds. Connie Crosby’s call is echoed by lo-fi Librarian and James Mullan at LI Issues. This is not perhaps the most exciting type of current awareness information that might spring to the creative minds in the publishing houses, […]
A really simple marketing strategy
I wholeheartedly agree with Kevin O’Keefe at Lexblog that law firms should use RSS to get their (PR) information to their target audience. Kevin monitors a lot of RSS feeds for legally related keywords and key phrases and is shocked how little he receives from large law firms with very significant PR budgets. It’s not […]
A feeding frenzy
In a quest for more law-related RSS feeds I find that RICS now provides more than 750. That’s one for every category (eg Property), sub-category (eg Landlord and Tenant) and sub-sub category in its CMS. I’ve pointed out before that if you use a CMS to generate What’s New html pages you can, with a […]
2007: RSS will explode
I offer just this one prediction for 2007, as I believe it will eclipse all others. With Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 released and other big internet companies upgrading key information management products, 2007 will see RSS reading reach a mass audience and the potential for RSS to transform the information management industry will be realised. […]
We’ve only just begun
Steve Matthews of Vancouver Law Librarian Blog has produced a list of Top 10 Uses for RSS in Law Firms. These are all good examples of what RSS can be used for. But my contention is there is no Top 10; it’s horses for courses, and there are an awful lot of courses. RSS is […]
RSS and the law
Kevin O’Keefe recently posted a thought-provoking piece on the Law on using others’ RSS feeds, garnered from an article at EContent: RSS: Use, Lose, or Abuse?. The strict position (in US law, but little different here), as stated by Peter Strand, partner of the US law firm Holland & Knight, is that: In general, the […]
e-Books for lawyers
I have expended much of my creative effort these last few weeks finishing off a couple of new e-books with 5 CPD points a pop on the subject of the legal web, produced by me and Delia Venables and just published on infolaw. You’ll find full details there, but here’s a quick summary. Changing Practice […]
You’ve got it – flaunt it!
I’m surprised how many bloggers don’t link prominently to their site feed. Here are some possible reasons: Don’t know what a site feed is Here is a brief primer. Don’t have one Yes you do! All blogging services produce a site feed as standard. In Blogger you may need to activate it. Go to Settings […]
