Thanks to Ernie Svenson for the nice mention today. His weblog Ernie the Attorney is a great daily read, with posts on law and technology, weblogging, and current events.
Blogs and Blogging
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By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging, Web and Online Culture
I have known for some time that weblogs were powerful, and today there’s proof — weblogs can change the law. Howard Bashman, author and host of How Appealing, noted an error in a Fifth Circuit opinion. The author of the opinion, Justice Jerry Smith, also happens to be a reader of the weblog;…
Update on backlinking
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging, Web and Online Culture
Here’s the full text of the document on backlinking I mentioned below.
Weblogging and the Future of Legal Research
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging, Legal Research Sites
Denise Howell reported yesterday on a new article from MIT’s Technology Review(for now, you’ll have to subscribe to read the whole article, or pay $4.50 for a single copy) about the concept of backlinking. Trackback, an innovation of web publishing company Movable Type, allows sites to communicate about related resources. Here’s how…
Voting Law Blawg
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Alabama attorney Edward Still posts commentary daily on “campaign finance, redistricting, and politicians in legal trouble” at VoteLaw.
My rant for the day…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Perhaps the longest-standing piece of weblog etiquette is crediting links found via another weblog….when you are new, it is a respectful way to announce your presence to the weblog community. Once you have gained an audience, it is a service to your readers, who will be pleased by a pointer to another site that discusses…
Now HERE’S a blog you don’t see every day…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Kevin Barbieaux, a homeless person, maintains his Homeless Guy weblog from public libraries in and around the Nashville, Tennessee area. A unique and interesting weblog perspective.
It’s a Jungle Out There for Law Students…
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Alice (I assume that’s her name, anyway), the law student and author of the weblog a mad tea-party, discusses a new online magazine for law students, JD Jungle.
Bag and Baggage
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Bag and Baggage, a website I mentioned in my August 18 issue of the Internet Legal Research Weekly, is the weblog of Denise Howell, an appellate lawyer at a California law firm. Denise frequently updates her site with legal news and other great information from the blogosphere. Check it out.
Check out LibraryStuff
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging, Legal Research Sites
Thanks to Steven Cohen at Library Stuff for the nice mention today. If you haven’t visited his site before, you should — he has lots of great information for librarians and legal types alike. And for those of you who get into that sort of thing, he also has an RSS/XML feed.