Articles Posted in September, 2008

I’m honored to learn that the folks at Paralegal SLO blog must be regular readers of this blog. Shortly after my post yesterday, Another Rip-Off Blog, they removed the offending item. After several commenters pointed this out to me, I checked Google cache and found it still there, so I grabbed this screen cap.…

I continue to be amazed when I discover blogs purportedly written by legal professionals that have zero concept of copyright law or even common courtesy. Here is the latest. First, read this item that I posted yesterday morning to Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch, With the Web, Who Needs Mediation? Now, read this item posted…

I had a lot of feedback to my Aug. 28 post, Is the FindLaw Story Getting Distorted? My main point then was that we needed more facts before jumping to conclusions. Since then, more facts have come out, and a particularly good overview of the situation was a piece yesterday by Dow Jones Newswires…

Last week, the FBI arrested blogger Kevin Cogill (a/k/a Skwerl) of Culver City, Calif., on suspicion of violating a federal copyright law for posting nine tracks to his blog from the unreleased and much anticipated Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy. On this week’s legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss…

I was a guest this week on Law Technology Now, the podcast hosted by Monica Bay, editor-in-chief of Law Technology News. Our topic was social and professional networking for lawyers. We discussed my recent two-part column on social and professional networking sites (here and here) and my just-published first…

I’ve been tagged by Diane Levin with the 5 blogs & 5 blawgers meme. The idea is to list five great non-law blogs and then tag five law-bloggers to do the same. My five:

I am honored to have this blog appear today on Tom Mighell’s blog Inter Alia as one of the “Blawg of the Day Hall of Fame.” Tom notes that he first wrote about this blog on Dec. 5, 2002. Next thing you know, they’ll be retiring my number.…

I used to complain that PR professionals were blind to the blogosphere. Now that they’ve discovered it, there are some who could use a good set of blinders to keep them focused on their target audience. I’ll bet I wasn’t the only blogger to get this press release today:

STEVE REZAYAT TO ASCEND AS SPJA

After reading this TalkLeft post about Sarah Palin’s one Alaska Supreme Court appointment, I dug into the site of the Alaska Judicial Council and identified Palin’s 10 appointments to the state’s trial court bench. I also found out that today is the deadline for Palin to fill…

Don’t even think about it, one says to the other.
(Crane’s Beach, Ipswich, Mass.)…

Search giant Google is about to declare war on Internet Explorer and Firefox with the release of its own open-source browser, called Chrome. A beta version will be available tomorrow morning. For more details, read this PC Magazine piece or this comic book overview written by Chrome’s developers.…