My article on Web 2.0

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The first of what was to be my two-part “Web Watch” series on Web 2.0 is posted at Law Technology News (free registration required). I say “what was to be” because I just got the OK from LTN Editor Monica Bay to extend it into a three-part series. So many useful and interesting…

College guide names the ‘New Ivies’

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The 2007 Kaplan/Newsweek “How to Get ito College Guide” was announced today, and introduces the “New Ivies” — colleges whose academic programs and numbers of top students “have fueled their rise in stature and favor … edging them to a competitive status rivaling the Ivy League.” The list covers undergraduate programs, not…

More on the widget

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My post yesterday about the JuristBlogger widget brought an e-mail this morning from company founder Josh Morgan. He writes:

“First, thank you for the feedback. User feedback always proves to be invaluable.

“We certainly do not want to mislead any users and I should have been more clear. To answer your question about

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Great headline re ATLA’s new name

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I wrote recently at LegalBlogWatch that ATLA’s new name, American Association for Justice, creates a cumbersome acronym. I wrote: “‘ATLA’ is a phonetically pleasing acronym that is easy to say and easy to remember. ‘AAJ’ sounds like the beginning of a sneeze.”

Now Walter Olson at Overlawyered has penned the headline I wish I’d…

Blawg directory comes with a widget

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I suspect I’m not the only blogger to have received an invitation from Josh Morgan to review his new directory of legal blogs, JuristBlogger. He is actively encouraging bloggers to add themselves to his directory, which now has more than 100 members. This is not the first such directory — there is Blawg.org…