Tip of the hat to Kevin O’Keefe for the pointer to The RSS Cases Blog, a new blog devoted to RSS as a marketing tool. It covers how to use and promote RSS feeds, how to build and maintain them, and how to measure their success. The blog is written by Raj Kumar…

Happy one-year blog birthday to one of my favorite blogs, Online Guide to Mediation, and blogger/mediator extraordinaire Diane Levin.…

From Texas comes word of an innovative program to help meet the mounting legal needs of low-income victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Lend-A-Lawyer, organized by Texas Appleseed and the Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation and supported by the law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, which will underwrite…

ALM announced today the launch of an electronic newsletter by its ALM Research division devoted to law firm and legal market research. The bimonthly ALM Research Newsline will feature updates on data, market studies and rankings of interest to law firm and legal market researchers. According to the announcement, free subscriptions are available…

This week on the legal news podcast Coast to Coast, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I host a panel of esteemed pundits for Legal Predictions for 2006. Our guest prognosticators on the program are:…

Shortly after I wrote earlier today about Podzinger, saying that I could not not find my own podcast, Coast to Coast, there, I heard from a company representative who pointed out that, in his own search, he was able to find it.…

I wrote last April about Podscope, the first full-text search engine for podcasts. Now there is another, Podzinger, launched by BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Mass.

Podzinger is impressive for its features. Search results include text highlights of the portions of the audio that match your search. Click on any word in the…

Writer Wendy Davis explores some answers to this question in her article, How Web-Savvy Are You?, republished from Small Firm Business.

Her article includes a mention of Coast to Coast, the weekly legal news podcast I cohost along with J. Craig Williams. Here’s an excerpt:

“As with blogs, podcasting can

I just finished reading Blawg Review #38, in which Evan Schaeffer, having been handed the Blawg Review podium, delivers a studied lecture in how to be a better blogger, in the form of 10 New Year’s resolutions for bloggers. I encourage you to read it.…

The Wall Street Journal Online this week launched a law page and a law blog, both intended to provide news and analysis on events and trends important to the legal market. You will have to be a subscriber to access the law page, but the law blog, titled — you guessed it —

LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell today unveiled an enhanced version of its Martindale.com lawyer directory site that includes a tool allowing side-by-side comparisons of lawyers’ credentials. The tool allows users to compare up to four law firms or lawyers based upon criteria such as areas of practice, size of firm, office locations, educational background and attorney bar…

I have written before about blogs as evidence. Here is an Editor & Publisher article about how the blogs of a family involved in a North Carolina murder case are raising ethical issues for news reporters and editors.

Excerpt:

“With so much written about blogging in the past year, it’s amazing that just