Would that they did, but not every news page on the Web has an RSS feed. If you want to be able to use your RSS reader to follow a feedless page, try FeedYes.com. Type in the URL of the page, and it creates an RSS feed for the page.
FeedYes claims to…
Maryland’s highest court is studying whether to broadcast its oral arguments online or through a cable outlet, something that would bring Maryland in line with appeals courts in 21 states that offer some recorded coverage, the Baltimore Sun reports. The idea remains in its early stages, Sally W. Rankin, spokeswoman for Maryland’s judiciary, said.…
The courtroom is a very serious place, but once in a while, it becomes a theater for human comedy as the search for justice unfolds. On this week’s Coast to Coast legal-affairs podcast, you’ll hear the classic humor of real-life courtroom stories from special guest, Judge Jerry Buchmeyer, a senior U.S. District Court…
An op-ed I wrote on behalf of the Massachuetts Newspaper Publishers Association calling for open meeting reform appears in today’s Boston Herald: No Democracy in the Dark.…
A federal judge in Orlando, frustrated by lawyers’ inability to resolve discovery matters, has ordered them to engage in what he called “a new form of alternative dispute resolution,” a game of rock, paper, scissors. The order, issued yesterday by U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell, directs the parties to meet for the game June 30…
Microsoft has scrapped plans to enable Office 2007 documents to be saved in Adobe’s proprietary PDF format, according to a report in eChannelLine. Microsoft likely made the move to avoid delay in the launch of Office 2007 if Adobe took Microsoft to court, the report says.
While this may be good news for Adobe,…
PR Newswire announced yesterday its addition of thousands of blogs to its two monitoring services, eWatch and US1 Media Monitoring, “allowing news release issuers to take the pulse of community-based journalists.” eWatch and US1 are Internet monitoring services that allow customers to watch what’s being said on blogs and online media outlets.…
If you obsess over hyphens and never split an infinitive, you may want to read American Journalism Review’s Style Wars in Cyberspace, about the growing number of copy editors writing blogs about grammar and style.…
Many thanks to Charisse Dengler for her very kind profile of me as a LawCrossing Law Star.…
Diane Levin of Online Guide to Mediation has completed her ambitious undertaking to create a Directory of Alternative Dispute Resolution Blogs. She lists blogs by categories, blogs by country, and even ADR-friendly blogs (of which I’m one).
What’s amazing to me is the growing number of ADR blogs. Last November, Diane,
The recent Bloggership conference drew attention to the role of blogs in legal scholarship. On this week’s legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast, we continue the discussion. Joining us to debate law professor blogs as legal scholarship are three highly regarded law professors and bloggers:…
Public relations dean Richard Edelman has the best statement I’ve ever read on how the PR business must adapt in order to survive and thrive in the new media environment. A key quote:
…“[W]e need to amend our work product, to get away from message triangles, hyped up press releases and controlling access to
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