The Pew Internet & American Life Project this week released new data on blogs and blogging. The survey finds that 25 percent of Internet users and 16 percent of all U.S. adults say the read blogs.

Nine percent of Internet users say they have created blogs, the survey reported, which translates to…

Law.com today features my article, Blogging and the Bottom Line, which originally appeared in ALM’s Legal Tech newsletter. Here’s a sample:

“Pick an area of law — trademark, employment, appellate, whatever — tack “lawyer” onto it, and search the phrase on Google. Odds are, a legal blog will be among the top-ranking

What would you get if you combined craigslist apartment listings with Google Maps? The very cool Craigslist-GoogleMaps combo site. Offtopic? Hey, lawyers need housing too.…

I have a post about it on my other blog, Media Law.…

Five law-related sites are among the winners announced yesterday of the Webby Awards, which have been called the “Oscars of the Internet.” The Webby Awards honor Web sites in more than 60 categories selected by an international panel that includes musician David Bowie, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser, Oracle…

As a follow-up to my last post, I notice that Rory Perry’s Weblog has a recently updated list of other appellate courts providing webcasts of oral arguments. (He does not include the SJC.)…

I reported a month ago that the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, in cooperation with Suffolk University Law School, had begun the testing phase of broadcasting its oral arguments live over the Web. The webcasts move out of testing tomorrow, with live arguments scheduled to be webcast May 2, 3, 5…

The Wyoming State Bar has relaunched its Web site, with new features designed to better serve the public as well as its members. According to an announcement, the site’s navigation has been refined to make information easier to find. New features of the site include a lawyer referral service, the Wyoming…

Randy Roberts, founder of Law and Policy Institutions Guide, an index of legal resources on the Web, has added a new feature to the site, the Law and Policy Institutions Article Database. He describes it as an open-access, law article database that will provide free legal research and be governed by a strict…

Howard M. Friedman, professor of law and director of the Cybersecurities Law Institute at the University of Toledo, has launched Religion Clause, a blog that will track legal and political developments relating to freedom of religion and separation of church and state. The blog will feature news items on judicial, legislative and…

The ever-innovative Tim Stanley, CEO of Justia and fellow blogger, has launched Auto Recalls, a service that allows consumers to use RSS to track auto recalls as listed in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration database. The service provides RSS feeds allowing users to track all recalls or to narrow the…

I rarely use this blog as a soapbox, but, as a long-time member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, I cannot let David Giacalone’s post about it (bar & guild) go unanswered. I do not have the time to respond in as much detail as he has posted, but the picture he paints of…