Yesterday’s BloggerCon felt at times like a revival meeting, preaching blogs as the Internet’s second coming, if not humanity’s salvation. Yet I could not escape the irony of the place. Amid fiery talk of blogs cracking the matrix, of blogs as the second superpower, of blogs breaking down social, political and cultural barriers, the…

The latest issue is up of LLRX.com, taking on the question du jour, Will RSS replace e-mail? Fortunately, author Robin Good gets that out of the way right off: “E-mail is a two-way communication medium while RSS is only a distribution one. From that simple realization, you can immediately derive that e-mail is…

Lindsay Thompson is an old friend, a well-regarded “super lawyer” in Seattle, Wash., and one of the best writers I know. He’s not a blogger, although he should be, but he’s back after a many-year hiatus editing the Washington State Bar Association Bar News, and everyone should read his monthly editor’s…

Any blawgers going to BloggerCon this weekend? I am. I know Doug Simpson is. And Eugene Volokh and Glenn Reynolds of course. Anyone else? (Here’s the BloggerCon blogroll as of today.)

And just who is a “blawger”? Is it any blogger with a law degree? Or does it depend on…

On Monday, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office introduced TTABVue, a system that allows users to view images of documents relating to trademark disputes via the Internet. According to the official announcement, TTABVue includes images of most documents filed since January 2003, as well as some…

beSpacific reports that former Attorney General Edwin Meese, appearing yesterday on NBC’s Today show, said that “librarians are more interested in pushing pornography than fighting terrorism.” American Library Association President Carla Hayden disagreed.…

What are the best law firms at which to be an associate? The results are in of The American Lawyer’s 2003 Associates Survey. Topping the list: Houston’s Bracewell & Patterson.…

Operating on the premise that research on contracting is stymied by a lack of available contracts, the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute at the University of Missouri, Columbia, is working to create a digital collection of contracts and make them available over the Internet. The collection so far contains more than 10,000 contracts, drawn…

Through pure happenstance, two state-run “insane asylums” in Massachusetts were the backdrop for significant firsts in both my journalism and legal careers. As a journalism undergrad at UMass/Amherst in the early ’70s, the Daily Collegian assigned me to cover U.S. District Judge Joseph L. Tauro’s tour of Belchertown State School, a facility for people…

The American Bar Association’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section has unveiled e-Dicta, a portal for Internet law and insurance resources. This is a true mega-site, combining original content and links to other Web resources to create a one-of-a-kind resource. Among the many sections are ones that focus on law and insurance, Internet risk…

Did you know that QuickTopic allows discussions to have RSS feeds? Neither did I. I learned this from the QuickTopic seminar going on all this week via the Network-Lawyers discussion group. Stop by.…

All this week, the Network-Lawyers discussion list is conducting an experiment in online seminars by focusing the list’s discussion on a moderated panel about QuickTopic and its uses by legal professionals. The panel features QuickTopic founder Steve Yost. For complete details, go to the NetLs SeminarPrograms page.…