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For those who subscribe to the WSJ, Big Internet Players Show New Interest in Weblogs notes how the expanding blogsphere is now attracting the interest of big name players, such as the global internet company Terra Lycos, which launched its Blog Builder tool last week. See also this related article on IDG.net.
InstaPundit, a weblog by University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds, has garnered significant recognition and praise from the mainstream press recently (one good example is here). The site is also a top destination for the blogging community. Reynolds offers opinions, facts, links, and interviews on a range of issues, including technology and the law, …
According to this posting, the Chinese government is blocking user access to blogs created with Blogspot. This source also provides links to a range of information concerning the ongoing, systematic campaign by the Chinese government to censor and restrict citizen access to the Web.
Appellate attorney Gary O’Connor, with the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C., e-mailed to announce his new blog, Statutory Construction Zone, the only one to focus on recent federal statutory-construction cases.
Sebastien Paquet, Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science and Operations Research department at Université de Montréal, has published a useful, well documented guide on what he calls “personal knowledge publishing,” commonly known as weblogs. Part one of the guide is here, and part two is here. Mr. Paquet reviews the history of weblogs, weblog applications, …
Bloggers may be well advised to read this Washington Post article on the potential legal ramifications of posting on work related issues, activities, products, services, etc. Blogger John Stanforth’s seemingly innocuous reference to a former work project on his personal weblog resulted in a cease and desist order from his old employer.
Blogwise is a project under development, with a topical and subject index that now includes 244 sites worldwide. There is an eclectic mix of links here, and the site promises to grow rapidly so check-in again to see what else in new and may be of interest.
Denise Howell, the legal blogging wizard over at Bag and Baggage, alerted me to this Wired article about the growing recognition and importance of blogs in the legal arena.
This article highlights the emerging trend toward the creation of legal blogs by law schools, courts and attorneys.
As a promotional vehicle for their book, “Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the Internet, 2nd ed.,” the authors have launched a blog with intermittent updates and topical links. Great idea!
Attorney Martin Schwimmer launched his Trademark Blog in May, 2002. Via the blog you may access his SchwimmerLegaltrademark metasearch database that facilitates searches for marks in the United States, Finland, WIPO (Madrid), Canada, the UK, Japan, Hungary EC (CTM), Brazil and France that contain a specific search string.
Rory Perry, Clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, is a pioneer who has transformed the dissemination of his court’s decisions via his summaries and direct links to cases on hisweblog.
