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Jun
20
Dead blogs
Filed Under Blogging
Scott Greenfield has advice for bloggers who have decided to call it a day:
I ask you one thing. Take it down. Pull it. Remove it, once and for all. Do this for me. More importantly, do this for you.
For my purpose, you’re leaving your litter and cluttering up my blogosphere. Clean up after yourself so […]
By Nick Holmes, 20 June 2009
Feb
18
Your blog is your brand
Filed Under Blogging
In two recent posts Kevin O’Keefe follow-ups on why a law blog does not belong inside your law firm website, on which I’ve already commented.
He confirms his view, concerns about maintaining the law firm’s brand notwithstanding:
A brand for a good lawyer is not about design, collars, logo’s and the like. If lawyers known as authorities […]
By Nick Holmes, 18 February 2009
Jan
28
Pushing the boat out
Filed Under Blogging
There’s a lengthy discussion on Real Lawyers Have Blogs on Why a law blog does not belong inside your law firm website.
For me it boils down to this. Effective blogging is you - or a group including you - (as Kevin says) “providing valuable information, insight, and commentary to your target audience”, so don’t hide […]
By Nick Holmes, 28 January 2009
Nov
7
Blogging is normal - let’s move on
Filed Under Blogging
An article in this week’s Economist concludes:
Gone, in other words, is any sense that blogging as a technology is revolutionary, subversive or otherwise exalted, and this upsets some of its pioneers. Confirmed, however, is the idea that blogging is useful and versatile. In essence, it is a straightforward content-management system that posts updates in reverse-chronological […]
By Nick Holmes, 7 November 2008
Oct
24
Bilge pump
Filed Under Blogging
I’m not going to take the linkbait laid by Paul Boutin in Wired Magazine telling us to quit blogging because the blogosphere has been “flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge” and that time is “better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter”. This has got a lot of coverage … because it’s bilge.
I […]
By Nick Holmes, 24 October 2008
Aug
21
Alex Wade in Times Online looks at blawging: “only a handful of legal practitioners maintain blogs”.
No way! Sure only a handful of law firms maintain firm-branded blogs, but as we on Binary Law all know, maybe half the hundreds of UK blawgs out there are by practitioners; and let’s not forget to mention the academics, […]
By Nick Holmes, 21 August 2008
Jul
23
Blogs as a publishing platform
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Dave Winer, pioneer of blogging, RSS and other publishing standards, recently posted about the importance of blogs as a publishing platform:
Publishing keeps getting cheaper. That’s been the constant push, the practical application of Moore’s Law in my neck of the woods. I’ve always been a publishing guy, and that’s always been how I viewed computers, […]
By Nick Holmes, 23 July 2008
Jun
25
There has been a fair amount of comment on LexMonitor, Lexblog’s law blog aggregation service in the last few days since its soft launch.
Aside from straightforward reports of its launch and what it is, there have been some who have been quick to trash it - either the whole concept or because of current failings. […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 June 2008
Jun
13
Real lawyers should network
Filed Under Social networking, Blogging
Robert Ambrogi has written the first of two articles on social networking for lawyers for law.com’s Legal Technology News. In the first, Social Networking May Pay Off in the End he starts off by saying that “social networking web sites are just glorified directories”. However, he clearly doesn’t believe that - glorified Rolodexes maybe. […]
By Nick Holmes, 13 June 2008
May
12
Something no one else has
Filed Under Blogging
From an amusing piece by Jeffrey Goldberg on advice he received on becoming a blogger:
A blogger should only post, when he has “something new to add to something old,” and has “something that no one else has.” Do not “post for the sake of posting. Resist the temptation – and boy is it a temptation […]
By Nick Holmes, 12 May 2008