Jun

23

LexMonitor

Filed Under Feeds, Law blogs

Congrats to LexBlog who have just launched LexMonitor, “a daily review of law blogs and journals highlighting prominent legal discussion as well as the lawyers and other professionals participating in this conversation.”
LexMonitor pulls feeds from nearly 2,000 sources and 5,000 authors, classifies them and serves them up, sliced and diced by subject category, author etc […]

By Nick Holmes, 23 June 2008

Jun

4

RSS - who profits?

Filed Under Feeds, Internet law

In response to my last post, Susan Cartier Liebel raises the question of the legalities of streaming others’ feeds without permission. She points to her post Shouldn’t You Have To Ask Permission If You Want To Take A Blog’s Feed For Your Profit? which has attracted considerable comment.
Of course your content is your copyright and […]

By Nick Holmes, 4 June 2008

Jun

3

RSS - endless possibilities … if only

Filed Under Feeds

When I said at the turn of the last year that RSS would explode in 2007, I don’t think I was being particularly prescient.
The RSS standard was then sufficiently well established that it was only a matter of time (and in internet time, that means months rather than years) before it took hold. Blogs were […]

By Nick Holmes, 3 June 2008

Feb

21

RSS Cruiser

Filed Under Feeds

RSS Cruiser is a legal info buff who currently spends some time on the web looking for law-related RSS feeds, encountering instead (blogs apart) classic Web 1.0 pages that are little use to man or beast in this gimme-what-I-want-now age. These Web 1.0 pages are known as “false documents” in that they look pretty and […]

By Nick Holmes, 21 February 2008

Feb

20

Cool legal info tools

Filed Under Cool tools, Feeds

A roundup of recent legal info tools that have come to my attention but not been blogged yet:
law.librarians is a group blog set up by lo-fi librarian:
A bit of an experiment really. The template for this blog is called Prologue and it lets you (once you are logged in) blog in a Twitter-like fashion. I […]

By Nick Holmes, 20 February 2008

Jan

9

Law pipes

Filed Under Feeds

Well, the cat’s out the bag already. Within hours John Bolch picked up on a FamilyLawPipe I created yesterday with Yahoo Pipes.
For those of you who need an introduction, Yahoo Pipes is a service from Yahoo which enables you to take inputs from RSS feeds and other XML etc files, manipulate them (eg sort, filter, […]

By Nick Holmes, 9 January 2008

Nov

2

Dear Publisher - we want RSS now!

Filed Under Law publishers, Feeds

Following is an open letter to all UK law publishers asking for RSS feeds to be provided for new title information. Publishers please respond! Librarians etc please give your support via comments and links to this post. Follow later developments via the Feeds category or on lo-fi librarian’s Facebook group.
Dear Publisher
You may be aware that […]

By Nick Holmes, 2 November 2007

Oct

30

Blogs v websites (with RSS)

Filed Under Feeds, Blogging

Banging on about the benefits of blogs is not the sole preserve of Binary Law. Kevin O’Keefe, leading US champion of blogs for lawyers, does it constantly and persuasively. Today he succinctly summarises why large law firm blogs beat law firm websites with RSS feeds.

By Nick Holmes, 30 October 2007

Oct

30

Campaign for law publishers’ RSS feeds

Filed Under Feeds

Steve Matthews of Stem shows “how useful RSS can be outside the personal reader” with LegalPubs.ca, “a one stop showcase of the products offered by Canadian legal publishers”.
Using RSS technology, I have mixed the 10 latest items for each of the publishers … Each entry is passed along unmodified from the publisher’s original feed, and […]

By Nick Holmes, 30 October 2007

Oct

24

Feeding the five thousand (2)

Filed Under Feeds

Lo-fi librarian bemoans the lack of RSS feeds for new title information from the law publishers.
Feeds for new titles and editions is such a no brainer, in my view everyone would benefit, there is less chance of a new text being overlooked and ordered late so the user is happy, the librarian saves time and […]

By Nick Holmes, 24 October 2007

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