Jul

2

Friendfeed for lawyers

Filed Under Feeds

Some time ago I set up a Friendfeed account and plugged in a couple of my feeds. I did not pay it any further attention until recently I noticed a number of my band of followers were subscribing to my Friendfeed.
So I checked out why. Via the Twitterverse I was pointed to this great post […]

By Nick Holmes, 2 July 2009

May

12

Rivers of …

Filed Under Twitter, Feeds

 Rest in Peace, RSS - flame bait from Steve Gillmor.
It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore. The River of News has become the East River of news, which means it’s not worth swimming in if you get my drift.
Twitter is a sucker’s game that only […]

By Nick Holmes, 12 May 2009

Nov

7

Way to go Law Society Gazette

Filed Under Feeds, Law sites

Must have been asleep or too busy these last few months to notice that the Law Society Gazette has morphed into a wonderful site:
Online the Gazette is as radically changed [as the print edition], with all sections of the magazine represented. Most importantly, each area of Gazette coverage is now easily accessible - we have […]

By Nick Holmes, 7 November 2008

Oct

29

exCiting Times

Filed Under Feeds

I’ve mentioned Feedity before - a natty feed generator which will scrape a web page and deliver a feed based on the linked list(s) it finds there. It usually returns some unwanted links too, but you can then tweek the feed to deliver just the main items.
Since last I wrote, Feedity has moved to a […]

By Nick Holmes, 29 October 2008

Sep

18

Catching up

Filed Under SEO, Social networking, Feeds

Been away on protracted hols. Quite possible to have kept posting of course, but did not have the inclination. Had I done so, here’s a few things I might have posted about:
Martindale-Hubbell Connected
In July Robert Ambroggi took an exclusive first look. It’s now out in public beta. Will this fly or crash?
The rise of Twitter […]

By Nick Holmes, 18 September 2008

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

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