Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

From TJ (via Loic) comes a link to a company that specializes in blogs just for lawyers. Great niche! I’m gonna peruse and see what concepts and ideas I can graft on to my existing marketing stuff. LexBlog: Legal Blog Design for Lawyers, Attorneys and Law Firm Internet

The worm finally turns. The search engine for Weblogs and syndication feeds on Monday will announce an expansion of its advertising program that will include the use of contextual advertising from Kanoodle Inc. in its feeds. Ad-free RSS was fun while it lasted.

The date is set for the third BloggerCon conference: November 6 @ Palo Alto, CA. I felt like a schlep for missing the BlogOn conference so I’m trying to scheme on how I can go to this one. Anyone have the hookup on flights from Chicago to Palo Alto?

I really do get a kick out of the recording industry’s self-flagellation and draconian tactics to lock down music encryption on any playable device. The tone of this article tries to put peer-to-peer filesharing and blogging on equal footing. In the business of buzz building, blogs are seen as a valuable viral marketing tool for […]

They’re cheap, easy to launch and don’t require HTML expertise. They make working in groups easier, are community-builders and can be more inclusive (and interesting!) than e-mail. They strengthen internal and external business relationships and improve productivity through interactive information exchange. They’re not intrusive, since users have to seek out a URL to read the […]

Another plus: writing a blog often is less time-consuming than trying to get a message across via interviews. “I can spend three hours talking about a topic, and the media will edit it to fit the three-minute segment or 500-word column. That’s far from the most efficient way to communicate,” Dallas Mavericks owner and soon-to-be […]

Red Herring comes up with four rules of blogging: (via Steven via Ross) Don’t shy away from controversy, welcome it. If controversy doesn’t come to you, stir it up. Point thoughtfully and often. Blogs should be focused and full of personality.

Stanford researcher Geoffrey Nunberg on blogs as a sort of global school lunchroom: The fact is that this is a genuinely new language of public discourse — and a paradoxical one. On the one hand, blogs are clearly a more democratic form of expression than anything the world of print has produced. But in some […]

CNET picks apart the hype in a collection of articles. Critics like to use words like vapid, boring, uninformed and lazy to describe why they don’t waste their time with blogs. But many others believe that blogs represent a true democratization of the First Amendment, warts and all. Instant interaction with readers, a diversity of […]

Dave Sifry sez: People trust The New York Times and Washington Post and link to them, but there are a huge number of people who are going outside the bounds of traditional media to these new media forms to get their information and, more importantly, to participate in the discussions around news and topics. This […]