I’ve written and presented about what a devil’s bargain it can be to reach for third-party solutions. In the earlier days of LexBlog, we were more prone to doing so. Over the past seven years or so, we’ve been much
Continue Reading Platform stability: removing third-party plugins
As LexBlog continues its growth and expansion in the realm of digital publishing and assisting lawyers with their legal blogs, it’s vital to bring the right people onto the team. The kind of people who know a thing or two
Continue Reading LexBlog is the perfect intersection of law and journalism for new intern, Alec Downing
Jayne Reardon, Executive Director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commision on Professionalism, interviewed me a couple weeks ago on the topic of legal blogging.
The interview was inspiring (more than she knows) as we talked of blogging as
Continue Reading Coaching Lawyers To Blog, a Gift Revived
3 years ago I had no idea I was standing at a life altering decision. Either I started full-time as a support rep for a very large video game producer based out of Japan (You know the one) or take
Continue Reading Celebrating 3 years at LexBlog
Around this time last year we took stock of the number of sites we had slated to launch. We had a significant backlog of nearly 200 blogs, microsites and journals all waiting to get over the finish line. Some had
Continue Reading Operating at a higher level—improving the onboarding process
While browsing a website on a mobile device has come a long, long way, a new trend in business priorities is leading us all down the wrong path. Try viewing a website for a large commercial service or digital brand,
Continue Reading Appwalls and their apps are destructive to the open web.
I’m spending the next year of my life traveling Europe and I’ve been trying to figure out a good way to sprinkle in some of my travels on this blog that is—well, about books and publishing, not travel.
Seems the
Continue Reading Reading “Beautiful World, Where Are You” on the New York subway
I’ve always been a huge proponent of physical copies—whether that’s of books or newspapers or magazines. But recently—especially spurred by the pandemic and its effects on the industry—I’ve been reconsidering that stance.
Some of my strongholds on print copies originate
Continue Reading Print versus digital publishing—each have their time and place
While the service has had a handful of improvements since Amazon bought it in 2014, the app has remained mostly the same. I write that but it’s worth noting that shortly after Amazon bought comiXology they took away the ability
Continue Reading An overdue update coming to the comiXology app.
You’ve seen the post here and elsewhere—from time to time—lamenting the future while remembering the past. Specifically the early days of the World Wide Web. Super specifically towards the days when blogs were bountiful and mostly contained posts and comment
Continue Reading Finding the next “era of a new field.”
