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Direct-to-Consumers Captivates Legal Publishing

By Kevin

April 19, 2021

Until the last ten or fifteen years, legal publishing has been the exclusive domain of large traditional publishers. WestLaw (later Thomson Reuters), Reed Elsevier (owner of LexisNexis), Wolters Kluwer, Bloomberg/BNA, ALM (f/k/a American Lawyer Media) and many others. In addition to fulltime writers and editors, such publishers considered niche focused contributions from practicing lawyers and academics. Such contributors did not own their content, the publisher to which the submission was made would own the content…

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Reuters Drops a Paywall. Will Lawyers Pay $34.99 a Month to Get What Was Free Legal News?

By Kevin

April 16, 2021

After failing in its first attempt to expand beyond its wire service roots with its consumer facing, Reuters Next, Reuters announced this week that it’s making its Reuters.com a destination site for “business professionals” behind a paywall. Until now, Reuters.com cost $0 to reach directly or via Google or a RSS feed. The new cost is $34.99 a month for a deeper level of coverage for industry verticals including healthcare, autos, sustainable business, and, of…

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What Would I do? I Enjoy This Stuff.

By Kevin

April 15, 2021

The New York Times’ Robin Pogrebin asked ninety-two year old, famed architect Frank Gehry, given his age and accomplishments, had he considered taking a break or scaling back. He dismissed the idea. “What would I do? I enjoy this stuff.” With a sense of pride, Gehry added he “has now reached a point in his career where he has the luxury of focusing on what matters to him most: projects that promote social justice.” In…

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Blogging For Myself, More Than Others

By Kevin

April 14, 2021

Rather than blog for someone else – to share information on an often loud and a crowded Internet, I blog for myself. Much like digital media consultant, speaker and long time blogger, Euan Semple describes it. ”…[I]t has always been true that I write as much, if not more, for myself as for anyone who reads these posts. Writing helps me notice what I notice, it helps me understand what matters to me, and helps…

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Law Blog Posts As Statements and Footnotes in Wikipedia

By Kevin

April 13, 2021

Searching Wikipedia for backgroud information on a B Corporation, a certification of “social and environmental performance” for a for profit companies, I came across a footnote from a statement that such status bring an annul fee. The footnote was to a blog published by the law firm, Bryan Cave. Got me thinking. Wikipedia could be an excellent place for posts from your blog to be cited. Wikipedia entries are replete with footnotes documenting the source…

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Substack and Legal Publishing

By Kevin

April 12, 2021

Can the new email newsletter publishing platform, Substack make inroads into the legal publishing arena? When the New York Time’s Ben Smith reports this morning that Danny Lavery, the publisher of a blog and newsletter, just signed a two year, $430,000 contract with Substack and that his wife, Grace Lavery, a professor at UC-Berkeley, who edits another publication, signed on for a $125,000 advance, you have to wonder. Substack’s model is to disrupt the model…

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Blog Rolls Are Back on Legal Blogs

By Kevin

April 10, 2021

File this under “it’s about damn time,” LexBlog VP, Greg Storey, writes about Medium’s decision to bring back a very old feature of all blogs (legal blogs included), the blog roll. From Ev Williams, the CEO of Medium, If you’re on the desktop web, you can see it in the left-hand sidebar of ev.medium.com. If you go to your profile, you can turn yours on. It lists the people and/or publications you follow that have…

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Friends

By Kevin

April 9, 2021

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I looked up the word “Friends” on Google expecting to get a Wikipedia or dictionary definition of the word. All I got for at least a page of search results was about a television show, Friends. I never saw it. Maybe I missed something. I was motivated to look up “Friends” after seeing all the comments and expressions of love I received on Facebook from friends this week after I wished Happy Birthday to Jill.…

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Big Hairy Audacious Goal for Legal Blogs and LexBlog

By Kevin

April 6, 2021

Ask anyone who talks to me, and you’ll hear that I am anxious to establish a big hairy audacious goal for LexBlog. LexBlog started with the goal of bringing blogs to the law as a way for lawyers to development business in a manner superior to advertising, websites and SEO. We’d charged $200 a month for a professional turnkey blog solution as a business model. Most everyone thought us nuts. Lawyers would never use blogs.…

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A Good Sign

By Kevin

April 5, 2021

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I picked up a good sign for tonight’s National Championship Game this morning. Apple has a photo widget for the iPhone that displays photos or a video series of photos, with accompanying music in a random fashion. I am finding that that the widget, which displays the photos or video on your home screen, runs in more than a random fashion. Apple seems to know what the day represents, what I am going to be…

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Blogs, Media and Technology

Readers Choice

Blog Authors

Direct-to-Consumers Captivates Legal Publishing

Reuters Drops a Paywall. Will Lawyers Pay $34.99 a Month to Get What Was Free Legal News?

What Would I do? I Enjoy This Stuff.

Blogging For Myself, More Than Others

Law Blog Posts As Statements and Footnotes in Wikipedia

Substack and Legal Publishing

Blog Rolls Are Back on Legal Blogs

Friends

Big Hairy Audacious Goal for Legal Blogs and LexBlog

A Good Sign

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