Robert Ambrogi

Is a Massachusetts lawyer, writer and media consultant. He also writes the blog Media Law and cohosts the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer

New blawg-only search tool

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A new search engine for legal blogs was introduced in beta today and will be officially unveiled in the next day or two. Called BlawgSearch, it was created by Tim Stanley and his team at Justia. BlawgSearch currently indexes some 600 blawgs, with “many more” to be added, Stanley said. The emphasis so…

Legal spam of the day

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Great news. An e-mail I received today informs me that this blog has been selected for the “Feaured law blog Award” (their spelling, not mine) on a site called BreakingLegalNews.com. Funny thing is, the award-giver apparently selected my blog without knowing anything about it, because in order to accept, I have to tell them…

Can you read this RSS feed?

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I am having RSS problems since switching last night to the “upgraded” Blogger beta. I can read my feed using FeedDemon, but I’ve had trouble with other RSS readers. IE 7 will not display the feed at all and returns an error message. Bloglines won’t update to posts added subsequent to the upgrade.

So,…

Blogger beta: RSS and other woes

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If you subscribe to my RSS feed, please excuse the flood of items this morning. I switched last night to Blogger Beta, and apparently the first time publishing with the new system resends the most recent 25 posts. Much to my surprise, this included drafts not ready for publication — in fact, they were…

The lawyer’s holiday humor CD

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Over at LawTunes, lawyer Lawrence Savell has just released his third CD of humorous holiday music with a legal theme. The latest CD, “Merry Lexmas From the Lawtunes,” join Savell’s two earlier compilations, “Legal Holidaze” and “The Lawyer’s Holiday Humor Album.” From the announcement:

The 15 songs on the new holiday CD continue

Lawyers face right to blog

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From today’s Chicago Tribune:

“The marketing potential, whether explicit or not, of law-related blogs–or ‘blawgs’ as some attorneys have come to call their online journals–is raising some tricky ethical questions for the profession, which regulates lawyer advertising.

“Those issues have come to the forefront in recent months, after ethics monitors in Kentucky found