Blogs: An All Purpose Tool for Web Management, Publishing and Research

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Blogs An All Purpose Tool for Web Management,
Publishing and Research

• June Liebert
• CIO and Lecturer
• The University of Texas School of Law
• Kristina L. Niedringhaus
• Electronic Services Librarian
• Texas Wesleyan Law Library

CALI Conference for Law School Computing, June
18, 2004
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So what is a blog anyway?

• Blog (blôg)
• n.
• software that a person can use to create a
  type of website that consists primarily of
  templates and text that is easily posted to the
  site. Its easy to use, so you dont have to take
  a class in FrontPage, DreamWeaver or learn any
  programming languages. Brenda Howard
• a website you can update as easily as you can
  send an E-mail. Ernie Svenson
• (http//www.llrx.com/extras/ir36.htm)
• v.
• 1. to maintain a blog
• 2. to post something to a blog

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What do you need to blog?

• Hosted
• Blogger/Blogspot
• Typepad
• Desktop
• Radio UserLand
• Server
• PMachine
• Moveable Type

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Popularity of Law Blogs
From http//www.llrx.com/features/lawyerweblogs.ht
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Lists of Law-Related Blogs

• Blawg.org http//www.blawg.org/
• The Blawg Ring http//www.geocities.com/blawgring
  /
• Lawblogs.com http//www.lawblogs.com/
• Blawgsearch http//blawgs.detod.com/
• The Daily Whirl http//www.dailywhirl.com/
• The Blogrunner Law Channel http//www.blogrunner.c
  om/

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Searching Blogs

• Daypop http//www.daypop.com
• Search 59,000 blogs
• Word and news bursts
• Blogdex http//www.blogdex.com
• weblog diffusion index
• Blogsearchengine http//www.blogsearchengine.com/
  
• Google (owns Blogger.com)
• Includes blogs within search results
• Add blog inurlarchives after keywords for more
  focus
• Translater tool (powered by Google translate) at
  http//www.microcontentnews.com/resources/transl
  ator.htm

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BlogRunner

• Microcontent publishing or blog portal
• http//www.blogrunner.com/
• Repackages and indexes blog content
• See law channel (left column)
• Blog search engine
• Revenue sharing scheme
• Released 10/20/2003

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Blog Updates Via Email

• Bloglet - http//www.bloglet.com/
• An email subscription service for your blog
• Single, daily email with your blog updates is
  sent to readers
• Readers self-subscribe to your update at Bloglet
• Blogger - allows you to send an email to one
  address, which can be a mailing list

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RSS

• Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication
• Form of XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
• Looks like HTML
• See sample at http//www.utexas.edu/news/channels
  /rss/lawschool.rss
• Blogs can easily produce RSS also

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News Aggregators

• Easy way to read several blogs/news feeds at once
• News or RSS Readers
• http//www.amphetadesk
• http//www.newsisfree.com
• http//www.newsgator.com
• http//www.bloglines.com
• More readers at http//blogspace.com/rss/readers

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Contact Us

• Kris Niedringhaus
• Texas Wesleyan Law Library
• kniedringhaus_at_law.txwes.edu
• 817.212.3810
• June Liebert
• The University of Texas School of Law
• jliebert_at_mail.law.utexas.edu
• 512.232.2736