News Aggregators Become Mainstream J.D. Lasica, blogger and senior editor for the Online Journalism Review, details the advantages of the increasingly popular free and fee-based news aggregator applications in News That Comes to You. These programs allow researchers who are suffering from information overload to scan headlines chosen from among thousands of news feeds that use RSS (Rich Site Summary) tags. [beSpacific]

I bet I'm not the only one who would like to have folders in my aggregator for all the courts I'm watching for orders and opinions, and read those feeds just like I read all the others. I really need to write some evangelistic tutorials. Barry Bayer, of the Law Office Technology Review, called me today to confirm that the court I work for is the only one producing RSS feeds for opinions and such. So far as I know, we're still the one.

(30 Jan) The article outlines procedures and policies that help law firms protect client data and reduce their risk of exposure. [TVC Alert]

New Lawyer Bloggers, check this out - Jerry Lawson has started a blog page just for you. And it has an RSS feed so you can catch it in your favorite news reader/aggregator. And he has other categories too, such as ethics. Wasn't someone recently asking when someone would start an Ethics blog? [Ernie the Attorney]

I spent way too much time in the past three days going under the hood to learn some CSS styling, the hard way. (A comment like "I went to law school for this?" could be inserted here, of course, but, maybe, legal training makes it easier to grasp hierarchical material quickly. Biggest CSS lesson learned - pay attention to inheritance.) The results of all this fiddling? a revamped topical index, using serif fonts for the main body of the outline, including Cochin for all you lucky Safari users. (Text looks so great, I'm never going back to IE.) After trying to go tableless, I ended up sticking with the basic table template provided with activeRenderer. While it's great to learn by immersion, and others can apparently go tableless in under three days, I can only take so much.