New litigation-oriented legal resource

The Network of Trial Law Firms has a weblog page.  This one is more commercial and promotional than most familiar weblogs.  Its entries are news items related to legal issues, including profiles of results in recent cases as submitted by member firms.  Many of the entries have additional links to information and resources on the topic at hand.

Jerry Lawson at net.law.blog notes that he has been advocating the use of weblogs for organizations for some time now. 

Update -- Maybe it's not new after all.  Tom Mighell of InterAlia reports that the NTLF log has been up since August of 2000, perhaps qualifying it for charter member status.

3:15:31 PM    

Falling flat

Roogle is a new offering which purports to be a search engine for RSS feeds.  A good idea, that, although its blatant pilfering of Google's logo will surely not last long. 

It is technically a bust, though.  An effort to submit a URL for an RSS feed results in a fatal script error and presumably failure of the submission.  Not the best initial showing for a group which calls itself "an experienced team of web developers [who] focus on complex problems, often database or back end application related."

(Update -- The problem is apparently fixed.  And they are looking for a different name.  That didn't take long.)

Similarly, the "Become a Blawgistan Feed" link at the Blawgistan News site does not link to a submission form.  Instead, it links to a search page, and has done so for many weeks.

7:05:24 AM