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Legal Professionals

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RSS
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Podcasts Presented by
Bonnie Shucha
Univ. of WI Law Library
© Bonnie Shucha
Blogs
A blog IS
a Web site

But the structure is

slightly different than
a traditional website
Brief informational
posts in reverse Blawg=
chronological Law-related blog
order

Comment feature Archives of previously posted content;

offers interactivity Subscription options (appear below)

http://www.law.wisc.edu/blogs/wisblawg/
The Blogosphere

„ There are 57 Million+ blogs

„ Blogosphere doubles every 7.5 months

„ On average, 100,000 new blogs are created daily

As of October 2006 from the Technorati Weblog

http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/11/161.html
Kryptonite Locks
Finding Blogs

„ Legal
‰ Blawg: Law & Legal Related Weblogs -
http://www.blawg.org/

„ General
‰ Google Blog Search -
http://blogsearch.google.com/
‰ Feedster - http://feedfinder.feedster.com/
RSS

RSS Makes the

Internet Subscribe-able
RSS Readers

„ RSS readers are also known as:

‰ RSS aggregators
‰ news readers
‰ news aggregators
RSS Readers

Email message Email application

(information) (reader)

RSS feed RSS Reader

(information) (reader)
Bloglines
„ Free Web-based RSS reader
„ Use to read:
‰ RSS feeds
‰ Email Listservs!

„ Subscribe at http://www.bloglines.com/

Tutorial movie (UC Berkeley Library):

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BIOS/rss.html
RSS Feeds
Posts
RSS Feeds

„ Legal
‰ RSS News Feeds for Law, TVC Alert -
http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/rss_law.html

„ News
‰ Media Drop -
http://www.themediadrop.com/archives/001588.php
RSS Feeds – Search Engines

„ General
‰ Feedster - http://feedfinder.feedster.com/
RSS Feeds – Custom Blog Feeds

„ Google Blog Search - http://blogsearch.google.com/

Email
Alerts
Email Alerts

„ TVC Alert’s Legal Alerts and Current

Awareness Services -
http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/legal_alerts.
html
Email Alerts

„ LexisNexis’ Alert -
http://www.lexisnexis.com/legalonline/alerts

„ Westlaw’s Westclip -
http://west.thomson.com/westlaw/westclip/
Email Alerts

„ WisBar Caselaw Express -

http://tinyurl.com/gmxgr

„ Wisconsin Legislative Notifications -

http://notify.legis.state.wi.us/Home.aspx
Email Alerts

„ Google Alerts - http://www.google.com/alerts

PodCasts
Law Podcasts (Plawdcasts)

„ Blawg.org Podcast Direcotry -

http://blawg.org/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_
op=viewlink&cid=160

„ Wisconsin LRB Podcasts -

http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/podcasts/
Podcast Search Engines

„ Podscope - http://www.podscope.com/

„ PodZinger - http://www.podzinger.com/
Questions?

Presentation by:
Bonnie Shucha
Head of Reference
University of Wisconsin Law Library
bjshucha@wisc.edu