Blawgsoming

And yet more blawgs! Carolyn Elefant is one of the authors at MyShingle, a Slashcode blawg for solos and small firms. Nice content, good philosophies (see, e.g., the Policies page), thoughtful insights: "[W]eblogs and increased sharing of substantive information is where the web is heading while static internet marketing that mimics hard copy (e.g., Yellow Pages and directories) is officially passe." Carolyn also has fired up the LOCE Wind and Wave Energy Weblog, a blog devoted to offshore wind and wave energy (one of Carolyn's practice areas).

Soho Attorney asks, in similar vein, "Because Why Should You Be A Wage Slave?" and provides further information for solo practitioners and small firms with a heavier emphasis on tech issues.

Phil Carter is a law student and former Army officer. Thanks to Jonas for the pointer.

And Hani O.K. is "everyone's favorite Snarky Egyptian Midwestern Transplant Clothes-horse 1L living in the NYC," with a photo of something you don't see every day: a cross-country skier in Manhattan. [via The Blawg Ring]

Eyes Right

Welcoming some newcomers to the Bag and Baggage blawgroll:

Products liability specialist Monique Svenson, Ernie's wife.

Terry Seale, aka The Old Fox, "a legal research specialist and information architect."

Dennis Kennedy, an IP/IT attorney, author and legal technology expert. (More about Dennis.) [via Ernie]

Adam White, a 2L at Harvard. [via Weblogs At Harvard]

Rebecca Nesson and Wayne Marshall, blogging from Jamaica, Mon. Both are Harvard grads, Rebecca of the law school too, and she's a Berkman Fellow. [via Weblogs At Harvard]

Interesting Times

Howard Rosenberg has this entertaining rant in today's L.A. Times (reg. req.) about the "troubled times" we now confront: "Something must be done -- before it's too late -- to end this television of mass destruction." (Sounds like Aaron Brown would be a blogging natural ;) .)

Nouns Of Multitude Or Signifying Many

Good discussion at Shelley's about the Google-Pyra news, including this comment from bumr ("More and more of the content Google returns in its results are weblogs;" more) and this one from Jeneane ("Look for Gonzo to take hold").

Consistent with bumr's observations, lately I've noticed myself looking for -- and finding -- pertinent information using Google by limiting the search to the "radio.weblogs.com" or "blogspot.com" domains. Now, I'm well aware that most of the world has a different host or server*, and I'm not saying I don't search more broadly as well. What I'm saying is you should give this a whirl and see how effective it can be. A quick example: I found a number of these resources by limiting the search to radio.weblogs.com. The same search limited to blogspot.com turned up this really wonderful electronic discovery library, maintained by Kroll Ontrack, and via Old Fox Den. I didn't know Kroll Ontrack from Adam, but its eEvidence law library is quite good, and it doesn't surprise me at all that I learned this from a blawger and Kylie Minogue fan.

"But Denise," you say, "Daypop already lets you limit search results to weblogs in general." Sure, but this is Google we're talking about. See Cory Doctorow: "If Google pulls it off successfully, it will be able to generate tons of great, new, brilliant features, use its data-mining to refine them and build secondary services atop them, and that innovation will flow out to the other blogging tools. And vice-versa."

*Think about how this might shift, is shifting. Sweet mullet, is it an AOL world after all??

News

Dan Gillmor: "Weblogs are going Googling." Don't miss the "Update" links at the end; as-published article here.

Keynote HQ: "This site will provide valuable resources to make the most out of your presentations developed with Keynote." [via J-Files; link added]