RSS FeedFinalist for 2008 Legal Culture CLawBie
The 2008 Canadian Law Blog Awards are out for the year.
Law is Cool won the Legal Culture Award in 2007.
This year we were a runner up for the Legal Culture Award, which we’re still honoured to have. First place went to Slaw after Law is Cool founder Omar Ha-Redeye joined their team.
3) Legal Culture Award - Slaw evolved in 2008, drawing in more Canadian blogging talent (see Omar & the Daves!) and producing even more quality commentary. Despite my own involvement, this year’s nomination process (and Blawggies award) support what I’ve always known: Slaw has become a beacon for what Canadian law blogs have to offer. Runner ups: Law is Cool, Precedent.
A review of all the winners and finalists demonstrate the collaborative nature of the legal blogosphere, with many cross-collaborations and cooperation on various sites.
We can also take this opportunity to thank the many legal professionals that have helped this site continue, our contributors for their hard work, and and all of our readers for their dedication.
Law Blogs, Aggregated (Courtesy of Garry Wise)
Everything I know about social media I learned from PR professionals in my brief career in that field prior to law.
Neville Hobson (a social media guru in the U.K. who hosts one of my first podcast subscriptions, For Immediate Release) launched an RSS feed yesterday that combined over 60 of the best PR blogs around the world.
He based the selection on a PR Network previously created by David Jones, a local PR guru based in Toronto (he also hosts one of my other first podcasts, InsidePR).
I thought it was a great idea, so I decided to do the same for law blogs. I started by cloning his RSS from Yahoo Pipes, and it seemed simple enough. I wasn’t presumptuous enough to decide for myself who the best blogs were, so I began adding from Steve Matthew‘s Canadian Law Blog Awards (CLawBies).
I didn’t get very far though.
I made it to Garry Wise‘s blog and noticed a recent entry, Launching Wise Law Reader. Yes, Garry beat me to it.
The Wise Law Reader doesn’t use Pipes, but seems to accomplish the same goal. I can’t seem to find an RSS feed there yet, but I suspect it’s only a matter of time before he gets that up.
The best part about the Wise Law Reader is the top profile video prominently featured on it’s launch date, starring one really familiar law student.
Cross-posted from Slaw.ca
