One of the recent kerfuffles in the legal blogosphere (or, if you must, the blawgosphere) is about anonymity. On blogs. Yeah! I know! But they all sound so serious! Dan Hull started it (this time) with his declaration that What About Clients was now a "Wuss-Free Zone." Effective July 1, 2009, and absent compelling reasons, this blog will no longer print any comments of … [Read more...] about The Blogger Identity: Claims
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Chitika
In my latest attempt to make blogging pay well enough to afford new camera equipment, I've started displaying Chitika search-targeted advertising. The cool thing about this is that all of you who read my blog regularly won't be seeing any additional ads because of it. When somebody out there clicks on a link to Windypundit in the result set from a search engine like Google, … [Read more...] about Chitika
USLaw.com and “nofollow”
In a comment to an earlier post about USLaw.com, someone calling themselves "d." wrote: There is still a nofollow tag, at least on links to Scott's most recent post (or most recent as of a few minutes ago).... it seemed from comments at SJ that the nofollow tag was an issue in terms of something technical I do not understand. I'm not a search engine guru, but let me take a … [Read more...] about USLaw.com and “nofollow”
USLaw.com Strikes Back
When Scott Greenfield complained about an outfit called USLaw.com which was republishing his blog articles in their entirety, I didn't think they were doing anything terribly wrong because Scott's blog publishes a syndication feed, and this is what syndication looks like. Scott disagrees. He doesn't think that's proper use of a feed, and he says my position indicates that … [Read more...] about USLaw.com Strikes Back
The Evil That USLaw.com Does
It's Monday, and over at Simple Justice Scott Greenfield is complaining about marketers. Usually, he complains about people who leave comments on his blog with an SEO-friendly link back to their web site (e.g. "DWI Attorney"). I never really understood why Scott was so vehement about this. Personally, I will delete the totally gratuitous comments (e.g. "You raise some … [Read more...] about The Evil That USLaw.com Does