Word Bites

From Hiawatha Bray's Boston Globe column on the Weblog Business Strategies Conference ("Companies get into weblog act"):

An idea this useful can't be left to mere hobbyists.

The best blogs don't just deliver authoritative information; they resonate with the personalities of their creators.

Politblogging

Tim Ireland has news of a newly launched blogger in the UK Parliament: Richard Allan. (Oh where, oh where, are our Congresscritters?)

I am in the midst of a nasty-busy week, fyi. Things could get a little quiet here for the next few days.

Newsworthy

As reported by the Dallas Business Journal, FareChase and American Airlines have settled their dispute over whether FareChase's software improperly accessed fare information from the American Airlines site. [via ILN] More on the case, including a copy of FareChase's opening brief on appeal, is at CIS.

John Healey of the Los Angeles Times reports in today's Business section on Muse.net, an application that seeks to deliver anytime, anywhere access to your digital media collection ("Standards for Personal Jukeboxes").

Janet Eastman of the Los Angeles Times reports in today's Calendar section on what may be the world's, uh, neatest vacuum cleaner ("Sweeping Changes").

Big Bad Blawgroll Bonanza

Blawgs, blawgs, everywhere! Please welcome these new additions to the B&B blawgroll:

Academic

• BizLawTech, the blawg for the Institute of Business, Law and Technology (IBLT) at the Touro Law Center. BizLawTech is maintained by the Institute's director, Professor Jonathan I. Ezor. (RSS feed.) [via Tom Mighell]


• D. Gordon Smith is a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. [via Jack Bogdanski]

Political (New Category)

Careful what you wish for. (I asked for blogging politicians; I got 'em!)

• Howard Dean, as you no doubt already know, is Governor of Vermont and running for President. [via Rick Klau]


• Tara Sue Grubb ran for Congress last year, and is "planning a caucus for the Internet Bill of Rights." She's also CEO of Policlicks. [via Dave Winer]


• Tom Watson is a Member of the UK Parliament. [via Dave Winer]

Practicing

• Stan Abrams is with the Chinese firm of Lehman Lee & Xu. His posts about Chinese law and culture are truly fascinating. [via Blawg.org]


• In case Stan's blog merely whets your appetite for things Asian (and it should), head next to the American Lawyer in a Japanese Law Office: "Life is better with an accent." [via the Blawg Ring]


• Business Lawyer is informative, witty and sharp: "This is a weblog by an attorney who doesn't go to court. So if you are looking for juicy tales of courtroom theatrics, you won't find any here. Try cable." Yes, I can see I'll be checking back here often.


• Michael Heng is a lawyer in Germany. [via the Blawg Ring]


• KC Lawyer is the blog of the firm Herron & Lewis. [via the Blawg Ring]


• A.J. Levy writes Out-Of-The-Box Lawyering, and is a lawyer, author and creative thinker. [via Ernie Svenson]


• There's a blawger in the house: Mike O'Sullivan writes the Corp Law Blog, and practices corporate securities and M&A law with Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles—which means we're in the same office building. Mike! We should have lunch. [via Tom Mighell]


• Patent Pending is the new blog of an old favorite: the once and future Incompetent Attorney.


• Lyle Roberts writes the 10B-5 Daily when he's not too busy being a securities litigation partner in Wilson Sonsini's Reston, VA office. [via Howard Bashman]

Learning The Craft

• Biting Tongue offers this observation about law firm summer associate programs: "[T]he more they wine and dine you, the more likely they are to work you to death if you sign on after your JD." [via the Blawg Ring]


• Chae Chae once upon a time had the pleasure of knowing an unusually durable hamster. [via the Blawg Ring]


• Cicero's Ghost is alive (dead?) and well, and has discovered the profession's dark secret: "The Bluebook is the Devil's work." [via the Blawg Ring]


• Donald writes of civil rights law at All Deliberate Speed, and might appreciate a nice pair of boxers.


• Heidi is in her first year at Tulane. [via Ernie Svenson]


• jd2bindc just took the LSAT again and realizes full well this was not entirely sane. [via Blawg.org]


• Tom of Damocles' Sword is mixing law school with border patrol training—specifically, "a .40 mm Beretta Brigadier 96D." Yipes! [via the Blawg Ring]


• My Waste Of Time follows a law student who currently is summer clerking in Manhattan. [via the Blawg Ring]

Giving It A Rest

• David Giacalone is a retired attorney and mediator, and a prolific writer on client-centered legal ethics. There's a wealth of good stuff on his site. [via Ernie Svenson]

Blawgers At Large

• Sascha Kremer writes Vertretbar.de. [via the Blawg Ring]


• Andrew Owens writes Owens Rhetoric and is enthusiastic about art and policy. [via the Blawg Ring]


• WeirdOfTheNews has a new home and name, The Legal Reader.

Integrating

• Larry Bodine now posts insights and resources to the LawMarketing Blog, in addition to heading up the LawMarketing Portal and related endeavors. [via Ernie Svenson]

Managing The Chaos

• Al-Muhajabah writes The Niqabi Paralegal, on legal issues facing Muslims in the U.S. and other things. [via Blawg.org]

Conglomerates

• The Censorware Project is down as I post this, but it was alive and well yesterday and presumably will be again. It's a collaborative effort examining a host of Web filtering and privacy issues. [via Jerry Lawson]


• The Commons Blog, as part of Information Commons, is a project of the American Library Association's Office for Information Technology Policy. This is via Donna Wentworth, who has more on why this site is emminently blogrollable.

You Can't Trust A Marketer

But you can trust Rick Bruner. (Or can you??)