Syndication, Law Marketing (Sorry, I'm having catchy title block)

Genie Tyburski spotted Internetnews.com's coverage of the proposed RSS/Atom merger. Chris Pirillo, from the article: "If your aggregator supports Atom, it doesn't matter. If it doesn't support Atom, users will choose a different aggregator."

Larry Bodine writes about lawyer weblogs at Immigration Daily: "Marketing Directly To Clients With Weblogs." Quick correction: it's just li'l old me posting here at Bag and Baggage, which is unaffiliated with my practice group or law firm, though I write about both from time to time. In fact, I've been meaning to give a Bag and Baggage welcome to Dennis Maio, who joins Reed Smith's appellate practice from the California Supreme Court; here's the whole scoop.

More Reasons To Meet Seth Stevenson

His fascination with spongemonkeys and roaming gnomes:

These spots are based on a now-common prank, in which you steal your neighbor's lawn gnome, lug it around the world, and mail back photos of the gnome astride far-flung landmarks. Whoever first thought to do this is, in my book, an unparalleled genius (and a genius of my favorite stripe, too: useless genius).

"Roaming Gnome" is one of my favorite names for Tyler as he gets carted around and photographed in various venues. Yesterday, the Sweatiest Place On Earth; next weekend, the Long Beach Outdoor Antique And Collectible Market.

Analogrolling

My dad just emailed that fly fishing for steelhead without a drift boat is like praying at the Vatican: exalted setting, no tangible results.

And I've been thinking that a breastfeeding baby is like an alimentary Picture of Dorian Gray: you stuff yourself, s/he gains all the weight.

Urp! (Pardon.)

Seems NursingMom.com has a blog.

The Docket Is In

My colleague Ben just let me know that WestDockets is free through March 31st: "WestDockets contains documents from most federal and many state courts, with new ones being added by the day."

We're so spoiled here in the California appellate system; dockets are free and provided by the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. They need RSS and/or another content publishing standard, is all.