In the words of Pension Risk Matters blogger and financial analyst Susan Mangiero, blogging can be "a lonely endeavor." That's why it's so rewarding when readers respond with praise, appreciation, suggestions, and even criticism. The CEO and President of Pension Governance, Inc., Susan sta...

Stacey Merrick, LexBlog's Director of Client Services, is in San Francisco today and through the weekend attending BlogHer 2008, the annual conference for women who blog. This morning, Stacey checked in and attended her first event - "What We Do: Taking Care of Business," which was hosted ...

Many of you know LexBlog is working on a project called the LexMonitor, a daily review of law blogs and journals. One of LexMonitor's features is the highlighting of prominent legal discussion. Now that we've got LexMonitor running in Beta testing, it's fascinating to watch the daily clustering of p...

Since returning to the office on Tuesday, we've seen three new client bloggers - one from the western United States, one from the east and one from the south - launch into the blogosphere. The new projects debuted between May 27 and 30 were: The Tyler Appeals Blog, from Texas attorney Jeff Rambin. T...

Back in Seattle from the ABA TechShow in Chicago. That's the Chief Seattle fireboat as seen from the ferry pulling out of Elliot Harbor to home on Bainbridge Island. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at TechShow though this 52 year old body has a hard time staying up to bar time with the likes of Ben Ste...

For today's LexBlog Q & A, I conducted a phone interview with Larry Schwartz, president and co-founder of Newstex. Newstex, a virtual company founded in 2004, offers a unique approach to aggregating news and full-text blog content. During our conversation, Larry talked about the business model b...