Part One: Making News Online


  • West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

  • Opinion Summaries Mailing List

  • Summaries by topic: Civil, Criminal and Family

  • Webcast of Oral Arguments

  • Rory Perry's Weblog

  • How Courts Can Use Syndication and Weblogs

  • The Court PIOs Rock! weblog we created in 2 minutes in Pittsburgh
  • View the blog
  • Post to the blog or change its settings: Give it a try. You can't break it! Go to
    the main Blogger.com page and sign-in (upper right corner of page) with Username: ccpio and Password: ccpio2004. Then click on Court PIOs Rock!
    link in the middle of the page.
  • Here's a quick tutorial on how to post and change settings in Blogger.com
    blogs.
  • Create your own blog with Blogger.com: Go to the main Blogger.com page
    and create an account. (If you've signed in to post to our Pittsburgh blog,
    you must first sign out.)
  • PC Magazine reviews of major blogging software packages, if you want to
    blog but don't like the way Blogger.com does it.



    • Part Two: Finding News Online


    A. Legitimate News Sites

    Your Morning Briefing

  • Law.com's Daily Legal Newswire (e-mail)
    The day's leading stories in the legal trade press.

  • How Appealing (RSS)
    Links to today's top legal stories in the general press.

  • National Journal's Early Bird
    Links to today's top stories in the general press.


    • Monitoring Breaking News

    E-Mail Alerts

  • AP and Reuters Alerts, via Yahoo (sample)

  • CNN Breaking News Alert (sample)

  • MSNBC Breaking News Updates (sample)

  • Wall Street Journal newsletters

  • BNA's Internet Law News

    The Wire Services

  • AP National Wire Raw Feed from the Washington Post or The State

  • Reuters Top News Wire Raw Feed (RSS)

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    Tracking a Topic: Aggregation Sites

  • Yahoo's Full Coverage

  • Topix, including secondary pages about legal practice areas,
    law firms and high-profile trials

  • All Headline News, including secondary pages about law, the judiciary and Michael Jackson

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    Finding a Particular Story: News Search Engines

  • Google News Search (e-mail, RSS)

  • Yahoo News Search (e-mail, RSS)

  • Opinion Pages, an editorial search engine

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    B. Blogs: The Internet's Wild West


    Law Blogs

  • All Legal Topics: The Paper Chase (RSS)

  • Court and Legislative Documents: beSpacific (e-mail, RSS)

  • US Supreme Court: SCOTUS Blog (RSS)

  • Sentencing Guidelines: Sentencing Law & Policy (RSS)

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    RSS Readers

  • On a web page: Sample My Yahoo page (ID = ccpio2004 and
    Password = august2004) Sign up for your own My Yahoo page here.

  • In Microsoft Outlook: Newsgator

  • In its own program: Feed Demon

  • Yahoo's list of RSS readers

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    Blog Directories

  • EDDix Top 50 Law Blogs

  • Ernie the Attorney's Directory of Law Blawgs

  • Blawg.org

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    Searching Blogs

  • Technorati

  • Daypop

  • Bloglines

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    Taking the Internet's Pulse

  • Google NewsMap

  • Intelliseek's Blog Pulse

  • Today's Newspaper Front Pages

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    C. Legal Documents

    Court Decisions & Pleadings

  • Federal -- Free: Individual court web sites

  • Federal -- Fee: Pacer

  • State -- Free & Fee: Individual court web sites

  • FindLaw's Breaking Documents (e-mail) (sample)
    See "Featured Documents" list on right side of page for latest documents.
    Select More Documents for older items.

  • Defendants' Web Sites: Martha Stewart, Microsoft, and Michael Jackson

  • Counsel Web Sites: Wiggin and Dana's Rumsfeld v. Padilla page

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    Collections of Documents

  • Celebrities: The Smoking Gun (e-mail)

  • Government Secrecy: The Memory Hole (e-mail)

  • Government Secrecy: Federation of American Scientists Secrecy News (e-mail)

  • Personal Privacy: Cryptome

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