On my blog, Real Lawyers Have Blogs, now in its 15th year, I share information, news and insight to help legal professionals looking to network online, whether it be via blogging or other social media.
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October 2019
In the ocean of digital content, how do you ensure that your blog posts and articles reach the shores of those who seek them? Enter the RSS feed, a cornerstone of content distribution that most law firms and many legal website developers are overlooking.
What is an RSS Feed?
An RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed
TypePad is a blogging platform of twenty-three years, currently under the ownership of Endurance International Group. Prior to Endurance, it was held by SAY Media, a product of the merger between Six Apart and Video Egg.
Given TypePad’s present problems, the platform is not a reliable blogging medium for legal practitioners, or indeed, any professionals.
Could Perblixity Pages from Perpelexity AI replace blogging as we know it? Some long time digital media professionals believe so.
I don’t believe AI solutions are going to replace blogging, but blogging is never going to be the same as a result of applications such as Perplexity Pages.
What is Perplexity Pages and how does
I blogged last week that AI (ChatGPT) enabled me to summarize books for purpose of blogging and learning.
The New York Times’ Steven Kurtuz reports this week on an interactive reading experience, -were by AI.
Two philosophy professors, John Kaag and Clancy Martin, have started a publishing venture called Rebind.
Rebind takes classic texts in
Reading a non-fiction business book has markedly changed with the advent of AI – at least for me.
Let me share how, with an example. I picked up Howard Schultz’ first book on Starbucks, Pour Your Heart Into It, back in 1997. I was noodling on starting a virtual law community to connect caring
The more I share how ChatGPT can be used by legal bloggers and writers, the more I hear that GPT, by giving wrong advice, is dangerous and unethical.
Dave Winer’s comments, over the weekend, were spot on.
To people who say you get wrong answers from ChatGPT, if I wanted my car to kill
Yes, it appears the “memory” feature on Open AI’s ChatGPT will remember your style of writing. Especially if you are directing GPT to keep in its memory the style of your writing.
I tested early last year asking of GPT to draft items in my style – as I described and by what it had
Have you gone to ChatGPT and asked “What do you remember about me?”
If not, you’re missing proof that AI can be a heck of a tool in helping you steward your life, professionally and personally. If you’re not blown away, then you are not using GPT enough for it to truly help you.
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You can now scan the pages of a book with ChatGPT and ask GPT to summarize a chapter for you.
What’s even better? GPT remembers my past conversations and searches, giving it context as to questions and discussions relating to the book I am reading. It’s like having a super-smart assistant who knows exactly what
Walking home from Starbucks yesterday, we talked about how much the landscape for selecting a lawyer had changed by the late 1990s when I moved to Seattle to start PrairieLaw, an online community connecting people to good lawyers. The days of picking a lawyer from the yellow pages were just about dead – in my