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July 15, 2008

Steven Matthews

Lexmonitor & Threaded Law Blog Posts

Something that we haven’t mentioned here on Slaw is the new law blog monitoring website Lexmonitor. The site was developed by Kevin O’Keefe and Lexblog, who are normally in the business of building lawyer blogs, and now expanding into the world of aggregations & web publishing. If you subscribe to the make your own media approach, which I frequently do, then a monitor tool aligned with the company product makes a lot of business sense.

When I noted the launch of Lexmonitor a couple weeks back, the concept I thought the most of was the threaded discussion tracking. I called it, and still believe it to be, Lexmonitor’s killer feature. Very similar to the functionality of techmeme, a technology tracking site of similar utility, lexmonitor connects posts that are on similar topics, or have a linking relationship.

Here’s a screen capture of a recent post by Connie, and the related discussions from other legal bloggers:

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Now, if I was to fire a couple arrows here, I’d probably suggest:

  • more frequent updates;
  • more than 4 discussions on the homepage (10 perhaps?); and
  • dedicated subject area pages, with a smaller number of pulled blogs & more focused discussion threads.

But not today… For now, I’ll call it a great start. The opportunity to get demanding isn’t going anywhere. :)

Steve Matthews is the Founder of Stem Legal, a company that helps organizations in the legal industry to gain greater web visibility.
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3 Comments on “Lexmonitor & Threaded Law Blog Posts”

  1. Michael Webster says:
    July 15, 2008 at 8:54 am

    Don’t know, I like the idea. But it seems slow to update and I prefer scanning alltop law entries – better layout.

  2. Steven Matthews says:
    July 15, 2008 at 10:51 am

    I agree. It is a little slow. I’d probably have it update 3-4 times a day, and archive the point-in-time views similar to techmeme. LM, for me, is a what’s hot tool; which is why I like the threaded discussion concept.

    Alltop, on the other hand, is more about scanning feeds. The big competition for Alltop in my world is my feed aggregator. And because I discover new content via topical search feeds, that’s probably going to make me a tough convert for Alltop.

  3. Kevin OKeefe says:
    July 17, 2008 at 10:29 am

    Thanks for the mention of and feedback on LexMonitor. Each of the items you mention are under consideration. Big issue addressing now is speed and the updating of posts, as mentioned by Michael.

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