Something that we haven’t mentioned here on Slaw is the new law blog monitoring website Lexmonitor [1]. The site was developed by Kevin O’Keefe [2] and Lexblog, who are normally in the business of building lawyer blogs [3], 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 [4] 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 [5], 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:
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. :)