Seminar on RSS and other collaborations between blogs and web sites

An invitation to "speak" to a group of lawyer bloggers, webmasters and
internet techies issued to Joshua Tauberer of GovTrack
http://www.govtrack.us/ and for all else that he is doing, that is at
http://taubz.for.net/

Hi Joshua:

I am very impressed with what you have been able to do at GovTrack ...
congratulations on a job well done and best wishes for accomplishing even
more during the new year.

You are blazing many new trails for online interaction ... developing new
models for collaborations between blogs, websites and other sources of
comment and information.

I would like to feature you as a guest speaker for an online-seminar
email-based program on RSS and other forms of collaboration between blogs
and web sites in the Network-Lawyers email-based and web-based discussion
group, which concists of lawyer-bloggers, law-site webmasters and online
lawyer techies. The group also includes a substantial contingent of law
librarians and other information technology professionals.

We have some experience at this.  we had a series of seven week long
seminars, one each month from September through February of last year on
various internet related topics.  As a "speaker" you will find plenty of
support from the more knowledgeable participants in the group in the form of
good questions, comments and follow up on answers.  Your asynchronous
participation in the group should not take more than 30 minutes a day during
the week.  I think the gang in Network-Lawyers would be envigorated with the
topic that you would address: RSS and other forms of collaboration between
blogs and web-sites.

We have developed a routine of breaking the topic up into about five
subtopics with one of the topics being introduced over the preceding week
end and then a new subtopic introduced Monday evening for Tuesday and so
forth through the Thursday evening when the last subtopic is introduced.  We
select a panel to work with the speaker, generally one or two panel members
take primary responsibility for each of the subtopics.  They pitch a series
of "soft-ball" questions in your direction to get the discussion going and
the other members of the panel jump in to keep the conversation going if
need be.

How did I find GovTrack:  One of the many lawyer-bloggers participating in
the Network-Lawyers listserve picked up on GovTrack and I relayed his
article on to the listserv in the message that is appended below.

John

co-moderator, Network-Lawyers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/network-lawyers
http://netls.blogspot.com



-----Original Message-----
From: John DeBruyn [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 4:39 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: Mighell spots, Gov Track, a super tracker


Tom Mighell's weekly e-newsletter points us to GovTrack, a very useful web
resource -- a blog plus you might say, with a great deal of useful
information about pending federal legislation. http://www.govtrack.us/  Like
Tom says about his e-newsletter, GovTrack is free! Follow these links to
learn more about GovTrack:

2005-01-28. There was a short New York Times article
http://www.govtrack.us/articles/20050126nyt.xpd in yesterday's Circuits
section about GovTrack, and as a result the number of registered users on
the site has topped 1,000! This item at Gov Track:

http://www.govtrack.us/blog/?entry=http://govtrack.us/blog/6dc49a7d-99e4-4d6
f-881c-3a1cae354ff2
Or tinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/3lgq3

2005-01-22. Now that GovTrack is pretty much functionally complete, I'm
[Joshua Tauberer, GovTrack's creator is] shifting my focus to how websites
with similar goals as GovTrack can share data, collaborate, and generally
benefit from each other.  This item at Gov Track:

http://www.govtrack.us/blog/?entry=http://govtrack.us/blog/61e3d604-7310-4b5
1-acde-43e557d755c6
Or tinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/4ol3h

Perhaps the bloggers and webmasters among us can learn how to maximize RSS
and other inter-web stratagies for collaboration between sites from what
GovTrack has done and will be doing with other sites to share data and
otherwise cooperate.

From Tom's e-newsletter: GovTrack.us does a couple of things. First, you'll
be able to track federal legislation, as well as just about anything
happening on Capitol Hill, and you can set up an RSS feed to monitor your
searches. You can also track what other people think of legislation and
other government matters, by monitoring the entries of bloggers. A great use
of weblog and RSS technology to help individuals in their legal research.
http://www.govtrack.us/

To subscribe to Tom's excellent e-newsletter, Internet Legal Research
Weekly, just visit http://www.inter-alia.net to sign up.

John

P.S. I am energized with the prospect of doing one of our gala, week-long
seminars on the topic of RSS and other forms of collaboration between blogs
and web sites. Drop me a note if you would be willing to assist. Perhaps we
can get Joshua of GovTrack fame to join us. More about Joshua and all that
he is doing http://taubz.for.net/ J.

John DeBruyn, Denver CO USA




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There is a read/write Web page with resources that will be linked there and used during the Seminar on PDFs for lawyers and legal applications:

http://Network-Lawyers.org/PDFLinks

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