Have you been mulling whether to start your own law blog thinking that it might be a low cost way to drum up business and get the word out?

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Well, before you sign up for that Blogger or Wordpress account, check out the WSJ Law Blog’s recent post highlighting this excellent article by Mark Herrmann who shares the lessons he learned after launching the Drug and Device Law Blog.  Among the gems in the article, is the following advice:

“You can take a day off from publishing a post. But you’ll see the traffic to your site decrease. You can take a week off. But you’ll probably lose many readers permanently. You can take a month off. But when you start up again, you’ll essentially be building a new readership from scratch. Whether you are in depositions, in trial, or on vacation, you’d better pre-write some posts and have them published in your absence, or you’ll pay a price in readership. Don’t have the blind spot that I did. Go into blogging aware of the Herculean effort it demands.”

Book designer Craig Mod recently published this (visually stunning) post on his personal blog explaining why he gladly bids good riddance to the printed word.  This point of view comes as a bit of a surprise from someone who has devoted the past six years to “trying to make beautiful printed books.”  You’d think that a book designer of all people would be waxing philosophical about the value in preserving his craft.  Not so.

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Mod, to his credit, sees incredible potential in the iPad, and argues that this new beautiful container will actually make written works less disposable.  Read the entire post here or the New York Time’s take on his post, here.

If you have ever received a ticket for running a red light that you swear you didn’t see, courtesy of one of those new-fangled red light cameras, you are not alone.  The same thing happened to former Missouri State Highway Patrolman Adolph Belt, and in the words of Missouri’s high court: “he did not take the matter lightly.”  Belt, a “traffic expert,” went back to the intersection, timed the yellow caution light and found that it was too quick and that the stoplight and the cameras needed to be synchronized.  So he fought the citation all the way up to the Missouri Supreme Court — and won.

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But as is often the case with these types of stories, his victory had little to do with the merits of the case.  Instead, the Missouri Supreme Court determined that the city of Springfield was wrong to deny him a de novo trial of his initial hearing because violation of a red light ordinance is a moving violation.  This is not the first time state judges have taken issue with red-light camera enforcement.  According to The Newspaper, similar rulings have been handed down by the Iowa Supreme Court and the Ohio Supreme Court.  Read the entire decision, Springfield v. Belt, No. SC90324 (Missouri March, 2, 2010), here.

In case you haven’t heard, the iPhone vs. Nexus One rivalry has moved into the courtroom in the form of a high stakes patent battle.

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On March 2, 2010 Apple filed “filed a lawsuit against HTC [the manufacturer of Google's Nexus One smartphone] for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. The lawsuit was filed concurrently with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. District Court in Delaware.” (Read Apple’s full press release here).

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For a great in-depth look at the lawsuit (an access to the complaint) check out Engaget’s coverage here.