Wednesday, May 11, 2005

One stop blawging

Cross posted at Political Arguments.

Via Brian Leiter, a new site that collects major blawg (that's "law-related blogs" to the layperson) posts: Juris Novus.
Juris Novus is loosely translated from Latin to denote "law refreshed". Juris Novus is a law headline syndicator and aggregator. An aggregator is a web portal which syndicates multiple news/content sources into a single page. Juris Novus syndicates headlines from relevant sources to bring together the most up to date happenings in the online law space.

Juris Novus was designed, created and is maintained by Greg Smith. I developed JN to "scratch an itch": easy access to headlines from multiple sites I read daily. Rather than use a desktop aggregator I chose to code my own and place it online. Why? JN is accessible from any computer with an Internet connection and available to the community at large. There are several excellent law related tools online already and this is merely my own contribution to that tradition.

It even has a link that allows the reader to choose which blawgs to show and which to hide. Juris Novus does nothing that can't be done with a folder in Bloglines, but it's worth a look for those who prefer this sort of interface.