In this episode, Dennis and Tom discuss the use (or potential use) of Facebook by lawyers, giving some potential benefits and risks, practical tips, and observations about their experiments in using Facebook. They also talk about how they use the Google Reader for RSS feeds and Google Docs and Spreadsheets for simple collaborations. They also talk about the other podcasts they listen to and how they listen to them.

It's a good introduction for lawyers and other legal professionals to these topics.

You'll find the podcast episode here and there's an archive of earlier podcasts.

It's also a good time to remind you to check out Denise Howell's podcast - This Week in Law - on which you'll find some of the authors of the Between Lawyers blog appearing from time to time.

And, for Facebook members, we invite you to join the Between Lawyers Facebook group.

Tons of good ideas - I especially like #10.

What interested me were his comments on the possible uses of FeedBurner's new FeedFlare tool in connection with blawgs.

Jake says:

Brad Feld got all of us thinking about 'blawg'-focused FeedFlare.

Brad's idea was to add a Flare that would 'add a disclaimer' on each post that would be a small 'bio' link that would list the firm where the blawger is an attorney. That's a great start, but I'm sure there's bound to be more ideas. What about adding a Flare that would link back to the lawyer's latest publication?

The FeedFlare page suggests some other ideas as well.

Take a look and give it some thought. Let's collect and share ideas in the comments section for this post and we can get back to Jake with some good ideas. I agree with him that this idea has a lot of potential, especially if Rick Klau is involved.

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Today, in How RSS Can Bust Through, Dave Winer responds to VC Fred Wilson's comment that "RSS has to become brain-dead simple to use." He's absolutely right -- in order to get to the point where RSS becomes easy to use, it's going to require a pretty big shift in the way RSS is currently handled on the Internet.

Maybe the answer lies (somewhat) in reading lists, which you may see us talking about here in the near future.

People who use online newsreaders have it a little easier; there are specific links that provide "one-click subscription" to My Yahoo! and Bloglines. But that relies upon the feed provider to set up specific My Yahoo! and Bloglines buttons. It certainly would be easier if the newsreaders themselves came up with a "one-click" solution.

Here's a product that's certainly a step in the right direction. A company called KnowNow is providing Enterprise RSS services to companies, but it also has a nifty product called eLerts -- just download the toolbar (for IE only, unfortunately), and it provides real-time notification of new content posted to the feeds you select. But here's the great part: to add a feed, all you need to do is drag the RSS or XML or ATOM button to the toolbar, drop it in, and you're subscribed. Although I wouldn't necessarily recommend the KnowNow toolbar as a newsreader, this drag and drop idea is a terrific advance in making the subscription process more user-friendly.