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Virtual Relationships: How One Legal Blog Got Its Feed Back

By Bruce Carton

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My experience trying to rescue my own legal blog (Securities Docket) from a "hack" this weekend offers an interesting example of how virtual relationships and a virtual workforce are transforming business. I heard from several readers going into the weekend that they were no longer receiving daily email alerts from Securities Docket and, after some investigation, I was able to confirm that the RSS feed from Securities Docket had been hacked. Somehow, a robot hacker had injected spam links to dozens of web sites into the feed, causing the feed to become invalid and to shut down. After some more investigation, I realized on Sunday that I had no idea how to possibly fix this problem on my own. Now what? I recalled that several months ago, I had asked Michelle Leder of Footnoted.org about who assisted with web design on her hugely popular Web site about SEC filings. Note that I have never met Michelle. I "know" her through Twitter and simply by being one of many thousands of readers of her blog. But after connecting on Twitter, we eventually had a telephone conversation months ago in which we discussed common issues facing our securities-related blogs, and during which...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).