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Wisdom Grows
Shout out to Letters of Marque, Sua Sponte, Screaming Bean, Jeremy Richey, Jeremy Blachman, and Transmogriflaw. Thanks to them, Blawg Wisdom is slowly becoming populated with links to great tips and gems of advice from successful law students around the "blawgosphere." As I read through some of the posts I'm impressed once again with the generosity and breadth of knowledge and experience and opinion displayed by so many blawgers. If I could only go back about two years and know then what I know now thanks to all of you...
But even though that's not possible, that's no reason to keep the benefits of our experience from those who are following in our footsteps. So again, if you have written or read a law school advice post on a blawg somewhere, please drop me an email so I can add a link to that post at Blawg Wisdom.
New: If you don't have a blawg of your own, but would like to pass on any tips or bits of advice to other law students about your law school experience, please send your wisdom to me and I'll make sure it gets posted at Blawg Wisdom.
Finally, here's a little experiment: Can the LazyWeb tell me the best way to automate Blawg Wisdom so that when someone writes a blog post containing advice for law students, that post automatically gets copied (and posted) to Blawg Wisdom?
Posted August 3, 2004 10:41 AM | advice meta-blogging
Ya' know, if I had the gumption to dig into this, I'd imagine that there's some way to implement a trackback-like feature that would do this. The problem is that there is no post to trackback to on wisdom, and then you'd have to count on the original poster actually tracking back. Not difficult with MT but with haloscan, etc., it's a real pain in the ass. Maybe a trackback link to a special URL, maybe containing a timestamp+ID# that increments everytime someone pings it so it always adds a new post. It could get messy, but I imagine it's possible.
Posted by: Steve at August 3, 2004 05:12 PM
http://www.dikigoros.net/archives/cat_just_for_1ls.html
has all of my 1L advice, including a sample case and brief.
It's probably redundant, but might provide good contrast for others.
Posted by: Katherine at August 3, 2004 09:23 PM
AI -- you've done a great job on this. Thanks so much for putting it together.
Posted by: transmogriflaw at August 3, 2004 10:24 PM
Steve: I think you're exactly right -- this could be done w/trackback if people would send pings. Andrew and Jose already mentioned some possible ways to do it (in comments here), but I'm just trying to see if there's any way to do it that would require w/even less effort on the part of the blawgers who contribute the advice.
Katherine: Thanks so much! I love the advice category and your case reading how-to is a great addition. My idea for Blawg Wisdom is that there really won't be any redundancies; because everyone is different, the best way to be successful is to get as many different perspectives as possible. I think we could have dozens of "how to read a case" lessons and it wouldn't be too many because that way the site is likely to be more helpful to more people.
Transmogriflaw: Thank you! Best of luck with that form you're wrestling with. From the peanut gallery it looks like a year off from law school would be super-wonderful! ;-)
Posted by: ambimb at August 4, 2004 06:15 AM
Thanks, AmbImb. I think a year off will be super-wonderful, really. But the freak in me that loved law school is a little sad, nonetheless. :)
Posted by: transmogriflaw at August 6, 2004 01:17 AM
