Washington Lawyer: Do You Blog?

The Washington Lawyer's April cover story is entitled “Do You Blog?” Well, do you? The article was written by Sarah Kellogg and covers everything from the birth of blogs and RSS to the benefits and perils of professionals publishing online. It's a great article, but it would have been even better if it would have provided links to to all of the many blogs it mentions.* In case you'd like to check out the blogs mentioned in the article, they include:

• Bag and Baggage by Denise Howell
• CrimLaw by Ken Lammers
• Fourth Amendment by John Wesley Hall, Jr.
• May It Please the Court by J. Craig Williams
• The Blawg Review by Stephanie Tai (not to be confused with, um, Blawg Review
• My Shingle by Carolyn Elefant
• Dennis Kennedy's blog (Kennedy calls Kellogg's article the best article he's read on blawging)
• The Trademark Blog by Martin Schwimmer
• SCOTUSBlog from Goldstein Howe
• Ernie the Attorney by Ernest Svenson
• The Statutory Construction Zone by Gary O’Connor
• Environmental Law Net (which seems to stretch the definition of “blog” a bit, it seems)
• Underneath Their Robes by Article III Groupie
• Blawg Wisdom, which links to content from many law students and legal practitioners
• Reid My Blawg! by Reid Trautz
• And several others that are linked at the end of the piece...

I enjoyed talking w/Sarah a few weeks ago for this article, and I'm flattered to have been included among such company. I do have two small clarifications. First, the article suggests that Blawg Wisdom is where I keep a record of my progress through law school, but actually, to the extent that I do that at all, it's here, on ambivalent imbroglio. Blawg Wisdom is intended to aggregate the advice and experience of other law students. Second, I don't think I usually talk in the short, choppy sentences in which my quotes were rendered in the article. However, I've conducted enough phone interviews to know that sometimes a writer has to take small liberties to translate the interview into the article. In all, “Do You Blog?” is a great summary of where legal blogs have been, where they are at the moment, and where they might be headed—definitely worth checking out. *I had this same problem when I wrote “Join the Blawg Bandwagon” for Student Lawyer magazine. Here's a tip for editors: If you know an article is going to be published both in print and online, ask the writer for two versions—one complete w/links for the web, and one w/out links for print. Or just ask for the one with links and delete the links for the print version. Either way, you'll have a better product in the end.

Posted April 1, 2005 07:51 AM | law general meta-blogging