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February 23, 2005
Threads worth watching:
Lots of discussion going on at:- Preaching to the Perverted who asks: What kind of wireless support does your law school offer?
- Jeremy Richey, who argues that his school's Christian Legal Society should be able to officially exclude students from leadership positions on the basis of their sexuality. Related: Since when is “sanctity of conscience” a “right”?
- One of today's guest posts at Notes from the (Legal) Underground in which a law student/software developer explains how his software could benefit other law students, leading to brief discussion of writing/research tools.
- Legal Quandary's request for info about moving to DC.
- For something totally unrelated: Dave Winer's argument against Google's new toolbar and it's autolink feature is on fire, comment-wise.
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“Blawg” & Blawg Republic
I learned yesterday that Denise Howell of Bag and Baggage coined the word “blawg” in the sense of “legal-related blog.” Since I use the word all the time now and made such a big (sort of) deal about it in this article, I wanted to give credit where it's due. I know some people do not find the word helpful, and it becomes less useful if you're speaking rather than writing, but I obviously think it's a great contraction in a web-writing context, so thank you, Denise. And speaking of blawg, have you seen Blawg Republic? Is your blawg listed there? This one isn't, but I'm wondering why Blawg Wisdom is listed under “Law Professors”. I mean, it would be nice if I were a law professor, or if professors wanted to contribute more to the advice on the site, but....Posted 06:24 AM | Comments (3) | law general meta-blogging