If legal blogs continue to grow and develop as they have, they will eventually be cited by courts and litigants in legal documents. Should legal bloggers have an obligation to follow style guidelines that will make their blogs easy to use/read/refer?
No, not strictly; yes; and yes. I think you've identified four areas where official recommendations would help. "Open-source" ethics sounds promising. Style suggestions could, at least, promote better blog writing. And for blawgs that take themselves seriously, safe and standard archiving and technical structure should be a must. I think ideas on all of these topics should be developed here.
But, I expect the most important task will be herding all the discussion tidbits so that bloggers can use this site as a reference guide.
Posted by: empty on November 26, 2003 10:40 AMAgreed. And since your generation of law students is the first to have legal blogs as a companion to your more traditional sources of legal market and community info, you and your peers are in the best position to shape which way these things go.
Posted by: David on November 26, 2003 02:16 PMI think the only rule is that blawgers should use permalinks. See my post on the topic at: http://www.davidopderbeck.com/2003_12_01_archive.html#107038528007508908
Posted by: David Opderbeck on December 2, 2003 09:15 AM