Old legal media has finally come upon blogs. In this article (free on nylawyer.com but "subscription only" on NYLJ - go figure) they get the basics right enough, and quote Larry Bodine (natch), but estimate the total number of legal blogs to be between 200 and 500. Those numbers may have been accurate a year and a half ago, but now I would estimate the total number of active legal blogs in North America alone to exceed one thousand.

Unfortunately, the article does not mention syndication via RSS or Atom. That omission is unfortunate because it appears that we are about to see a leapfrog effect where - because new browsers and email clients will come with built-in RSS/Atom readers - lawyers new to the blogosphere will enter directly via headlines/feeds on an interface they are already used to (such as Outlook), obviating the need for visiting actual legal blogs. In addition, I think that much blog reading (I use blogs and feeds interchangeably of course) will be mobile; in other words, by '05 or '06 we will see Blackberries and other PDAs as essentially feed readers.