Weekly roundup of relevant legal blogging links from a once-and-future editor David Maizenberg:
BlawgConnect.2005 - Chicago. "the largest collection of law bloggers assembled to date under one roof"
http://www.inter-alia.net...
Sarah Kellogg's "Do You Blog?" the cover story from the DC Bar's Washington Lawyer site
http://www.dcbar.org...
"Legal Blog Article" by Ben Wickert, law student-to-be and editor of Ben's Law Blog
http://benslawblog.blogspot.com...
Corrante has just launched Between Lawyers, a new legal blog with a panel of well-known contributors
http://www.corante.com/betweenlawyers...
Ben Cogswill's Legal Ethics blog is focusing on "Legal Ethics + Legal Technology: A special week of blogging inspired by ABA TechShow 2005"
http://cowgill.blogs.com/legalethics...
Kevin Heller's "Belly Up To The Bar" - loaded with links
http://techlawadvisor.com...
Another item from the intersection of blogs and legal issues: Wall Street stock blogs, which according to Corante are edited by former analysts who dispense "daily advice on what companies are hot..."
Given the heightened enforcement environment in the securities trading industry, the SEC, DOJ and New York AG will probably be monitoring these blogs. What kind of blogging activities could raise a red flag? Like Election Blogs, the existence of special relationship between 1) the blogger, 2) an outside organization, and 3) the blog's messaging, could point to possible impropriety.
On the other hand, Wall Street stock blogs are a positive trend for an industry that has "taken a severe beating." They can be viewed as the next generation of popular business publications that flourished in the tech boom of the '90s, like Red Herring, the Industry Standard, and Raging Bull (all of which have gone micro).
Posted by AZ on March 17, 2005 09:22 AM | TrackBackLarry Bodine wrote in wondering if we knew how many legal blogs are in existence. It's an interesting question that is wide open to speculation. I don't think anyone can say for certain without conducting an extensive blawg census, but here goes.
According to one report at the Blog Herald, the total number of blogs in the world is greater than 34 million. Of that total, an estimated 14.5 million are English language blogs.
Beyond noting that Japan, France, the UK and Germany have made their mark on the legal blogsphere, I have limited knowledge of international blawgs. So, rather than make an outlandish claim using the worldwide estimates, I'll limit my pontification to the 14.5M number (which presumably includes blogs from the UK).
After researching a few relevant blogging centers (blawg.org, blogbook.org, my detod, lexblog and blogger), I generously estimate that one out of every 100 blogs could qualify as "law related." Note that "law related" is a broad term that includes the entire spectrum of blawgs (those edited by lawyers, professors, students, and other legal professionals) as well as political and personal blogs where law is frequently discussed.
Doing the math, 1% of 14.5 million is 145,000. One hundred forty-five thousand "law related" blogs in the English speaking blogsphere -- do you believe it? I'm not sure I do. I think the number of strictly legal blawgs is much smaller.
Did I mention that I'm not a licensed statistician?
Posted by AZ on March 16, 2005 11:11 AM | TrackBackFrom the More Soft Money Hard Law web updates, this piece by Bob Bauer touches on the pending "gloom and doom" FEC regulation of the Internet.
Note the Paid Bloggers section, which is now officially defined by the Commission as "an issue."
- D.M.
Posted by AZ on March 16, 2005 09:59 AM | TrackBackMy First Mine has an interesting post about a blogger who is quitting his day job.
"If blogging is business, pay me Not to Blog." - Anon.
Posted by AZ on March 3, 2005 11:45 AMAnother update to Hard Money and Political Retailing:
http://news.com.com/The+coming+crackdown+on+blogging
Posted by AZ on March 3, 2005 11:38 AM