Blogosphere

A few days ago, Rachel Humphrey Fleet started a blog called The Compelling Brief Blog, which was apparently going to be all about writing legal briefs. Her first post was called "Tweeting the Judge: How Legal Writing is Like Social Media." (For the moment, it's available in the Google cache here.) The post caught the eye of Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice, who … [Read more...] about Surviving Scott Greenfield

Back in 2007, author Mark Helprin wrote a New York Times op-ed in which he bemoaned the lack of a permanent copyright. I responded to it, as did rather a lot of other people. In my response, I called part of his argument "pure nonsense, bordering on outright lies." Apparently, many other people used far harsher language, because Helprin later wrote a book (Digital Barbarism: A … [Read more...] about We’ve Always Been Here

The AP's Deborah Yao explains: The Federal Trade Commission will try to regulate blogging for the first time, requiring writers on the Web to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products. The FTC said Monday its commissioners voted 4-0 to approve the final Web guidelines, which had been expected. Violating the rules, which take … [Read more...] about Bloggers Are In For Some Federal Entanglement

One of the recent kerfuffles in the legal blogosphere (or, if you must, the blawgosphere) is about anonymity. On blogs. Yeah! I know! But they all sound so serious! Dan Hull started it (this time) with his declaration that What About Clients was now a "Wuss-Free Zone." Effective July 1, 2009, and absent compelling reasons, this blog will no longer print any comments of … [Read more...] about The Blogger Identity: Claims

In a comment to an earlier post about USLaw.com, someone calling themselves "d." wrote: There is still a nofollow tag, at least on links to Scott's most recent post (or most recent as of a few minutes ago).... it seemed from comments at SJ that the nofollow tag was an issue in terms of something technical I do not understand. I'm not a search engine guru, but let me take a … [Read more...] about USLaw.com and “nofollow”