December 2008
The Blawg 100
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On our second annual list of the best legal blogs, just half of last year’s honorees make a return appearance.
What explains the high turnover? For one thing, every day new legal blogs are started, and some existing blogs—including some that appeared on last year’s list—cease to be updated regularly. Plus, some of the upstart blogs are just plain better than some that made the cut last year.
This year, blogs that aren’t updated at least weekly—no matter how interesting—often didn’t make the grade. We put a premium on blogs that broke news in 2008, or were among the first to provide trenchant analysis of one or more breaking legal news stories. We also gave props to bloggers who made the most of audio and video (in our new podcast category) or social networking applications.
- Throughout this list, asterisks indicate blogs that were on our 2007 list.
In This Issue
Feature Section
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One-Hit Wonders
These blogs generated a lot of buzz in 2008, but they didn’t make it into the Blawg 100. And for whatever reasons, their moment seems to have passed.
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Social Promotion
Social network sites work for you, but only if you work at them.
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The ABA Gets Social
LegallyMinded.com is more than just the ABA’s entry into the social networking universe
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Ann Althouse Reads With an ‘Eye for the Bloggable’
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To Ernie Svenson, Blogging is ‘Largely a Selfish Activity’
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Paper Chase is ‘Doing Public Service,’ Sharing Info Real Time and For Free
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A Career Seized by the Horns
How to find fulfillment in only 18 hours a day.
ABA Connection
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Malpractice Minefield
Five top traps—and how to avoid them.
Opening Statements
- Transfers Bolster Elite Schools
- Kid Stuff
- No Food or Water Required
- Bar-ista
- Extreme Makeover: Textbook Edition
- BlockStoppers?
The National Pulse
Supreme Court Report
McElhaney on Litigation
Business of Law
- Economic Bust, CLE Boom?
- Free and Clear
- Problems Amid the Promise
- It’s Time to Talk Audio/Video
- Down in the Data Mines
