December 2008 Issue

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The Blawg 100

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One-Hit Wonders

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.

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Feature Section

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.

Social Promotion

Social network sites work for you, but only if you work at them.

The ABA Gets Social

LegallyMinded.com is more than just the ABA’s entry into the social networking universe

Ann Althouse Reads With an ‘Eye for the Bloggable’

To Ernie Svenson, Blogging is ‘Largely a Selfish Activity’

Paper Chase is ‘Doing Public Service,’ Sharing Info Real Time and For Free

A Career Seized by the Horns

How to find fulfillment in only 18 hours a day.

ABA Connection

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

Spy vs. Spy

Keeping a ‘Snitch’ from Being Scratched

Supreme Court Report

9/11 Fallout: The Next Round

McElhaney on Litigation

Organizing the Case

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

Ethics

Split Decisions

Your ABA

A New Mission

Special Export

It’s a Wrap

ABA Announcements

President's Message

Tee Up, Uncork and Enjoy a Good Read

Obiter Dicta

Carbonated Quarrel

Precedents

December 18, 1944

Letters to the Editor

On the Money, In the Hole

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