Osler's Razor

Blogs take too long to read. Kids these days tweet each other. And update their Faceybooks.

I do neither, because I'm anachronistic. Also, it would get in the way of my reading time. You know... books. Those things your Kindle is replacing.
 

I want more reports on your birfday! Because it did kind of look like you were walking with a limp.
 

I think it's pretty ironic for someone on the radio to say that blogs are dying.
 

Given I have allergies to newspapers (seriously); on-line news and blogs are becoming more important to me.

I read somewhere that Prof is walking with a post-birthday limp. Too much 'Risky Business' dancing on the sofa?
 

I would suspect that osler and Mr. CL partied into the night and now osler is limping cause his Groove Thang got over shaken. Word.
 

Students have been scared into believing that personal blogs are detrimental to employment prospects. I say poppycock.
 

Will is right- the powers that be(tm) have convinced law students that every employer spends hours googling you and will read every blog entry you've ever written. While it's true that posting controversial stuff on your blog can be detrimental to your employment chances, it's common sense not to post super-outrageous stuff on the internet, just as it's common sense not to say super-outrageous stuff around your professional colleagues (oops).

Blogging is a great way, in my opinion, to distinguish yourself from every other person in the legal world, even if your blog is not work-related. I guess what I am saying is that I really hope any of my potential employers are into zombies.
 

My blog now has just over six hundred entries since I started in a couple of years ago--some good, some bad, but it is an interesting time capsule of what is happening in my life. I love it. Blog on!
 

If my employers read my blog (and I'm reasonably certain they have) they'd know they hired a rather bland, boring nerd to be an appellate attorney.

In other words, I'm sort of the ideal candidate for that position.
 

Seeing as my employers (namely people around the street who need computer help and are willing to pay a local nerd to do it) are mostly quirky people who like odd humor and don't Google their employees, I'm fine running a blog with plenty of non-sequitors and controversial stuff.
 

I think Google's Buzz might be the next medium.
 

Blogs, like rock-n-roll, will never die.

Aside from that stubborn aphorism (or is it dogma?), I do have some serious backup in one of my favorite books of 2009: Scott Rosenberg's "Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, And Why It Matters." The book website is http://www.sayeverything.com/. (I'm very jealous of Rosenberg for not only crafting a great title but grabbing a great domain as well.) A fine executive summary of some of Rosenberg's main points--so fine that it impelled me to buy the book right away for my program's Kindles (would you like to borrow one?) can be found on the Salon.com site here: http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2009/07/06/scott_rosenberg/

Inspiring stuff.

I've also just done a talk for the CEFPI that drew on some ideas in Steve Johnson's "The Invention Of Air," a book on Joseph Priestley and his wide-spread influence on science, religion, and society. Johnson describes Priestley's habit of writing down everything as his thoughts came into his head, and preserving the thoughts in various notebooks, volumes he would consult often. Johnson writes that Priestley was able to develop large thoughts by "socializing with his own ideas." As someone who's searched his own blog many times to recapture a particular moment of inquiry or inspiration, I find the notion very resonant with my own experience, and I think blogging is a great way to circulate ideas among many readers as well as within oneself.

Blog on!