Have court, will cavort. My first-time-visit weblog of the week
is Have Opinion, Will Travel. Naturally, I found it perusing today’s
Blawg Review #27, at Lisa Stone’s Inside Opinions
HOWT‘s anonymous proprietor gives the impression of
being a jurist, but I can’t vouch for that. I can, however, vouch for his
fine-tuned sense of what is fun and interesting (at least to fossils in
my age cohort). There’s also enough meat there for those who insist
on serious content at a weblog. I plan to revisit a discussion on how
public judicial discipline hearings should be, a topic occasionally on
In a post titled What Would Rumpole Say?, HOWT informed
us that UK defense lawyers were about to engage in a
walkout, to protest the failure to receive legal aid fee hikes
since 1997 for criminal trials that last less than 10 days.
Last year, your Editor confessed to enjoying an audio book
involving the beloved and crusty Rumpole, noting he was
an “indigent defense lawyer who takes every case.” Of
course, that was in the context of the Massachusetts
Bar Advocate boycotts — a subject that has given me
more than enough agita for this Century, thank you. Let’s
hope some ethics-minded barrister will take up the cause
over in Britain.
If you haven’t discovered Have Opinion, Will Travel yet,
get over there and give it a look.
Since we mentioned Blawg Review above,
and Lisa Stone, and having opinions, I should probably
say something about the new arrangement making Blawg
Review part of the Law.com Weblog Network. Although
my initial reaction is not extremely negative (like that of
Colin Samuel), I’m not certain that there will be much
effect where it counts — actually resulting in more click-
throughs and new readers at the featured weblogs, and
not just bringing more people to glancce at the weekly
compilation of legal weblog posts. Only time will tell.
On one score though I do have an instant opinion:
That big, ugly Law.com ad box, which is required “soldsign”
of all Network members, can be found in the Sidebar
or Margin of prior members. It may indeed be a bit
less obtrusive at Blawg Review, where it is placed
after the introductory post. Nonetheless, invading the
body of the weblog seems to make it — on principle —
more obnoxious. Sorry, “Ed,” I know you tried. (see
while selling his dumplings
and such…
blossom viewing
morning frost–
yet still a child
sells flowers
“soldSignN”
October 10, 2005
have gavel, will travel
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I wouldn’t really call my reaction to the Blawg Review alliance with Law.com “negative”; my comments were meant sarcastically more so than as criticism. I would say that I’m ambivalent about the connection of Blawg Review to the Law.com network (their sites seem worthwhile on the whole) and that I’m dubious about how much traffic this will drive to the host each week. Perhaps this ongoing relationship will push more readers to each week’s issue consistently throughout the week, rather than in a spike, like the referrals from other blogs (including my own) do each Monday. Perhaps it will have no effect. Whatever the practical effect of the change, I think it’s indisputably positively in at least one respect — it reflects a clear recognition of the quality of Blawg Review and the amzing efforts of the mysterious, anonymous Editor and his/her cohorts on the editorial team over the past several months. My congratultions go out to them!
Comment by Colin Samuels — October 12, 2005 @ 9:48 pm
I wouldn’t really call my reaction to the Blawg Review alliance with Law.com “negative”; my comments were meant sarcastically more so than as criticism. I would say that I’m ambivalent about the connection of Blawg Review to the Law.com network (their sites seem worthwhile on the whole) and that I’m dubious about how much traffic this will drive to the host each week. Perhaps this ongoing relationship will push more readers to each week’s issue consistently throughout the week, rather than in a spike, like the referrals from other blogs (including my own) do each Monday. Perhaps it will have no effect. Whatever the practical effect of the change, I think it’s indisputably positively in at least one respect — it reflects a clear recognition of the quality of Blawg Review and the amzing efforts of the mysterious, anonymous Editor and his/her cohorts on the editorial team over the past several months. My congratultions go out to them!
Comment by Colin Samuels — October 12, 2005 @ 9:48 pm