Has Law Blogging Peaked?:
Peter Spiro, Marty Lederman, Dave Hoffman and others are wondering about this question over at Opinio Juris. I think I'll stick with the prediction I made in October 2005:
It's hard to predict these things, of course, but I would suggest a fourth future [for law blogging]: A continued increase in the overall amount of law blogging until we reach a natural equilibirum, and then a roughly constant amount of blogging with frequent turnover among active law bloggers. Here's my thinking. Right now law blogs are pretty new, and the number of law bloggers is increasing. But it's much easier to start a blog than to keep it up. A typical post might take an hour or so to research, write, and edit. And the better and more thoughtful the post, the more time it takes. Only so many people are willing to put in those hours on a regular basis, and members of thattwistedelite group presumably will change over time, too.
So for now, I get only search engine traffic; but it lands on quality, as it does with Eugene and Orin.
Give me a little time to make up for the loving I have missed, and I will be back.
Meanwhile, let this new Congress do better. Orin, I will hook you up with the new Rep. from Memphis. You will have fun. Be good for each other, as I know you can. Pelosi gave him Judiciary, btw. ;-)
Tell me do you agree its impossible for a black person in the USA to be racist because you buy into the phony power element to racism?
People who toss around charges of racism so easily cheapen the effect of such comments and thereby devalue the importance of whether there is real racism at issue or not. Its the boy who cried wolf syndrome.
Says the "Dog"
I'd also suggest that when Denise Howell (the coiner of the term "blawg") parted ways with Reed Smith we learned the limits of this form.