Puerto Rico

Why are there so few legal blogs in Puerto Rico?

By Christian M. Frank Fas

It’s been more than a year since I started blogging, and I’ve realized that of the over 15,000 attorneys in Puerto Rico, only a handful of us have blogs.

Why is that?

Mario Nuñez recently gathered a list of blawgs for his Derecho 2.0 blog. Mario isn’t an attorney, but is fascinated with the capabilities that Web 2.0 has for dispersing information. His magnificent blogging projects are listed on his webpage Vida Digital and DigiZen

Here’s the list:

• BoricuaLaw by Christian Frank Fas

• Doing Business in Puerto Rico by Robert Alex Fleming

• Impericia Médica by José Fernando Velázquez

• Puerto Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

• Debido proceso de Ley by Rolando Emmanuelli Jiménez

• MortisCausa by Christian Frank Fas

Can you believe that there are only 6 blawgs listed? And 2 of them are mine?!

I’ll add a couple more to the list:

• Sus Preguntas de Inmigración by Fernando O. Zambrana

• Blog del Lcdo. Hugo Arana Torrós by Hugo Arana Torrós

If a Puerto Rico Legal Blog Convention was to be held today, and a panel of all the bloggers came to attendance, we wouldn’t fill up a small classroom. We’re in dire need of more legal bloggers. I’m sure that a few of my fellow attorneys that regularly read this webpage, and that have subscribed to the E-mail or RSS feed are excellent writers, and have plenty to share with both the general and legal community.

Go ahead! Start your blog NOW!

Do like I did, go over to Blogger or TypePad or Wordpress and start writing your day to day meanderings, or your insight to your cases, or anything that comes to mind. We all benefit from your input, and there’s enough room on the Internet to share, but please, clear your agenda for 10 minutes a day, and compose a paragraph of anything legal. You’ll thank me for it, and even if you don’t thank me, you’ll be much happier in the end.

Full post as published by Puerto Rico Law Blog on September 01, 2008 (boomark / email).