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Getting bloggy at the ABA Journal

By Mark Obbie

Stephanie Francis Ward's feature on blogs' coverage of trials is a mishmash of anecdotes, barely making a point before rushing off to make another. Some points are old news -- Blogs are by anyone, including nuts! And they're opinionated! But they're here to stay, so we have to pay attention! -- and some are just plain old (yet another tale of KC Johnson's influence on the Duke rape case). But buried in the clutter and rambling anti-narrative is an interesting story, and question, about whether defendants will gain a strategic advantage by blogging about their cases in progress. With a little focus, that would have been worth reading more about.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on January 07, 2008 (boomark / email).