Law Students

Crack For Bloggers, A Note On Our Mission

By Casebook Sherpa

This week I made a mistake - the second time I’ve made it really.

In a way, we opened this blog to goof off. I wanted to improve my web design skills and write about this all-consuming experience I was having. After putting up version 1.0 of the design, I found friends wanted to join in the fun. When things around here got serious, our goal was to focus on our law school experience with a hefty dose of sarcasm, snark, and tomfoolery. By and large, we’ve slowly begun to figure out how that works. And we’ll continue to do so.

But we had a relapse in two recent posts (Gong Show and Second Amendment). While I think what we’ve written is good, it’s not new or original or law-related or funny or entertaining or insightful - all qualities we hope define our writing here. For a blogger, politics is like crack or junk food - something eaten when hungry or bored or in need of a quick fix and instead of finding a good snack (nice piece of legal news or gossip), you go to the old standby (political screed). Trouble is, we’re not really that good at writing about politics and there are plenty of people much smarter that we are writing about it. To those put off by our political digression this week, we apologize.

Anyway, it’s been a learning experience. When we approach “serious” topics that have political overtones we will try to tackle them from a legal perspective, rather than debate the political calculus. These are the sorts of things I feel like we should be doing. We’ll have more fun this way and we think you will too.

Also, look for some fun new features coming soon to Fight The Hypo - at least a few design tweaks, launch of the shameless commerce division, petitions, and there are rumors that a love and law school column is in the makings.

Full post as published by Fight The Hypo on February 22, 2008 (boomark / email).