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Is Blogging Dead?

By Eric Lipman

And if it is, can I go back to bed? I raise the question because some esteemed legal bloggers have been chewing on it recently (that's a legitimate basis, right, Bruce?). Bob Ambrogi, who in the not-too-distant past patrolled the hallways here at LBW, proclaimed on Wednesday that "reports of blogging's death have been greatly exaggerated," and, as evidence, cited 15 legal blogs of relatively recent vintage that he believes to be of value to the legal community. Scott Greenfield took issue with Bob's proclamation yesterday. Obviously, not with the notion that legal blogs continue to exist, and people keep right on starting up new ones, but with the notion that many of them serve a useful purpose. Here are Scott's thoughts on a random sample of the 15 blogs Bob listed: What I found was distressing. No conversation. No synergy. Limited analysis and little effort. But what struck me clearly between the eyes is that the ones I looked at could have been taken out of the social media marketer's handbook. Trying to look informative, these were created for the purpose of self-promotion, marketing. Having clicked on a couple of the links myself (no way of knowing if they're...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on September 03, 2010 (boomark / email).