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A Tainted Victory for TechnoLawyer

By Robert J. Ambrogi

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While we here at Legal Blog Watch were off holiday-ing, the ABA Journal wrapped up voting for readers' favorites among its 2009 Blawg 100. Today, the ABA Journal editors posted the final results. In the technology category, the top vote-getter was TechnoLawyer Blog. But it is a tainted victory, at best. Two days before voting was to close, Neil Squillante posted an offer on TechnoLawyer Blog to award $500 to two people and $100 to five others who cast their votes for him. "Vote for TechnoLawyer Blog, send us an email message, and win one of seven cash prizes," he declared. Squillante's offer prompted a New Year's Eve post from Scott H. Greenfield declaring the death of the beauty pageant, at least for law blogs. Neil Squillante at Technolawyer wants to win his category so badly that he has started a sweepstakes with cash prizes, substantial cash prizes, for those who vote for Technolawyer. Nothing that I've experienced as a part of the blawgosphere, as a blawg in the ABA Journal Blawg 100, has made me more ashamed than this. This is what has become of the blawgosphere. The marketers, hypsters, snake oil salesmen have fought hard to change this...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).