Final Blogbook Post

“A couple of years back, when we started The Blogbook, there were very few legal blogs. Now of course there are thousands, including blogs from big firm lawyers as well as solos. Our original intention for this blog was to try to figure out if legal blogging was any different from ‘regular’ blogging, and if so, how. As I wrote that first week in our FAQ: “It’s about whether or not a blog becomes something more than a blog when it is written by a lawyer, an expert in his or her specialty, and features commentary on cases and legislation.” In other words, do practicing lawyer-bloggers have any special obligations or rules that they must follow that distinguish them in any way from every other blogger? We used the pastiche of the Blue Book (“Fair Use!” we said – knowing the point was highly debatable) to elicit responses (and we got ‘em). The long and short: nobody wants “rules” or ev…