Wednesday, September 01, 2004
blog: 4 letter word?
a comment i made on heidi bond's blog.
Blogs are strange that way. For most of us, there isn't enough of an audience to make it worth keeping up unless we write for that audience of one. A few superbloggers like heidi tony and will attain critical mass where they have regular readers and steady positive feedback. But they aren't wholly private either.I've had text from my work-related blog wind up quoted in an influential newsletter, generating a peeved call from opposing counsel.
Yesterday I got email with well-intentioned advice from a stranger who had read my myspace blog, where I mostly whine about my miserable life, because i find writing about it helps me work through things and get on with life.
I knew of a guy, jim bell of seattle, who went to jail after writing an academic treatise about killing people, that he had posted to the net."assasination politics" was a rather interesting elaboration of robin hanson's ideas about idea futures. the formal charges weren't about what he wrote, but what he wrote seems to have kicked off the investigation that resulted in his being jailed.
I agree with you that your blog here reflects well on your character and reputation capital ('wuffie' as cory doctorow of eff and boing-boing puts it in 'down and out in the magic kingdom, www.craphound.com/down.)It provides for icebreakers about chickens.
If asked, i could tell you the story of a woman who became an ostrich lawyer.
I do not know if there is a lot of chicken-related litigation, but you could own that niche. Perhaps if you asked your readers to send you interesting cases about chickens, you could build an open source restatement of chicken law, and professor froomkin would be likely to cite it in a footnote, and your professional reputation would be assured.
Does anybody have a good online treatise about cow law? In McIntyre v. Ohio, Justice Ginsburg, concurring, said, "In for a calf is not in for a cow", and I've spent years battling with the "reform" community about what that means, but lacked a good source of cow quotes.
a comment i made on heidi bond's blog.
Blogs are strange that way. For most of us, there isn't enough of an audience to make it worth keeping up unless we write for that audience of one. A few superbloggers like heidi tony and will attain critical mass where they have regular readers and steady positive feedback. But they aren't wholly private either.I've had text from my work-related blog wind up quoted in an influential newsletter, generating a peeved call from opposing counsel.
Yesterday I got email with well-intentioned advice from a stranger who had read my myspace blog, where I mostly whine about my miserable life, because i find writing about it helps me work through things and get on with life.
I knew of a guy, jim bell of seattle, who went to jail after writing an academic treatise about killing people, that he had posted to the net."assasination politics" was a rather interesting elaboration of robin hanson's ideas about idea futures. the formal charges weren't about what he wrote, but what he wrote seems to have kicked off the investigation that resulted in his being jailed.
I agree with you that your blog here reflects well on your character and reputation capital ('wuffie' as cory doctorow of eff and boing-boing puts it in 'down and out in the magic kingdom, www.craphound.com/down.)It provides for icebreakers about chickens.
If asked, i could tell you the story of a woman who became an ostrich lawyer.
I do not know if there is a lot of chicken-related litigation, but you could own that niche. Perhaps if you asked your readers to send you interesting cases about chickens, you could build an open source restatement of chicken law, and professor froomkin would be likely to cite it in a footnote, and your professional reputation would be assured.
Does anybody have a good online treatise about cow law? In McIntyre v. Ohio, Justice Ginsburg, concurring, said, "In for a calf is not in for a cow", and I've spent years battling with the "reform" community about what that means, but lacked a good source of cow quotes.
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