Alex Wade in Times Online looks at blawging: “only a handful of legal practitioners maintain blogs”.

No way! Sure only a handful of law firms maintain firm-branded blogs, but as we on Binary Law all know, maybe half the hundreds of UK blawgs out there are by practitioners; and let’s not forget to mention the academics, pupils and others in the legal world who are blogging good stuff. Go make your case.

By Nick Holmes, 21 August 2008
Filed Under Law blogs, Blogging 

Comments

12 Responses to “Behind the times”

  1. Steve Matthews on 21 August 2008 4:38 pm

    Not much different over here… *very* common for reporters to look at the top law firm websites, see zero links to firm sponsored blogs, and make the broad assumption that no one is blogging.

    And then sometimes they get it right too…

  2. Nick Holmes on 21 August 2008 5:26 pm

    Ah, I guess they follow Stem blog!

  3. Martin George on 21 August 2008 6:59 pm

    Not only that, but the reporter’s list of the ‘Best of the Blogs’ includes one, Law and Tax, that has not been updated since 8th February 2007, and only has a handful of entries overall.

    Someone clearly hasn’t done their homework.

  4. Geeklawyer on 21 August 2008 8:55 pm

    Yea, and they claimed I rant. Sheesh, talk about inaccurate

  5. Nearly Legal on 21 August 2008 11:00 pm

    @Martin. Quite.

  6. Simon Deane-Johns on 22 August 2008 4:52 pm

    Must’ve been a slow news day with a short deadline.

  7. Charon QC on 23 August 2008 2:04 pm

    Excellently shoddy article - minimal research… perhaps Wade could not be bothered to Wade through blogrolls…. it matters not… we know we are blogging… mind you, I really must try to address the issue of shoehorning a bit more law in - but at least my podcasts are vaguely sensible!

    The question is…. was Geeklawyer involved in this!

    A good bank holiday weekend to one and all.

    I shall, of course, be cancelling my subscription to The Times :-)

  8. Andrew Keogh on 25 August 2008 2:13 pm

    Must try harder.

    See me.

  9. CyberPanda on 4 September 2008 8:59 pm

    The article`s persistent inaccuracies which have been chronicled in many of the posts before mine, quickly leads the more informed reader to give up altogether on reading the rest of it! Pity that the less informed readers will actually think that this is a reflection of the true state of play in the online world. Let`s hope that the next article on this topic will be based on solid and cogent research… Here is hoping!

  10. Iain Nisbet on 4 September 2008 9:56 pm

    No Scots Law blawgs mentioned either, not even mine (sobs).

    Iain Nisbet
    Absolvitor.com

  11. Robert Goddard on 4 September 2008 10:21 pm

    I’ve only just started a blog but it does appear that legal academics in the UK have been slower off the mark compared to their US peers. This said, I’m surprised that the excellent Scots Law News (http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/sln/) was not mentioned in The Times article.

  12. Mike on 4 November 2008 11:44 pm

    No clinical negligence blawgs mentioned either.

    …but I suppose thet can’t list everything

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