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"A survival guide to legal blogs and blogging"

Diesen Untertitel trägt ein Artikel im California Lawyer Magazin, dem sich wieder einmal entnehmen lässt, wie weit man in Sachen Blawgs andernorts bereits ist:

As best as most people can tell, the history of legal blogs began in July 1999 when two lawyers-a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and another attorney from New Jersey-launched Overlawyered (www.overlawyered.com). A Tennessee law professor picked up the trend two years later, launching Instapundit (www.instapundit.com) in August 2001. That fall Howell, who was then with Crosby Heafey Roach & May, launched Bag and Baggage (bgbg.blogspot.com).

By 2003 Blawg.com founder Bill Gratsch was able to create a directory of 57 legal blogs. Today, he estimates there are more than 2,000.

Others peg the numbers even higher. Tim Stanley, a FindLaw cofounder, is the CEO of Justia, a Mountain View firm that offers free case law, blog databases, and other legal resources online. He estimates there were about 200 legal blogs by mid-2003; 1,700 in 2006; 4,000 by last August; and upwards of 5,000 to date.

At the same time, legal blogs have grown in scope, versatility, and influence. By mid-2006, for example, courts had cited legal blogs in only a couple dozen cases (including a Supreme Court decision, United States v. Booker (543 U.S. 220, 278 n.4 (2005)). But today it's not at all unusual for courts to cite blogs, says Kevin O'Keefe, president of the Seattle consulting company LexBlog, which advises lawyers and law firms on designing, launching, and marketing blogs.

Eine grafische Aufbereitung der quantitativen Entwicklung der teilnehmenden Blawgs bei jurablogs.com wäre sicher auch ganz interessant. Hiermit angeregt.

Full post as published by jurabilis - German bLAWg from Berlin. on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).