edpoll@lawbiz.com (Ed Poll) — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:34:02 -0800

Kevin is right, blogging is only in its beginning stages. I see one lawyer after another becoming interested in blogging ... and the floodgates have yet to be opened wide.

dpr@dunn-carney.com (David Rossmiller) — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:16:33 -0800

Kevin spends more time analyzing the trends and checking the pulse than I do, so he may know better, but I'm skeptical that the numbers will increase that rapidly. Lawyers are for the most part a reactionary group and most would, in my opinion, pass up a chance at increased money or status if it meant no extra work or not taking a risk that might make them look foolish. Doesn't mean I agree, however, that legal blogging has passed its peak -- that's like someone in 1912 saying flying is past its peak, or a guy in 3000 B.C. with a stone axe saying technology is past its peak. At some point, the folks who couldn't tell you what a blog is or can't look up a website without help from the techs will be gone, and will be replaced by folks who feel completeley comfortable communicating and sharing information on the web; indeed, who don't see it as an option but a necessity of staying credible. That being the case, it sounds kind of silly to say the glory days of legal blogging are over. The pack will always go where convention tells them to go, it will just take some time for blogging to become the convention. How much time, I don't know.

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