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Blawg Review reaches 100th anniversary

Received an email this am from its annonymous editor that Blawg Review is publishing its 100th weekly edition.

Congratulations to the editor and all the lawyers who have volunteered to host a weekly edition over the last two years. Each week lawyers have busted their tails to share law blog posts of that week that they found interesting.

Now if we could get the editor to tell us who the heck they are and shed the confusing name ‘Blawg Review’ for ‘Law Blog Review’ by edition 200 we’d be making progress. ;)

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  • http://blog.bretttrout.com/ Brett Trout

    Kevin,
    Are you still going to be “Blawg” bashing a decade from now? I think, and hope, the bashing is really a sly nod to Google’s love of the term and simply a way to attract link love.
    I mean, this page alone as over ten uses of the term. How much could you hate it when it drives so much traffic your way. If you really wanted to make a statement, you would refuse to allow the term to appear anywhere on your site. I feel pretty comfortable even you are not THAT committed to the cause.
    The lady doth protest too much . . . methinks.
    Brett Trout

  • http://kevin.lexblog.com Kevin OKeefe

    Thanks for the comment Brett.
    No bashing though, just constructive criticism that the word ‘blawg’ is causing unneeded confusion when we already have a name – lawyer blog.
    We already have one newspaper reporter in Pittsburgh reporting that lawyer blogs are published so that consumers of legal services can access info and that ‘blawgs’ are for lawyers sharing information with each other and not to be viewed by the ‘public.’ I can only imagine what others think.
    I really feel that ‘blawg’ is just more of legalese, something that’s contributed to the poor image we have. And for marketing and business development using a term – blog – that your prospective clients use is the preferred route to go.
    Will I keep criticizing the name? Now and again. It’s a losing proposition though to expect those using ‘blawg’ to change. All I can do is advise prospective clients not to use the term and share that advise on the blogosphere with people who may view me as a trusted and reliable authority on lawyer blogs.
    Refusing to use the term on my site would be tough. Want me to use ‘it?’
    And sure I am going to use blawg now and again so that Google sees me referencing the term. That way people doing research on the term see my opinions.