Following on the success of the Berkman Symposium on blogs and legal scholarship (on which I have already commented on this site), there comes the welcome news of advance plans for a Legal Blogging Conference in London, currently pencilled in for late April/early May. In the meantime, lawyer/bloggers should watch that space. Maybe somebody there will be able to tell me why I’m doing this?
Ah, an excellent question with no single answer. Vanity, social conscience, marketing, boredom?
For some of us all the above!
The question ‘why am I doing this?’ sounds like the making of an excellent workshop at the conference (which I came across last week and mentally filed under ‘must do something about that’). An interesting tool could be the Pecha Kucha format, with some connection to recent posts as a way into the purpose/motivation of legal bloggers….