Now that I'm a blogger, I thought I'd spend a little time trying to figure out it's all about. It turns out that most bloggers spend much of their time talking about other blogs. I spent a little time looking around for blogs I thought might be interesting to our community and came up with these. I'd love to hear what other blogs people in the community find interesting.
For a long time the only blog I've paid any regular attention to is the Boing Boing Blog (http://boingboing.net) a directory of wonderful things. It has nothing to do with legal aid, but it exhibits a great attitude and champions a lot of the things I believe are important in information technology.
The Legal Aid University blog (http://www.legalaiduniversity.org/resources/blog) sadly fell moribund, even before LAU was forced to abandon it's claim to universityhood and became the Center for Legal Aid Education. Will Hornsby's blog The Boundaries of Legal Marketing (http://www.willhornsby.com/) is another blog with a good idea that isn't kept up.
It is a lesson that we here at NTAP need to learn. Blogging by its nature requires regular attention. I'm a little concerned that the last three blog entries here are my own.
shelp: the Self-Help Law Express (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/shlep/) is a blog dedicated to news, views and info on self-help law and pro se litigation. Its contributors are a team of self-help law advocates and practitioners, only one of whom has any substantial connection to the legal aid community. Orijit Ghoshal is a pro se Americorps VISTA working with Montana Legal Services Association and is an occasional contributor to the blog. The blog has featured Illinois Leagal Aid Online, Montana LawHelp and Self-HelpSupport.org.
The Lessig Blog (http://www.lessig.org/blog/) is the platform for Prof. Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School, champion of Creative Commons, "free culture", open source and reasonable copyrights. We need to listen to what he has to say.
The InternetBar.org (http://www.internetbar.org/mod-htmlpages-display-pid-8.html) has two blogs - one for its President Jeff Aresty, and one of its Executive Director Susan Waters. They discuss some interesting issues dealing with the on-line justice system, admitedly in its infancy, but which we in legal aid technology are helping to create.
Robert Ambrogi's LawSites (http://www.legaline.com/lawsites.html) tracks new and intriguing web sites for the legal profession. I like it because he has featured the Pine Tree Legal Assistance and HelpMeLaw websites on occasion. I'm sure it isn't just because he was Kathleen Caldwell's classmate in law school.
The Dennis Kennedy Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/) is probably the most widely known of the legal technology blogs. His most recent blog entries (as of 3/4/07) were on document assembly and open-source software in law firms - two subjects important to the legal aid technology community.
