The recent Harvard law blog conference brought up the question, “Should blogging be fun?” Or, more importantly, “Can a fun law blog be scholarly?” At the conference, Ann Althouse http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2006/05/former_porn_sta.html stated that her blog was a perfect combination of fun and scholarship. While academics are free to pursue whatever kind of fun blog they want in their free time, many sticklers say a blog can either be fun or academic, but it cannot be both. Lawrence Solum of the Legal Theory Blog http://lsolum.blogspot.com/archives/2006_04_01_lsolum_archive.html#114625528226700393 says that while a scholarly blog can, technically, be fun, in order to compete with the abundance of law blogs currently on the Internet, a new law blog would have to “opt in,” or make the focus of your blog strictly serious. As for me, I prefer a nice balance between ghastly violence and hardcore nasty chat. That’s why I hang out on Judged.