Each week, it seems, there is new evidence of the strong power the blogosphere has on the legal and academic communities. Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground (http://www.legalunderground.com/) issued sort of an apology for a blog entry (http://www.legalunderground.com/2004/05/blog_your_way_t.html) he wrote last year doubting the power of blogging for law school professors.



Opinio Juris (http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1145640100.shtml) offered a thoughtful assessment of how blogging has changed scholarship. In response to "Blogging and the Transformation of Legal Scholarship" (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=898168#PaperDownload) from the Harvard Law School conference on blogging, Roger Alford of Opinio Juris argued that as blogs become more acceptable as a form of scholarship, they will become more formal and less shorthand.





The law blogosphere is huge and growing every day. It could reach capacity, according to Alford; and at that point, it will be nearly impossible to get noticed with a new scholarly blog.