Additions to the Blawgroll

I really should update the roll more often. I’ve been a big fan of Mark Bennett’s Defending People and Gideon’s A Public Defender for a long time. Unfortunately, the way I have to update my ‘roll is sort of a pain in the ass… thus my gushing respect for fellow members of the blawgosphere is not always in line with the lineup down at the bottom right.

Both Gideon and Bennett are fine specimens of the “Practical Blawgosphere.” In other words, blawgs by people who practice law or provide useful legal knowledge. Gideon brings a compassionate, humorous, and poignant perspective to the criminal law edge of the practical blawgosphere.

Bennett invented the term practical blawgosphere, which he defined as: Blogs which are recently updated and focused on knowledge or ideas that are clearly useable in the practice of law; or potentially useable in the practice of law, along with a discussion of how they might be useable. Bennett’s now-famous manifesto, Welcome to the Practical Blawgosphere is a must read. For more on that subject, read Greenfield’s “Are Law Professors Afraid of the Practical Blawgosphere?“

Gideon, Mark, welcome to the Satyriconroll.