It is time to sign off with thanks to the Prawfs gang for giving me another outlet for musings. And I will conclude my month of sporadic guest blogging by expressing the hope that Daniel Solove, now of Concurring Opinions, will soon update his terrific law professor law blogger census. Dan’s latest version, version 4.3, is now more than four month old; a lot of notable new professor blogs (examples here and here) and notable new professor guest bloggers (examples at CO and on this blog) have come on-line since March.
And while I am giving Dan work, let me express my interest in seeing the census include info about the blogger status (i.e., tenured, untenured, unaffiliated) when she/he started active blogging. There has been much discussion about the possible perils of pre-tenure blogging, but I think most concerns are overstated. It might be interesting (and comforting to some) to see if numerous bloggers began while untenured.
Of course, all this blogger data may be a lot of work to collect. Perhaps, to aid Dan’s efforts, folks can note new law prof bloggers in the comments here.
Posted by Douglas A. Berman on July 31, 2006 at 09:17 PM
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I’m gathering info for a new census, which I plan to release in late September or early October. My current plan is to do it bi-annually in the middle of the fall semester and spring semester. As for tenure status, this is interesting but can be very difficult to figure out, and there are only so many hours in the day, so I’ll probably not attempt to do this.
Posted by: Daniel J. Solove | Jul 31, 2006 10:33:01 PM