Wednesday, October 12, 2005

From Blawgs to Podcasts... the ever-changing face of communications

Now that blogging has firmly established itself within the legal community, the next techie trend or variation to cross over into the legal world is podcasting & vlogging. For a sampling of the legal podcasting boom, check out the Legal Talk Network's lineup of seven different podcasts. Vlogging refers to the shift by some bloggers to away from traditional html blogging to a video format. While a smattering of legal blogs, or "blawgs," have experimented with this format, it hasn't caught on yet.

Lawyers & Their Blawgs...

While hesitant to cite to the NY Times, they did run an interesting piece about the boom in lawyers writing blawgs... Apparently they think that lawyers just have too many words...

NY Times Article "Opening Arguments, Endlessly"