Ben Cowgill and Joel Schoenmeyer have dug up, exhumed, disinterred and
uncovered the moldly corpse of third-party weblog content over the past two
days. And, I’m glad they did. Joel wrote “Blogs and Ghostwriting,” at his
Death & Taxes Weblog, and Ben wrote “Welcome to the (unfortunate)
era of prefabricated blawgs” (March 13, 2006) and “Just as we suspected:
LexBlog has ushered in the era of stock content on blawgs” (March 13,
2006), at his eponymous Cowgill on Legal Ethics.
They’ve both done a good job of raising issues and concerns, and Ben has
clearly donea lot of homework. Although I can’t work on this today, I was
at the forefront of the Ghostbuster-blogger movement two years ago. See:
- Ghosts Will Kill the Legal Weblog Community
- Selling the Perception of Expertise
- Lawson Not Spooked by Ghosts
- Lively Debate Over Ghostly Weblogs
- making sausage and weblogs
goblins at the door
in the darkness behind them
a cigarette flares
from Some of the Silence
Shoots of new grass
over a crumbling tombstone
the faded epitaph
autumn evening —
yellow leaves cover
the plot reserved for me
An obituary
circled in the newspaper–
pale winter moon
Scent of the dead horse–
descending vortex
of vultures
Rebecca Lilly – Shadwell Hills (Brook Press, 2002)
“An obituary” – edge of light: (RMA 2003); Acorn 10

On a possibly-related topic: someone Googled expert opinion on eternal life>
today, and the 5th result out of 3.5 million was our post on the new pope’s
life expectancy, with a pointer to RiskProf Martin no-ghost Grace, who was
doing some musing on eternal life expectancies. I wonder if LexBlog has any
expertise on the afterlife – or can get us some.