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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

 

       John Stevenson 

               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

 

 

  potluck

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.