{"id":4349,"date":"2004-02-07T21:24:52","date_gmt":"2004-02-08T01:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/02\/07\/disappeared-from-law-blog-cyb"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:59:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:59:03","slug":"disappeared-from-law-blog-cyberspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/02\/07\/disappeared-from-law-blog-cyberspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappeared from Law-Blog Cyberspace"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Call me naiveEsq <\/EM>for not expecting this.  I’ve recently discovered a big<\/EM> difference between lawyer weblogs that were created primarily as marketing tools and those written for the sheer joy of sharing ideas and information, or presenting a point of view:  The marketing and reputation-oriented lawyer weblogs appear to remove Comments, pings and blogroll listings that might make their “product” look less valuable or useful.  Of course, a lot of them simply don’t allow unfiltered comments or pings.<\/FONT><\/P>
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\"deleteKey  This has been on my mind the past couple of weeks, because I’ve seen a Comment or two, a TrackBack, and a listing of mine disappear from a couple of e-blawgs.  Frankly, this takes a lot of the fun and sense of community out of weblogging.  I guess that’s what happens when a great form of communication is turned into a “hot” marketing tool.  Maybe I’m just lucky to have it happen so infrequently, given my somewhat atypical views on lawyering and marketing.<\/FONT><\/P>
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Does anyone have thoughts or experiences to share on this topic?  (“Duh, David!” won’t help much, but won’t be deleted.)<\/FONT><\/P>
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P.S.<\/FONT><\/STRONG>  Going from watching your words to Word Watchers:  You ought to check out an interesting post from the non-censoring Evan Schaeffer, of notes from the (legal) underground<\/A>, titled Beware the Cynic Incubators<\/FONT><\/A>.  Evan warns of evil word-abusers and co-opters (especially bemoaning the fate of the terribly overused word “reform”).    <\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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