tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36762711.post1654903562542116983..comments2023-11-03T06:14:58.449-04:00Comments on Drug and Device Law: The Life Expectancy Of A Legal BlogRachel B. Weilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02251124525069607080noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36762711.post-68568834745482832882010-03-05T18:41:42.411-05:002010-03-05T18:41:42.411-05:00This is so true. Ive been doing this for years and...This is so true. Ive been doing this for years and have seen legal blogs go up and down at astonishing rates, unreal. Good read.San Diego DUI Lawyerhttp://www.sandiegoduilawyernow.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36762711.post-79636700493320285972009-09-01T01:04:39.193-04:002009-09-01T01:04:39.193-04:00Well I think most people doing the law marketing t...Well I think most people doing the law marketing thing misunderstand why most practitioners blog. Its locality based keyword targeting. For example I have www.memphisdivorceblog.com . I originally posted on it fairly regularly for about 9 months. Afterwards I stopped but it still got decent traffic. Who needs a readership? The people who want Memphis Divorce have an immediate time based need and probably aren't fans who want the latest updates. If I put up multiple websites I'd just look silly blogs allow you to target locality based keywords without looking like the total ho I am.attorneydavidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14974135291899656489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36762711.post-18054023391102761352009-08-24T22:57:25.854-04:002009-08-24T22:57:25.854-04:00FWIW, my eclectic blog, with a heavy dose of legal...FWIW, my eclectic blog, with a heavy dose of legal topics, is still at it after four years and more than 4,000 posts (in addition to about 800 posts elsewhere).<br /><br />The shortest lived blogs are those whose main aim is business development. You have to blog because you have something you want to say.Andrew Oh-Willekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36762711.post-86251219218500961732009-08-24T17:44:25.556-04:002009-08-24T17:44:25.556-04:00(Posting again, because I'm not sure the first...(Posting again, because I'm not sure the first one went through)<br /><br />Mark, I'm glad you admit your opinions here aren't empirically sound; after all, looking at only *seven* law blogs out of more than 2,500 that have been created since 2000 sure isn't enough for a statistical sample. <br /><br />I happen to be a bit of a freak for law blogs and statistics. On my blog Inter Alia (www.inter-alia.net) I've been featuring the newest law-related blogs since 2003 - and tracking all of those blogs on what is now a pretty long spreadsheet. As of now, more than 2,300 law blogs.<br /><br />I did some number crunching on them over this summer, and was surprised by my findings - that just over 48% of those 2,300+ blogs were still active - "active" getting a very liberal definition of "last post within the past 60 days." Calling a blog "dead" is tough, because lots of blogs come back and start posting regularly after having gone dormant for a few months. <br /><br />Further, of the blogs I've been tracking with "birth dates and "death dates," the average life of a law blog is much longer than you think - over <b>one year, ten months</b>. <br /><br />Finally, the stats show that the longest-lasting blogs are the ones that came along earliest - the percentage of law bloggers who started between 2000-2004 and are still blogging is much higher than those law blogs that have come along since then.<br /><br />While I think your general thought about why law blogs die is correct - that blogs are hard to maintain, and lawyers are busy people - I think the comment "law blogs don't last" doesn't give enough credit to the 1,100+ law bloggers (plus a lot I'm not tracking) who are still soldiering on in the blog trenches.<br /><br />(FYI - Dennis Kennedy and I talked about this on a recent podcast [http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/kennedy-mighell-report/2009/08/the-state-of-the-blawgosphere/]- we'll also be publishing these stats in a more public way in the next month.)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00385713375227786521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36762711.post-21336240896935271582009-08-24T12:09:46.156-04:002009-08-24T12:09:46.156-04:00Love it when you guys blog about blogging.Love it when you guys blog about blogging.Venkathttp://www.spamnotes.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36762711.post-37937788212170532832009-08-24T10:22:58.563-04:002009-08-24T10:22:58.563-04:00Maybe they should call it "slogging" int...Maybe they should call it "slogging" intead of "blogging". Seriously, do it because you love it, because maintaining a legal blog doesn't lead to fame and fortune - except for a favored few. Plus, it takes time and hard work to grow a readership, and in the meantime, a blogger can feel a bit lonely (and commentless)! Thanks for this post, tho' - it's both discouraging and inspiring for those of us who continue to hang in there despite the odds.The Goodwill Fangirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05845712888337339929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36762711.post-85682056592471491752009-08-24T08:18:28.294-04:002009-08-24T08:18:28.294-04:00It can not help the Law Professors' Blog Netwo...It can not help the Law Professors' Blog Network that for the vast majority of their offerings even when a link from somewhere else is obtained nobody comments. Many of the LPBN offerings also suffer for being pure regurgitation without a shred of editorial comment about the subject.<br /><br />Would you be so eager to keep up your efforts if you kept posting yet never got any sort of response? You get the occasional comment, and obviously far more private e-mail about your blogging work. The one LPBN blog I follow has an active (and rather cantankerous) small group of regular commenters. Even there the experience is hurt by poor software design, the system is limited to showing 25 comments maximum, yet will allow new comments to be entered after reaching that limit and add them to the comment count, just not display them.Soronel Haetirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639906179427371695noreply@blogger.com