Live Blogging the HLS Panels

Over at Legal Theory Blog, Larry Solum is doing a great job keeping up with the various presenters of the bloggership conference.  I had my exam to administer yesterday and so wasn't able to hustle up to Beantown in time to witness the events, but I had the chance to read a bunch of the papers, which some of you will enjoy. For instance, in her paper, (blog-loving anti-blogger) Kate Litvak shrewdly notes that one of the downsides of blogging as a scholarship medium is that there are no penalties to being silent in response to other peoples' scholarship efforts on blogs. She is surely right, but I wonder if sometimes less is more. Great feedback is wonderful to have and it's a super thing if we can get people to comment on works in progress.  But it's a bit oppressive to feel that readers and writers must peacock with our playmates by feeling the need to always have to pipe up, lest one feel, um, inadequate.  At least here on these pages, the conversation is opt-in, and thus a little more amped-down.  Not entirely a bad thing, methinks.

Today's meme, btw, is Orin finished up his presentation to thunderous applause. When the guy begins his presentation by checking his Sitemeter hits and presenting slides wryly titled: How Email is Changing Legal Scholarship, it's hard to blame the adoring masses  :>)