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Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Blogospherics
Orin Kerr asks:
[S]omeone needs to come up with a name for discussions about the blogosphere's gender/political/racial breakdown. These sorts of questions seem to pop up pretty frequently, and always lead to lots of discussion. Ideas, anyone?
I recommend "blogospherics," which I arrive at by combining "blogosphere" with "demographics."
Posted by Daniel Solove on June 7, 2005 at 10:03 PM in Blogging, Daniel Solove | Permalink
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I like "blogographics" for the repeating 'g" creating fun with phonemes.
Mary Katherine, I am not certain if this suggestion for a term was specifically aimed at protected classifications. Consider that the political leanings of the various blogs inspired this post at the VC. I thin kthe list includes some equal proteciton classes but I question whether that was the impetus behind the coining of blogographics.
Posted by: Joel | Jun 8, 2005 9:31:22 AM
I think what it is called is not as significant as the fact the majority of the legal profession when considering race/gender/politics or any other "worthy" protected classification, always leaves out disability -- the "Mindset" I believe the U.S. Soliciter General's briefs mentioned in Medical Bd. of California v. Hason and Tennessee v. Lane.
Posted by: Mary Katherine Day-Petrano | Jun 8, 2005 12:25:02 AM
That should be blogographics, not blogospherics. Not that I dislike your suggestion Dan.
Posted by: Alan | Jun 7, 2005 11:23:14 PM
Nobody likes blogospherics? But it has such a nice ring to it.
Posted by: Daniel Solove | Jun 7, 2005 11:22:23 PM
Blogfiling/Blogfile. profiling plus blog.
Posted by: Christine Hurt | Jun 7, 2005 11:17:50 PM
Blogospherics
Posted by: Alan | Jun 7, 2005 11:02:18 PM
or demoblogics?
Posted by: Dan Markel | Jun 7, 2005 10:39:35 PM
how about demospherics?
Posted by: Dan Markel | Jun 7, 2005 10:39:15 PM
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