Blog of the week VI
Instead of he usual critiqued site, our blog of the week this time is an event, a conference. Called "Revenge of the blog", it's being hosted by the Information Society Project at Yale University. The project's goals are to promote democratic values in a digital age, to study how new media alter culture and society and to investigate how law and technology interact. Sadly, I can't be there but the "blogosphere" will resonate with the results over the weekend.
The keynote address will be delivered by Glenn Reynolds the Tennessee law professor whose Instapundit blog now attracts 75,000 visits a day. That, by the way, is a larger digital circulation than most US newspapers, and probably a larger readership. The first session of the day is called "Law and Blogs" and will be moderated by Ernest Miller (LawMeme). The panelists are:
- Denise Howell (Bag and Baggage)
- Jenny Levine (The Shifted Librarian)
- Seth Schoen (Consensus at Lawyerpoint)
- Donna Wentworth (GrepLaw)
The afternoon session kicks off with a talk by that trailblazing blogger whose postings now earn him a nice living at Slate, Mickey Kaus (Kausfiles), and the day ends with a star-studded "Blogs and Journalism" discussion. The moderator is Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto (LawMeme) and panelists are:
- David F. Gallagher (lightningfield.com) and The New York Times
- John Hiler (Microcontent News)
- Jeff Jarvis (WarLog: World War III)
- Josh Micah Marshall (Talking Points Memo)
The American writer A.J. Liebling once famously said, "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one," but owning a press is a rather expensive business. Because blogging isn't expensive it promises to democratize publishing and that's going to have far-reaching consequences for media and society.
