Legal Commentary

--At the KC Star (via Above the Law): Fledgling lawyers start law firm after failing to find jobs. http://tinyurl.com/azt7pb

--At PrawfsBlawg: should students and professors socialize via Facebook? http://tinyurl.com/dmtd8f

--Daughter Lydia just texted me from France to get an answer to a question for her college's "trivia night." Technology is crazy.

--Harlequin giving away books for iPhone's Stanza app. http://tinyurl.com/b2s3ox. Q: where *do* romance readers intersect with iPhone users?

--Idea for mega-bloggers: Make your blog available via Kindle. http://tinyurl.com/bkvqnl. You get royalties too.

--Report: Charter preparing for bankruptcy. http://tinyurl.com/cgc8wk. The excitement about the IPO in St. Louis 8 years ago? Ancient history.

--http://twitpic.com/1b9c1 - Mississippi River, all frozen up near St. Louis, as seen on the way to my office.

--Budding lawyer-novelist? See the Amazon/Penguin contest. http://tinyurl.com/b7ax35. Need help writing? See here: http://tinyurl.com/cwwpr4

--More Congressional Reps than Dems on Twitter. http://tinyurl.com/d6j6l3

--Not good news for St. Louisians--our largest hotel to be auctioned on courthouse steps. (alt. tweet: buy a hotel!) http://tinyurl.com/cpfg5r

--Google Earth 5.0 beta released, apparently "looks incredible." http://tinyurl.com/cbmpm8

--FRCP and other rules available for iphone, cheap. Read more at iPhone JD: http://tinyurl.com/bsrkht

--Well-written Blawg Review #197 at Legal Blog Watch. http://tinyurl.com/dkwjb5

--At the New Yorker, Angell recalls editing Updike. http://tinyurl.com/b5kb6f

--http://twitpic.com/1avbf - S&L "firm meeting" at Starbucks in Ladue MO--and testing out Twitpic.

--From Times-Picayune, att'ys disagree about whether LA law allows for competing class actions in hurricane cases. http://tinyurl.com/aqx4df

--Rookie error from an old pro--why Grisham had to rewrite the first 100 pages of The Associate. http://tinyurl.com/ah8zsj

--Finished my weekly language lesson or "intercambio," an exchange of Spanish for English with a Mexican student living in St. Louis.

--Like legal documentaries? At Sundance, "Crude" concerns a huge class action filed in Ecuador against Chevron. http://tinyurl.com/ah4fnv

--A New York lawyer says no to Twitter in an age of "information overload." A well-reasoned argument? http://tinyurl.com/b7pkbe

--Returning to Buenos Aires in April! My last trip there was in October, when I did a mega-tips--and-photo-post, http://tinyurl.com/cazgrh.