Academic

Regular readers of this forum know that I am a big fan of Twitter. I'm constantly looking for followers for my Twitter page, and my two most recent tweets always appear at the top of this page.

Two competing essays published this week predict vastly different fates for Twitter. Consistent with my faith in Law 2.0 and the cathedral, the bazaar, and the School of Law, I'm inclined to believe that Twitter — or some other lightweight combination of social networking, links, and rapid searching — is here to stay. Indeed, I believe that Twitter will change legal education and the way law schools interact with their students, graduates, and community supporters, and I'm prepared and preparing to take action on the basis of that belief. But it's worth laying out both perspectives, the better to see which predictive point of view will eventually prevail. And it is quite possible, arguably even probable, that the truth incorporates a bit of both perspectives.