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     * "Blogging is a pie eating contest in which the prize is: more pie." (Via Scott Greenfield.)  Years ago Norm Pattis and I were in the zone, and had incredible readership at Crime & Federalism.  Modesty aside, the blog was hot.  Got too hot, and that's actually what burned us both out.  People wanted a piece of you.  They wanted links.  People would get angry when they'd post a comment that we wouldn't reply to.  (Comments are for you, not me, and thus I generally don't respond to them.  My turf is the post, and yours is the comments.)  People who had never done anything for you - and never would - would send you repeated e-mails asking why you haven't linked to their site.  It really made me hate people more than I already did.  If you think a link from me is so valuable, why not offer me a bottle of wine or something as thanks?  Or add me to your site, and throw some traffic my way?  Entitlement is not simply an issue of younger lawyers, as older - Boomer-age - lawyers were the worst offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on July 01, 2010 (boomark / email).