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Individual and Group Blawgers Debate Merits of Individual and Group Blawgs

By Eric Lipman

Does the utility, entertainment value or thought-provoking quotient of a legal blog necessarily depend on whether it has a single author or is a group effort? As with everything else, people are entitled to their opinions. And some law blogger heavyweights apparently have some such opinions. Last week, Professor Stephen Bainbridge, reacting to the news that Professor Larry Ribstein has joined Truth on the Market, expressed his preference for single-author blogs: They tend to be more coherent. They have a real voice rather than a cacophony of noises. I feel a greater degree of personal connection to a sole-authored blog than to a group. The quality of group blogs tends to be uneven. And so on. Today, Professor David Zaring, one of the authors at The Conglomerate, sings the praises of group blogs, mostly his own: I think our particular group blog diversifies your reading risk quite nicely. You get meaty posts on a variety of issues from distinctive voices, we still have a coherent raison d'etre, and you're not in thrall to one voice that may eventually start banging on about something that you don't find very interesting. I'm not sure where Legal Blog Watch fits in on the...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on May 24, 2010 (boomark / email).