They say that over one million phone calls will go out to voters in New Hampshire between now and the first primary in January. That does not count personal visits to voters homes. It does not count TV, radio, newspaper and Internet ads. It does not include billboards. It does not include randomly being confronted on the street, at the grocery store, while shopping for Christmas or at church. It does not include the rallies and direct mail. And, it just has to be worse than what I remember because of the huge number of people running for president this year.
Well, I am getting a taste of what those in New Hampshire feel with the ABA Journal Blawg 100. Everywhere I turn, every email I get, every blog I visit is asking me to vote for them as the best lawyer blog in the universe. Do it for the solos! Do it for the well managed firms! Do it if you appreciate my blog! My mother will shoot me if I do not win!!
Oh, maybe I am jealous. I have a no count blog that is read by a few. I might be hawking my wares like everybody else if I had been nominated. But, we bitch and gripe about rating systems and rankings until we have a chance to beat out everybody else with some made up rating and ranking system.
What is the "blawg" stuff all about anyway? For years now the blog police have jumped on everyone that uses the term, stating that it is a made up term that means nothing. Now the ABA wants to call a legal blog a "blawg", and everybody is clamoring to be a blawg.
And, I do not understand the category that most of of the "blawgs" find themselves. "Lawyer's toolkit"? What is that? Do I need a toolkit? Are the "blawgs" mentioned like a screwdriver or a pair of needle-nose pliers? I do not think so. Why is it not more like the Lawyer's tackle box. I would seem more appropriate. Hooks to catch the surfer. You can talk about luring in the readers. There can be rods for reeling in the comments. You can make your own flies. You can talk about spinners in a whole different light.
Women lawyers might just prefer to call the category the Lawyer's caboodle. You know the destination for organization. The mixing and matching of colors and textures. Inside could be the ingredients to revitalize you. The "blawgs" can offer designer colognes, iron on patches of sorts, and dermablends. Makeup is always good because it just touches the surface. Not every lady is a tool belt diva lusting after the next power tool, gentlemen of the ABA. So the ABA should give the macho stuff a break. Appeal more to the women lawyers of the world. Besides, we all know they are smarter than us anyway.
Okay! Okay! If you will quit hounding me I will vote. But, do not expect me to tell you for which "blawg" I voted.
By the way, is there a place for a write in vote. I know a good little legal blog that was overlooked.
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