Quotable Quotes at the Harvard Blogging Conference

“36 million page views; 600 U.S. law-related blogs; 235 U.S. law professor bloggers.” Paul Caron

“Long-form articles increase costs on the demand side. Short-form scholarship reduces costs. More costs, less readers.” Larry Solum

“Soon we will say of scholarship that if it is not on the Internet it doesn’t exist.” Larry Solum

“Compared to other developments in the legal academy, relatively speaking blogging is not that important.” Kate Litvak

“Blogging is an occasion for joy.” Paul Butler

“What if law review articles had sitemeters?” Paul Butler

“The poet who is not in trouble with the king is in trouble with her work.” Paul Butler

“You can fall over by bending over backwards, as well as by falling forward. You can fall over by not taking risks as well as by taking them.” Jim Lindgren

“Blogs are changing the legal landscape.” Ellen Podgor

“Cloistered scholars leave something to be desired.” Gail Heriot

“40% of law review articles are never cited by anyone. Most judges and lawyers have lost interest.” Gail Heriot

“I’m here to talk today about how email and listserves are transforming legal scholarship. Wait… I inadvertently grabbed my notes from that 1999 conference.” Orin Kerr

“Oral argument and appellate litigation is not scholarship either. But it is useful for scholarship.” Randy Barnett

“There are not enough incentives to be nice to one another in the legal academy. We undervalue celebration of other people’s work. Blogs should do that.” Michael Froomkin

“Blogs are great for micro-discoveries.” Eugene Volokh

“There is lots of agency slack and distrust of blogs, and blogs that stray further afield cast a pall on the entire blogosphere.” Larry Ribstein

“Sue a blogger and you will be gang tackled by bloggers.” Eric Goldman

“We have a romantic vision of blogging. Who are bloggers? 50% are teenagers.” Dan Solove

“Having written my article in bloggish form, I tried to do the talk in podcasty form.” Ann Althouse

“I have no idea what these people are talking about. What is a blog?” Harvard Law School Class of 1971 alum sitting next to me.

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