California Lawyer Magazine

California Lawyer Magazine: "Rants, Rulings and Recipes Rants, Rulings, Recipes Lawyers and other legal professionals speak their minds on the Web By Susan E. Davis If you're like most of us, the idea of sifting through more information-in addition to the voice-mail messages; email messages; listserve digests; legal rags; and newspaper, radio, and television reports you're already filtering each day-could be enough to send you screaming off into the nonwired wilderness (if one still exists). But for many lawyers across the country, a whole new digital frontier is now beckoning: the land of the not-so-nicely-named 'blog' (which stands for 'Web log'). Part personal diary, part legal commentary, and, sometimes, part gossip column, blogs are now taking the online legal world by storm. In fact, the savvy name for a legal blog is 'blawg' (get it?), and hundreds now exist to address-and receive commentary on-legal topics ranging from appellate proceedings to water law, and from the nitty-gritty details of the Scott Peterson case to philosophical questions raised by copyright disputes on the Web. ..............."