Sunday, April 29, 2007

Semi-obligatory comments on the local Blog Summit

Regarding yesterday's proceedings at Marquette University Law School:

1. Michael Caughill (the silent partner of Elliott Stearns) is a better man than I am for having a kid in his 40s. He won't regret his decision.

2. Funniest comment of the day: Ed Garvey's statement that most of the major newspapers in Milwaukee are "right wing."

3. Most disturbing: Garvey's suggestion that the right wing blogosphere is bought and paid for by rich Republicans. If that's so, I'm getting stiffed.

4. Most condescending: Eugene Kane's assertion that he is the only black male blogger that does not just tell white people what they want to hear. I do not share the Wisconsin right blogosphere's antipathy for Kane, but that's a cheap shot at James Harris who I assume really believes what he writes.

5. Most enterprising blogger: James Wigderson who actually passed out blogging business cards to every attendee before the event started.

6. Most discerning: Christian Schneider, the blogger formerly known as Dennis York, apparently shares my enthusiasm for The Wire. I guess that's unimportant but it is a tease for a post that I'll put it up later today.

7. I have always liked the GOP3 blog at Marquette, but now that I know that 2L Daniel Suhr had the good sense to register for my course on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, I regard it with new respect.

8. There is not much to say about the program. As always, Mike Gousha did a great job. As for the comments, my own sense is that blogosphere remains a bit self-referential and focused on what type of phenomenon it is as opposed to the "MSM." I think the latter concern is totally 2006. Blogs are not going away and they are not going to be co-opted (in the aggregate anyway) by any dark force - be it political parties or what the left sees as this monolithic blob called "corporations." The real question for bloggers is: what are you trying to accomplish (even if it is only your own self-gratification) and how do you propose to do it?

9. Once again the best part of these things was to meet - or reconnect - with people. It is good to be reminded that people with whom you disagree - folks like Plaisted, Mathias and Bullock - are nice and likeable people.

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