LazyBlawg sounds really nifty. It's kind of like a call for papers, except applied to blogs. You ping the site with your post, which adds an excerpt to the collaborative blog/feed, people visit the blog/feed and are able to comment on the excerpt or ping it with their reply.
Even better, I now know about Tech Law Advisor! It's not one of those sites I've visited before and neglected to bookmark, it's that I've not seen it before today. I need to get out more.
You're back! I'd worried.
Large chunk of fun from
http://medpundit.blogspot.com/2003_01_12_medpundit_archive.html#90197480
Lawyerly Reflections: Some reflections on the law and lawyers, from a lawyer:
Musings such as yours on lawyers kept me in hot water during law school. The law in america is a 12th century construct with overlay of high middle ages guild thinking and a religious gloss over it. Lawyers can best be thought of as "free companies" ie mercenary knights of the 12-14th centuries. It believes in trial by combat(the adversarial process), the duty to zealously defend the client, no duty of the attorney to tell the truth(they are not under oath), a referee who can reverse any decision if it does not feel right ( equity taking the role of the archbishop), protection of the professionals
(lawyers and judges) from the rules imposed on the rest of society(the serfs or us), and a refusal to acceed to control from outside the caste (the supreme court is always right, especially when its wrong). I often contended that the legal cannons are an almost perfect definition of evil, ie no
responsibilty for any of your actions no matter how reprehensible(I was only following orders). The legal process has not yet come to grips with the enlightnment or scientific revolutions. Most legal process is indistinguishable from the process of the middle ages. A telling point on legal ethics is that all law reviews check each footnote in a legal article because of how commonly lawyers lie about facts. Anglo-american law holds that the highest right anyone has is the right to sue anyone else for anything. That actually trumps everything else. The judges view law written by the legislature as suggestions, after all only the judges can say what it really means. A bad legislative law can be reversed, reversing a bad supreme court is almost impossible.
Thanks for the link (and now I have found you). I think we should have Lazy Blawg up and running soon. If not on its own site then as part of the LazyWeb. Your site design is great, totally original. I've added you to my aggregator and look forward to reading your site regularly. From the few I've just read -- I'm excited.
Posted by: Kevin Heller on January 18, 2003 10:28 PMWhat the man said (Kevin). He's all IP lawyer and keeps nudging me to carry on, which is good (Unlike them rich and squirrely IP guys, we Int/Crim Law guys are lazy slobs). Ping and Classification now work, my biggest challenges are the RSS scraper (turn non-RSS into RSS) and making sure you get meaningful errors and success codes back, when pinging. I also work on BackTrackBack, a way to trackback ping the original site as soon as a comment is posted.
Posted by: Jonas on January 21, 2003 02:13 PM