As If There Weren't Enough To Worry About

Add these to the list: whether you live in an elk free zone; whether your diaper of choice is thick enough to absorb snake venom. (Can you tell I just stumbled on the Reuters Oddly Enough page? Available in at least two flavors.)

Yeah, But

Kevin Heller has some very funny (and unfortunately perhaps dead on) responses to our recent Five By Fives about changes in the practice of law. He also has a son of many talents (including, apparently, a healthy chunk of Daddy's wit).

I Gotta Know

Just who is buying the Land of the Lost DVDs?? Speed Racer now, that's totally understandable, and I simply cannot wait to see Kimba again...er, introduce my son to Eiichi Yamamoto's fine work.

Noncommittal Though It May Be

...it still makes good copy: "Yes, the world's richest man may start his own blog" (The Seattle Times, Bill Gates could join the ranks of bloggers).

Full Service Blawging

Michael Hiltzek's Golden State column in today's Los Angeles Times (awkwardly titled though it is—"PeopleSoft Lawyer's Weblog Is Fresh Twist in Spin Wars;" best argument for "blawg" I've seen yet) ushers in a new era of client service for lawyers. Not only is it critical to know who will try your case, it's important to consider who will blog it. The article features PeopelSoft Lawyer Gary Reback, whose View from the Court reports on the DOJ v. Oracle trial are featured prominently on the PeopleSoft site. Mr. Hiltzek is mistaken that this is the first weblog to cover a single high profile case (see for example So Cal Lawyer on Scott Peterson, and Kerry Sipe on John Allen Muhammad, though I can't tell if anything ever came of Craig Silverman on Kobe Bryant), but it may be the first to put a company's particular gloss on the proceedings. The most interesting bit's at the end, where Hiltzek and Reback wonder what effect blogging might have had on the Microsoft antitrust case: "[T]he opportunity to shape the public's understanding of a complex business trial may be hard to pass up in the future."

For more on this see Ernie Svenson and Dan Gillmor.