(Non-)Friday Drive-by: Surveying the blawgpocalypse…
I’m a huge fan of the other blawgers out there on the internet, and particularly enjoy them when I need to avoid doing pointless classwork 
Even though I don’t comment as often as I should on those folks’ entries, I still talk with several of them frequently on Facebook and Twitter — and even became “real world” friends with a couple 
So as I stumble across blawgs I haven’t read yet, they get thrown onto the blogroll for y’all to enjoy. And since I try to read all of them regularly I update the link list with one or more tildes (“~”) if something hasn’t been updated in awhile: ~ means a blog has been inactive for at least a month, ~~ for blogs that haven’t been updated in 3+ months, and ~~~ for the ones that are pretty much totally deactivated (no post in 6+ months, or password-protected, or shut down).
But given my sporadic and lengthy disappearances over the past two months, it’s been awhile since I had a chance to catch up on the blawgosphere…
…and an awful lot of them have disappeared since then 
About 15% of my blogroll now falls into “~~~” territory. The most high-profile is probably i don’t wear skinny jeans, a now-2L at NYU who blended his law school life experience with a truly impeccable wit.1
Together with Jansen and the Hoomster, idwsj rounded out my “Big 3” — the first law blogs I ever read, and the ones I still check almost compulsively. I saw one of his last posts speculating about the future of his blog, but I didn’t realize he had gone through with deleting it until my Top Sites screen in Safari showed a blank WordPress page 
idwsj isn’t the only one. Take a look at the September 2009 Top 10 law student blogs from Bitter Lawyer and a similar May 2010 Top 10 blog list from ClearAdmit:
- i don’t wear skinny jeans is deactivated (~~~)
- laughing: with or at you hasn’t been updated since April (~~~)
- Law Ingenue hasn’t been updated since January (~~~)
- Thanks, But No Thanks is a few hours away from “gone for the month” territory (~)
- Fresh Thought Soup has been gone for the month too (~)
- Similarly Situated hasn’t been updated since June (~~)
- Last Call for Recklessness is deactivated (~~~)
- Even Bitter Lawyer itself hasn’t been updated in over a month (~)
And then there’s the other 40%ish of the 149 entries in the blogroll who are in the ~ and ~~ range. Some of the folks who still write regularly have also pondered throwing in the towel, or scaled back due to drama.
I don’t know what’s brought on the mass extinction, but if any of you happen to read this entry: your blawgs are among the highlights of my day, so I’d really appreciate if you didn’t disappear on me 
Off to dinner with some of my NCCU Law colleagues, then back to study Evidence for the night. Have a great night y’all! 
- To this day idwsj’s blog was/is the only law blog I’ve read where I literally LOL’d in the middle of class [↩]
