SoCalLaw Blog has gotten a lot of press lately, most recently in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, a local legal paper. In the Daily Journal piece there's discussion of BLAP -- Blogging Loosely Applied Practices -- which were compiled here at Calblog. Here's the quote:
But Lewis subscribes to a set of rules called the Blogosphere Loosely Applied Practices, or "BLAP," he said. One BLAP rule states that administrators should not change substantially the text of a musing after posting it, instead adding updates if corrections are needed.
"I would say that a Website that announces that it does not change its posts, like those that subscribe to BLAP, might be safe to cite to for limited circumstances. However, even sites that subscribe to BLAP are self-policing," Lewis said.
What the Journal doesn't say is that, to my knowledge, only SoCalLaw Blog and I subscribe to BLAP. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Posted by Justene Adamec at September 28, 2003 01:16 PM | TrackBackThat the Urinal could write about BLAP without mentioning Calblog proves that the paper is even more clueless than I thought - and that's saying a lot.
Posted by: Xrlq at September 28, 2003 01:35 PM (Permalink)SoCalLaw Blog deserves the press though. He's consistently good.
Posted by: Justene at September 28, 2003 03:48 PM (Permalink)I thought the piece had a very odd angle. While Blogs and the Recall is a very interesting topic, the narrow issue the author sought to examine was lawyers citing to blogs in briefs -- of all the angles to pick, that seems to have been a boring choice. Oh well, at least I got some free press so I can try to keep up with the sky rocketing hits of Justene and XRLQ.
Posted by: So Cal Lawyer at September 28, 2003 05:02 PM (Permalink)
I sort of subscribe to BLAP -- assuming I'm writing to establish some serious point -- but if I'm accusing Bustamante of being a tool of the portable toilet industry -- as I am today -- I don't feel like that stuff becomes etched in stone...