Do Blawgs Help You in Your Daily Newsgathering
September 19th, 2004Matthew Lerner wants to know if blawgs help in your daily news gathering:
“Do Weblogs help you as a law student, paralegal, lawyer, law librarian, librarian, or Weblog reader? In preparing for my presentations on using Weblogs in the law, I have been meeting with resistance from a few lawyers who do not see the worth in using Weblogs for research or marketing. For the most part, the lawyers who have expressed that opinion either are (1) not technologically curious or adept; or (2) use folders within Microsoft Word to store cases and statutes in Westlaw, feeling that technique is better than anything a Weblog could offer.”
No need for me to preach to the choir here. Lerner is not alone in meeting resistance by lawyers at firms on the need for blawgs. My discussions with attorneys have been met with one of two extremes: 1) Go for it Cohen or 2) Don’t waste my time Cohen. Hopefully, the former will win out. Now, I just have to find time to implement the technology…