Friday Frivolity: The End Is Near for Typepad

Typepad, the web hosting site that has provided a platform for this Blog and indeed the entire Law Professor Blog Network, is shutting down at the end of this month. What this means for the future of the Blog is, at present, unclear. I am awaiting word from the Mother Ship and Blog Emperor Paul Caron (right). 

Change is hard. I’ve been writing for this blog since 2005, with a hiatus from 2015-2020. If the Mother Ship cannot migrate the content to a new location, I will have to attempt to salvage over twenty years of posts by the Blog’s many contributors. The Blog is intended as a resource. If you have a question about contracts, there is likely some relevant information in the Blog’s archives. It would be a shame if all that content could not be salvaged.

But change can be good too. Typepad is rickety. It has become increasingly hard to upload images, and our feed died and could not be replaced a few years ago. Perhaps a new platform will make it easier to upload content, generate comments, attract advertisers, and share our content with interested users.

Stay tuned. I will provide some sort of update by the end of the month. I have drafted posts to take us through to the close of Typepad. If the Mother Ship cannot find a way to migrate the posts to a safe location, I may have to do that work myself, which might involve a hiatus or at least a slow-down in October, as time that I would have devoted to drafting new posts will instead be spent archiving.