This Blog Thing Might Just Catch On

The indefatigable Paul Caron, boss of TaxProf Blog and capo di tutti capi of the Law Professor Blog Network, is at it again with a new ranking of blogs written by law professors.  Caron first started doing this in his article, In Are Scholars Better Bloggers? , 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1025 (2006),   (The answer to that question, by the way, is “yes.”  They also have whiter teeth, better-looking children, and are terrific dancers.)

He’s updated his rankings of law professor blogs, which are based on citation counts.  The good news (we suppose) is that we’re No. 25, edging out Empirical Legal Studies, which we would have thought would be about as popular in the legal academy as for-profit law schools.  The bad news is that he doesn’t include a lot of  very popular law professor blogs that don’t have site meters.  The really amazing news is that Glenn Reynolds of InstaPundit got 75 million hits last year, which is astonishing given that he hardly ever writes about contract law and doesn’t have nude pictures of Jessica Simpson (top left).

(Note that by writing “nude pictures of Jessica Simpson” in this post, we’ll get an extra 50,000 Google hits over the new 12 months and probably make the Top 20.  If somehow me managed to insert the words “nude pictures of Britney Spears” into the post, we’d bump that up to 100,000 and pass the University of Chicago Faculty Blog.)

[Frank Snyder]