Worth Repeating

Evan Schaeffer, in Back to the Drawing Board, Mr. Law Professor:

if you want a factual error, he* defines "blawgs" as a type of weblog in which "law students across the country record their musings about their daily experiences in law schools." This definition is just plain wrong, and I wonder how it could have happened. Didn't Rosen have an editor?

Mr. Rosen,

My advice is you should have done your homework to discover who coined that term and you could have asked her for the definition.

* Your Blog or Mine? by Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor at George Washington University in the December 19th ed. of the New York Times.

note: the article also mentions by name two blogs/blawgs ("Life, Law, Libido" and "ambivalent imbroglio") written by law students who attend/attended GWU Law.

update: Dennis Kennedy has this to say abour Rosen's failure to fact check and edit:

Denise has long been known and credited for coining the term "blawg." I can understand that there might not have been enough room ... to mention Denise by name. However, it would have been nice to get the definition right. "Blawgs" are most definitely not limited to blogs written by law students, as Rosen and the fact-checking team at the NYT Magazine might lead you to believe. The general definition of "blawg" is "a web log written by lawyers and/or concerned primarily with legal affairs."

This reminds me -- all blogs have editors Mr. Rosen, they're called their readers.