Should we be watching out for angry crowds?
In a post vividly titled Lawyers and blogging go together like witches and stoning, Kevin Heller quoted a Wall Street Journal article about weblogging lawyers on Friday:
According to a survey conducted by blogads.com, lawyers ranked fourth among both readers and posters to blogs. Many of the best- known blogs, such as instapundit.com, are run by lawyers. It's easy to understand why blogging attracts the J.D. set: Few professions combine as much creative talent with so much mind-numbing work.
Well, that's a little uncharitable toward lawyers' work. Sure, I have tedious days, but there are countless jobs out there that are tedious every day, so I consider myself fortunate to have them only from time to time.
Even so, what we do tends to be craft rather than art, and those who have a more artistic or expressive bent naturally look for ways to develop and apply it that they don't find in their work. (I have to admit that sometimes I long for the day when I'll be able to draw on my fondness for design and typography to draft an agreement that looks like a high-quality printed product rather than something that came out of a glorified typewriter, but I don't think that's likely to happen anytime soon!)
