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April 25, 2007

"Thinking Blogger": An Oxymoron? Discuss.

S
ally Greene placed me on her list of "Five Blogs That Make Me Think." (This blog's presence on her list leads me to suspect that she may have thought she was supposed to have identified "Five Blogs That Make Me Think ... About Giving Up Blogging," but there it is. There's no accounting for taste.)

The rules of this little blogospheric meme require me to tag five blogs that make me think -- and I'm forbidden from designating Sally's, whose blog would otherwise have topped my list.

So here are my five. To each I say, "Thanks for the great blogging!" and, consistently with the "tag" metaphor, "You're 'it'!"

Discourse.net. A blog by my law school classmate and University of Miami lawprof Michael Froomkin. He's just always good. Always.

The Legal History Blog. A relative newcomer to the blogosphere, USC lawprof Mary Dudziak's blog is superb. She links to great reading and offers provocative and helpful content of her own about legal history and academia.

Cliopatria. A history group-blog. Each author has a distinctive voice; each writes about the things that interests him; each is a great writer; and together they're all very interesting.

Ed Cone. Ed's been at the game a while, and he's not just interesting but one of the political blogosphere's true class acts. His many links send me to interesting places, and his original content (and the discussions in his comments) always inform me.

David Neiwert's Orcinus. David says a lot of things that need saying, and he always keeps his eye on the ball. I've learned a ton over at Orcinus.

Posted by Eric at April 25, 2007 10:37 AM

Comments

I got it a month ago, and I thought of putting you on the list, but I figured you had enough readership that my meager dozens wouldn't be a great addition, ad I've linked to you enough in the past that it also wouldn't expose them to anything new.

I'm surprised that Dave Niewert wasn't sooner named.

Posted by: Terry Karney at April 25, 2007 8:35 PM