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2.15.2004

So you want to be a Moritz blogger . . .

Look, we all had our suspicions this would start multiplying. Now everyone is blogspot this or blogspot that. Everyone chose a sample template and has yet to substantially alter it. No one has purchased their own URL or webspace (except for Mr. Shecket).

Remember when you and your three friends had this little place you would go to on Friday and Saturday nights because it was real chill and all of a sudden it got really freaking crowded and popular for no reason other than its own popularity? That's this whole Moritz blogger thing right now. So, Mr. and Mrs. Two-L who wants to blog here is the deal if you wanna hang with the cool kids.

First of all you can't look exactly like each other. I'm pointing at you Harmless Error and Mediocre Law Student. One of you has to switch colors, or typefaces, or something.

Second, you have to be distinctive. I am distinctive because I was first, and because zipsix.com is not a "law students blog" because it started when I wasn't a law student. This webpage is an online journal which occasionally talks about law relating things but is mostly about the sphere of things that occurs around me from day to day. Law v. Life is distinctive because she was our first anonyblogger, and she writes about her love-interests and community service and in-classroom thoughts. Law Dork is distinctive because its run by our resident-overachiever Chris Geidner, and focuses substantively on legal, political and media-related issues. It also breaks Moritz-blogging related news, indexes all our sites, and is a bizarrely comforting puke-green color. Shecket's a 1L who is keeping all his classnotes online and posts several times a day in little quippy vignettes (sp?). His page also went from totally-unreadable to marginally-unreadable because he toned the font size down from 72point to 48 point. If you like scrolling, you'll love Shecket. I'm poking at Mike because he declared my site to be the "Slowest-Loading Page in History."

Third, you have to link to at least ten other websites, and you should at least link to the four of us who preceded you. Why? Because.

Fourth, you should show some interest in learning HTML. You're typing in a format that lets you do some fantastic things, if you learn them. Why not at least try? Typing into blogger, hitting "Post & Publish" and calling it a day is like writing a symphony for the first violins and a triangle player. See how my text scrolls over the background pentagon? That's art, baby!

Fifth, you should oppose the administration committees attempt to impose Exam Software on you. Because the smart people here do :) , and you have a mouth piece from which to sound the student body's voice onto the members of the faculty who may be listening.

Sixth, if you're going to be Moritz land's avowed conservative student blogger voice, be prepared for a discussion. I'm a little testy these days and I like to protect my territory.  
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