Picker MobBlog: Closing this Mob

June 30, 2005

Closing this Mob

The experiment was to group, blog and disband, and so it is time to disband.

As to the experiment, I am very interested to hear views on that, either as comments on this post or via email. What worked? What didn’t and why? I personally have been very pleased with the discussion, within the mob through posts and comments and across the Web, through links and blogs and the mainstream media.

I should say that I am dazzled by SCOTUSblog’s success—92,000 hits on Monday. Wow. SCOTUSblog has helped to turn Supreme Court opinion releases into movie premieres, minus the cameras and red carpet. That is really terrific, and I hope/expect that SCOTUSblog will make this a regular part of what they do. I also expect other blogs to do this next year, and obviously the mainstream media will do this as well. Dahlia Lithwick and Slate have been doing this for a number of years already. And SCOTUSblog continues to be a key source for information about the Court; see today’s post on the end of the term statistics.

To thanks. I want to thank my co-mobbers for posting and discussing: Doug Lichtman; Jessica Litman; Jim Speta; Larry Solum; Lior Strahilevitz; Phil Weiser; and Tim Wu. Larry, of course, will continue to post on his Legal Theory blog, and be sure to check his post from yesterday on Grokster.

I also want to thank people who commented and who just clicked and read. Until a week ago, clicking and reading was my only experience with blogs, and it obviously still will remain the main way I interact with blogs.

Main but not exclusive. So in setting up this blog, I indicated that mobs would be the heart of the blog and that will be the case.

But between mobs, Doug Lichtman, Tim Wu and I will continue to do some posts. As I have mentioned before, Tim and I co-taught an innovation seminar in the Spring; classes are over, but we want to continue to talk. Doug and I have co-authored before; co-taught a number of times (including the locally-infamous Technology, Innovation and Society class (once)); and are co-residents on the sixth floor of the University of Chicago Law School. Doug, Tim and I had emailed a couple of months ago about trying a blog, so I think that we will try this one.

As to the next mob, Doug, Tim and I are emailing, but again, if you have thoughts, please post a comment or email me. Thanks.

Randy Picker

Posted by Randy Picker on June 30, 2005 at 03:12 PM in Grokster/Brand X | Permalink

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