"Blawg"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/29/2007 07:44 AM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>I should have checked out whether this was actually old news.  It is
>interesting that "blawg" was initially dismissed as a "witty
>one-off," but has clearly become the standard term for a law blog
>and has over 800,000 Google hits.

Perhaps because it is reminiscent (at least to me) of "blah", as in
"blah, blah, blah"?

Joel

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