by Matt Barr

Is anybody listening?

Take these data points from Prof. Smith's research (via Volokh), exchange the word "blogs" for "law review articles" and "links" for "citations," and you're on to something! Part of it would look like this:

Well, let's look at blogs that get more than 100 links. These are the elite. They make up less than 1 percent of all blogs, .898 percent to be precise. They get, is anybody listening out there? 96 percent of all links to blogs. That's all. Only 96 percent. Talk about concentration of wealth.

Close. TTLB says: 1,719 blogs have 100 or more links, out of 33,045 registered (5.2 percent). 11,127 have no links to them at all (33.6 percent). Close enough for government work.

And yet we blog anyway. It's cathartic. More cathartic than legal scholarship!

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