Does Blogging Count?

I received information about the Santa Clara Law roundtable discussion, "Blogging, Scholarship and the Bench and Bar," but wasn't able to attend.  Fortunately, the National Law Journal has a transcript of the roundtable discussion available online, and it makes for fascinating reading.  Lots of interesting debate about whether law professors' blogs should count as legal scholarship in tenure decisions and how blogging is breaking down communication barriers between practicing attorneys and legal academics.  Cindy Cohn, legal counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, had this to say about blogs and legal scholarship:  "I don't have the time to read a law review article from beginning to end very often on my issues. I'd like to see legal scholarship be more accessible to practitioners, more useful to us."  Other interesting tidbits:  Judge Michael Daly Hawkins of the Ninth Circuit noted that the Ninth Circuit judges do read blog posts about cases that they've either decided or will decide soon -- compiled for them by the Ninth Circuit's librarian, of course!.