http://blog.justiceserved.com/?p=112

The verdict? Still much ado about nothing.

update (Nov. 18, 2008): In a comment left this afternoon at Simple Justice, Kevin O’Keefe has refused to edit his original post, telling me to “grow up,” and stop worrying about “ruffled feathers.” That significantly diminishes the value of his so-called apology. As the “rufflee” in the perpetual-cache Google world described in Daniel Solove’s book, The Future of Reputation, I do not think it’s too much to ask Kevin to correct the distorted impression he created of me at his website, which he strives so hard to keep “search engine optimized.”

update (Jan. 4, 2009): As I mention in an “afterwords” above, the unveiling of Lextweet by his LexBlog company explains why Kevin got so apoplectic when I refused to be tempted into the Twitter Cage. See Legal Blog Watch.

In any case, the resulting discussion has been very healthy.

http://tinyurl.com/6983wh

And, thanks for the pointed pointer at your weblog last night.

Many of the biggest Twitterers are solos or in very small practices. They not only have a reasonable expectation of developing client referrals from whatever online activity they can generate, but also lack the built-in network that people in larger firms have.

There are other ways of going about this, but you can hardly blame them for believing that, once mastered, those of them with something to say (ahh!) will enhance their practices by virtue of being on people’s radar and by having access to fast and “plugged in” expertise. And, David, to be perfectly frank, they aren’t necessarily overwhelmed with billable work just this minute — I say that with all due respect and including myself in this category — unlike lawyers in more established or institutional settings or who have firm alumni (academic or law firm) networks at their disposal.

As for me, I am a Twitter skeptic, but I am finding ways to use Twitter to maximize the bang for the buck I already get from my law blogging (which I believe is considerable) and my use of the much broader multimedia platform of Facebook.

I’m not claiming to know the answer — except about some lawyer blogs, and the share of the general public that consists of me — but I think that is the key question.

I’m not, by the way, a twitter fan; the only tweets I followed were of the anarchists during the RNC; they were using Twitter to organize and communicate. But maybe I’m missing some twits that I’d find of interest.