Blog 1: Non-Commercial

I found a blog I consider one of my favorites while doing some career searching. I'm considering going to law school in the future and was doing research by looking up law-related blogs and blogs done by lawyers. The most interesting blog I found is called Anonymous Lawyer. It's basically the blog of a hiring partner who works at a big time firm. The postings are sarcastic and often stinging and the blog doesn't portray what one might consider 'the best side of the firm'. I particularly enjoy the postings where he basically says all the firms are the same and that the 'work here' speech each of them gives is bull. Life's not about fun, it's about work and making money and laughing at the expense of others. Not sure how I feel about the message, but at least it's straightforward. Kind of makes me nervous to hear what happens at a big firm considering I'm thinking about going to law school.

So what's the point of the blog? Could be a few things. Could be a bitter old lawyer venting because he hates his job and his life. Could be that he wants others to know about how miserable, evil, and yet amusing life as a lawyer can be. Could be that he is not even a lawyer and is making stuff up. I personally like the second option. Like I do in my personal blog, I think he's just letting people know what happens while he's at work and about the mindset of lawyers.

Net Pres Projects Update

Just to let everyone know what projects I'm currently working on. For my personal blog, The Spa Life (unless I can think of a catchier name), will be about different things that have happened to me while working as a receptionist at a spa/salon. It will include funny customer stories, different reception experiences, and info on different spa/salon trends. For my podcast I'll be doing a subliminal message thing. I'll have one podcast that's a disclaimer and explanation of what subliminal perception is and why it really doesn't work. Following that will be episodes which consist of music created by me using Garage Band with some sort of subliminal message attached. The first one I'm going to do will be for insomniacs and will include subliminal phrases such as "you're feeling sleepy" and "you eyes are getting heavy". Each will probably be about 8-10 min because creating a song any longer than that gets tiresome. Also, I think I've figured out what to do for my wikipedia article. Currently the article for my ex-sorority (I'm an alum) is only a stub, so I think I'll expand it. Go me!

The Book Stops Here

Wikipedia anyone? A free encyclopedia created by community effort and sharing is a great idea. The all for one approach discussed in the Wired article, although not the most reliable or accurate method for created a mass amount of knowledge, is the most cost effective way to create an even larger mass of knowledge than a typical encyclopedia. The corrective system is also genius and an average fix time of about 3min. is amazing. There are obviously way too many people out there with a little too much time on their hands. Personally, I see wikipedia as simply other step toward converting all print publications into an online/interactive format. Who knows, maybe novels will be written using wiki software in the future?

The unchecked potential to create mayhem on the site is somewhat troublesome, as is the creating of random, meaningless articles. I recently read in the local paper that Wikipedia is looking to put a system in place in order to discourage malicious behavior. However, the proposed measure is simply to allow only registered members to create articles, which seems almost pointless to do. Unregistered users are still free to edit any article they wish, they simply couldn’t create a new article. Why implement such a useless policy? Now, I'm not suggesting that they put in strict policies, because that would defeat the purpose of an all for one encyclopedia. I'm simply questioning putting any policy in place at all.