I really enjoyed my first trip to the NASC conference. There were a lot of interesting people there and it was great to meet people focusing on sentencing issues from a non-academic perspective who also wanted to hear what academics had to say.
During my time there, I was on a panel with Berman and Connelly concerning blogging about sentencing. One of the realities of blogging is that it is a solo project (even in group blogs where a bunch of people end up individually working, but contributing to the same blog). So, it was neat to hear two other people talk about why they blog and what they hope to accomplish through blogging. And it was interesting to find that although each of us writes on our own, we do it for most of the same reasons.
Concerning a minor note that might only be interesting to me, before the panel began, I was sitting by Berman as we were both on our laptops. We had a quick exchange about copying materials from the web, including court cases, in a way that strips out the coding. We both used different techniques, although his was more efficient than mine. Although it was just a little thing, it made me realize that although blogging is "easy" in a sense, that I had never really read a helpful guide about the actual nuts-and-bolts of blogging. If any readers know of any helpful resource out there, I would appreciate it. I imagine many bloggers have picked up little tips over the years (ie Berman knowing how to strip out text coding better than me), but haven't shared them because they assume everyone else may know them already. If there isn't a good guide out there, maybe I'll try to put together some tips for legal bloggers.
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