Comments on: Ghostblawging OK? http://blog.bennettandbennett.com/2007/09/ghostblawging-ok.html the tao of criminal-defense trial lawyering Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:39:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Other Steve http://blog.bennettandbennett.com/2007/09/ghostblawging-ok.html/comment-page-1#comment-440 Other Steve Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:42:00 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/?p=302#comment-440 Since I'm not an attorney, I don't read your blawg to try to better my skills (nor am I a lay-blogger, looking to improve my blogging). I'm also not a prospective client, so I don't use your blawg as a criterion for hiring you or not.<br/><br/>But I AM a layperson who wants to get a better feel for the criminal defender (your "Day-in-the-Life"-style post a few months back is among my favorite posts of any blawg), and I would object to someone else secretly writing the blawg, even if such writing was done at your direction. If I found out that your "Day-in-the-Life"-style post was not a first-hand account of the action, but rather some second-hand interpretation of your ideas by some unknown ghostwriter, I'd reconsider your blawg's place on my RSS reader.<br/><br/>Even as a regular reader with nothing at stake but my own leisure time, I still object to ghostwriting, at least in this circumstance. Kudos for your commitment to authorship transparency. Since I’m not an attorney, I don’t read your blawg to try to better my skills (nor am I a lay-blogger, looking to improve my blogging). I’m also not a prospective client, so I don’t use your blawg as a criterion for hiring you or not.

But I AM a layperson who wants to get a better feel for the criminal defender (your “Day-in-the-Life”-style post a few months back is among my favorite posts of any blawg), and I would object to someone else secretly writing the blawg, even if such writing was done at your direction. If I found out that your “Day-in-the-Life”-style post was not a first-hand account of the action, but rather some second-hand interpretation of your ideas by some unknown ghostwriter, I’d reconsider your blawg’s place on my RSS reader.

Even as a regular reader with nothing at stake but my own leisure time, I still object to ghostwriting, at least in this circumstance. Kudos for your commitment to authorship transparency.

]]> By: Scott Greenfield http://blog.bennettandbennett.com/2007/09/ghostblawging-ok.html/comment-page-1#comment-439 Scott Greenfield Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:00:00 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/?p=302#comment-439 You are right. Ed is wrong. And there's nothing further to discuss. You are right. Ed is wrong. And there’s nothing further to discuss.

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