Campuses have always had their boldface names: professors who?ve logged time in a White House cabinet, opined on ?PBS NewsHour? or written Pulitzer Prize-winning best sellers. To this venerated lot we can add the academic blogger. A remarkable variety of scholars have achieved blogosphere fame, particularly those devoted to subjects related to the public sphere ? politics, economics, legal affairs. Law school bloggers are practically their own category.
?I think a lot of us have a desire to catch the issue of the day and put a personal stamp on it, and we?re in a good position to do so,? says Ann Alt house, who teaches at the University of Wisconsin Law School and whose eponymous blog (tagline: Don?t you love Althouse?) is often one of Technorati?s Top 25.