Bluebook Followup: Do As We Say, Not As We Do
Some time ago I criticized the Bluebook's rules on citing blogs, particularly because full URLS to blog posts are not supposed to be used.
Today the blawgosphere is abuzz with the launch of the Pocket Part, the quasi-blog of the Yale Law Journal. It's really quite a nice site, both in content and in style. But how does Yale suggest that one should cite to the Pocket Part?
Preferred Citation: Abraham Bell & Gideon Parchomovsky, Of Property and Federalism, Yale L.J., Oct. 2005 (The Pocket Part), http://www.thepocketpart.org/2005/10/bell_parchomovsky.html.Nice to see one of the Gang of Four deciding that the rules on blog citation don't make sense.
UPDATE: Amazing. I never thought I had this many readers, but this post wasn't up for fifteen minutes before I received an email arguing that the bluebooking for the Pocket Part should be different because it isn't a "blog."
I suppose one can wonder about blogginess in the way that one can wonder about angels dancing on the head of a pin. Is it a matter of having consistent authors? Frequent postings? The ability to comment? I won't venture into that terrain, except to point out that as a technical matter, the Pocket Part's source code suggests at least a kissing-cousin relationship to blogdom:
meta name="generator" content="Movable Type 3.2"
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Posted by: Len Cleavelin | October 19, 2005 4:38 PM
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