6 Years, 1800 Posts and How the World Has Changed

Posted 4:20 PM by Michael Fox

Not a lot has changed with Jottings By An Employer's Lawyer since my first post 6 years ago today. 1,800 posts later, I still post on blogspot, I still use the free version of blogger, and I still use an outmoded and limited version of blogroll.

But one thing that has definitely changed are the people who have joined me in this small, but hopefully interesting part of the blogosphere.

Listed below are the blogs in the area that have made their way to my RSS reader. I have listed their first post that I could find, although I am fairly certain that I didn't get the very first post of everyone. Still it's an interesting exercise to check them out now as well as their early posts.

A few of the blogs are worthy of special comment. George Lenard at George's Employment Blawg and Michael Fitzgibbons at Thoughts From a Management Labor Lawyer have been at this nearly as long as me.

Paul Secunda and Richard Bales took over the Workplace Prof Blog from its founder Rafael Gely, and now have added some additional colleagues and provide daily posting of an extremely high level. Also from the academic world, Ross Runkel has the Arbitration Law and Employment Law blogs and some other publications that are notable.

Paul Mollica at Daily Developments in EEO Law is joining me this fall as the only other active blogger (that I know of) in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Although I think I have only met one of the bloggers listed below, Chris McKinney of HR Lawyers Blog, who is in San Antonio, just down the road from me, and have corresponded with only a handful more, I feel a common bond with everyone who chooses to share their viewpoint on a regular basis. Hopefully, our collective effort has made a difference. I know that I have learned a lot.

If you haven't checked out my colleagues, please do so.

I am sure that there are other blogs in this area that I have missed, as well as getting any number of "first" posts wrong. Please feel free to make additions and point out corrections in the comments.

As always, thanks for stopping by.

Michael Fox

Updated: As I get additions, corrections within the next few days they will be added into the post, since hopefully the list will be of some benefit to those looking for a collection of labor and employment law blogs.

Comments:

Michael,

Thank you for including my blog in this esteemed group. You know you've made it when you make it onto Michael Fox's list!

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Anonymous : 1:57 AM

Michael;

Congratulations on six years of blogging that is a true accomplishment. I am on to bigger and better things at my new, but similarly named blog: Pennsylvania Labor and Employment Blog. I would love to have one of the remaining three spaces on your list of "50". Thanks also for recognizing my prior work at the Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog.

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Anonymous : 9:27 AM

Thanks for including the Florida Employment & Immigration Law Blog. We are the "new kid on the block," and are very pleased to be included in the listing.

- Richard Tuschman

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Anonymous : 3:51 PM

Congratulations on the 6 years! And thanks for mentioning me in your esteemed list of cohorts!

Keep on a'blogging my friend.

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Anonymous : 8:52 PM

Way to go, Michael! You're right: things have sure changed since those blogging "Stone Ages" when we old-timers started.

I remember when the word "blog" evoked a blank stare; now I drive home listening to the "Blogger's Roundtable" on NPR. Heck, I glance out at centerfield at Busch Stadium and see the St. Louis Post-Dispatch advertising, among other things, its sports blogs.

Looking back to my first post, which hinted at my hope for the blog to be a solution for my information overload, my personal experience has been that we have succeeded in vastly multiplying the overload.

I cannot read other blogs and maintain my own, yet if I could I would gain so much more useful information!

For the record, that first post was actually May 12, 2003
(http://www.employmentblawg.com/2003/well-here-i-am-finally-after-admiring-blawgs/)

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George : 11:49 PM

Michael:

We're so honored to be included in your list--thank you! After six years, what a chronicle you must have made! Keep up the great work!

Molly DiBianca
DELB

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Anonymous : 5:23 AM

Congratulations on your milestone. Part of me hopes we make it six years. It's not the part that enjoys sleep. Thank you, too, for mentioning our little blog on your impressive list.
Best,
Greg (What's New in Employment Law)

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Greg : 7:45 AM

Thanks for the mention and the fascinating list.

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Evil HR Lady : 6:53 AM

You people are losers that know nothing about business.

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Anonymous : 4:36 PM

Michael - Congratulations on yet another year! Your work on Jottings got me into blogging in the first place and it remains one of the few blogs that I check each day without fail. Take care.

Chris

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Anonymous : 2:51 PM

Ya' gotta add "HR Wench"--the good Wenchie deserves the props of being on your list!

See hrwench.blogspot.com

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Will Pearce : 11:00 PM

Congratulations and thank you for the helpful list! Keep it up

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Anonymous : 12:41 AM

The list is basic but only good content. Thanks for sharing.

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Anonymous : 12:57 PM

That is a lot of work. Congratulations and please keep it up!!

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Anonymous : 7:38 AM

Congratulations on making six years. Keep up the great work and thanks for the list.

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Anonymous : 3:23 PM

The first 6 years are hardest. Congrats.

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