Tag: meta

  • Readers’ Update: Social & Search

    Readers, I have a couple of Letters Blogatory updates for you, one of which comes with a request. Social media. Until about two years ago, I was quite active on Twitter (when it was Twitter) and engaged with readers there probably more often than here on the website. My Twitter/X account still exists, but I……

  • Letters Blogatory Joins the Fediverse

    Readers, I am happy to announce that Letters Blogatory is now using ActivityPub, the protocol that powers Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse. The Fediverse is a lot of things to a lot of people, but to me it is a way of microblogging, similar to Twitter, except that there is no algorithm showing……

  • hCaptcha On Letters Blogatory

    Readers, this is just a heads-up that you will now see hCaptchas on Letters Blogatory’s subscription and contact pages. Over the weekend, I was going through the messages left on the contact pages in the last month. There were hundreds, and they were predominantly spam. I don’t have time for that. While I already have……

  • Letters Blogatory is Turning Ten!

    Letters Blogatory is Turning Ten!

    A week from today, Letters Blogatory celebrates its tenth birthday! I confess the anniversary snuck up on me. Ten years and thousands of posts later, I look back and realize just how important writing this blog has been to me, professionally and personally. On the personal side, it’s provided me an outlet to write every……

  • The ALI

    Some personal news to report: I have been elected a member of the American Law Institute. For foreign readers, the ALI is “the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.” It drafts and promulgates the Restatements of the Law and uniform codes such as……