Tickled

Growth Spurt: 1) Something babies go through periodically. 2) A hole in the space-time continuum.

Nevertheless, I had to surface to mention how cool it is Bag and Baggage was selected the Netlawtools Site of the Year for 2003. It's in illustrious company, given the 2002, 2001, 2000, and 1999 honorees, and the wealth of great legal blogs out there. Kevin Werbach observes that "[s]ome day we may look back and identify the rise of blogs, not the Web, as the decisive development that changed our relationship to information... and to each other," and Jerry Lawson has dubbed '03 "the year of the blawg." It's continually wonderful to meet people, grow, and learn through this process.

Speaking of the Year of the Blawg, I don't see any Technorati links to this Reuters story yet — LiveWire: Web unites and divides legal profession. "Lawyers, journalists and the general public can also get news fed to them with software that scans major legal Web sites and legal online newsletters or Web logs, or blogs, for short."