Blogs as scholarship and a nice plug

Thanks to Howard, I see that this week’s issue of The National Law Journal has this interesting article entitled “Blogging law profs assault ivory tower; Is it scholarship, or a cyber chit-chat?”.  Needless to say, I think blogs (at least some of them) are a form of scholarship, but Texas Professor Kate Litvak apparently does not agree.  She is quoted as saying: “They have nothing to do with scholarship.”

Joyfully, this morning I can respond to Kate’s assertion by noting that the Ohio Supreme Court is apparently in the camp that thinks blogs have at least something to do with scholarship.  In its big Blakely decision today (basics here), the Ohio Supreme Court gives this blog this nice little plug in footnote 3:

See, also, Douglas A. Berman’s legal blog, Sentencing Law and Policy, at http://sentencing.typepad.com for updates on Blakely and current source material on sentencing.

I cannot help but also note that traditional law review articles do not appear to be cited anywhere in the opinion.

UPDATE: Dan Solove has terrific additional coverage and commentary on the NLJ article here at Concurring Opinions.