OMG!! 
It seems (thank you Charon for spotting it) that the Bar Council has been stunned into action by Geeklawyer’s shameful mockery (For which he is very very sorry indeed, please put down that dentist’s drill Mr Voss).
The Bar Council has a blog! Chairman of the Bar Geoffrey Vos QC has broken a bottle of champagne over the servers and watched them slide into the Thames to the cheering of massed ranks of two barristers and a girl from the typing pool. Nice.
Initial signs are, however, slightly worrying: it’s very pretty and nicely laid out; great. However, and this may be just initial teething troubles, it seems to be impossible to add comments even after one has registered as a site user. Geeklawyer phoned the Bar Council’s press office and so one hopes they will do something about it PDFQ. While he is happy to pour scorn and derision on the faux blogs and trogs, the last thing he wants to have to do is mock is his own governing body. Please get it right and don’t be sucky.
Geeklawyer really really wants this blog to work and he will be adding this to his RSS feed. Tim Kevan seems to have been roped in and is involved in some capacity (Geeklawyer has taken umbrage that he was not approached) so they have a degree of ‘bought in’ savvy about blogs and they ought to be able to get it right.
Oh, and Geoffrey you may wish to attend Lawblog 2007. Just leave the instruments of torture at home, eh?
I wonder if Mr Vos QC will come to LawBlog 2007. ?
My keynote speech is coming along nicely… a multi-media experience… and I may bring some lissome backing singers and a few steel drummrs along with me. I think you mentioned that i should try to keep it down to 90 minutes?
May be a bit pushed… but I’ll do my best and arrange for drinks to be brought on to the pitch.
I thought we might start with a japanese style company song… would you like me to write one?
I was toying with the idea of strippers in my bit to detract from my droning voice and annoying mannerisms. Haven’t decided yet.
Shorter is better and ideally no Powerpoint.
A Japanese style lawblogging song would be great — but it has to be in Japanese.
OK…OK.… no steel drums… no powerpoint… so last year.…. I don’t speak Japanese. I shall chant in Latin and swing a smoking handbag around as I do my procession to the pulpit…and, from there… I shall perorate, hyperbolate and may even hyperventilate.
OK if I give myself a bit of communion and take wine? Happy to share with the congregation provided they don’t drink too much of it.
I am, as it happens, looking forward to the event. I usually do Chelsea Flower Show, a bit of Henley, Glyndebourne — but I have tired of the season.… only so much Royalty one can cope with as a Republican… and now that the toffs have taken to parodying themselves (Viz: WebCameron et al).… observing the ‘elite’ of British Society ain’t wot it woz.…
So.… Lawblog 2007 will fill a big gap in my social calendar this year…
Isn’t Vo5 a type of hair cream?
What with blogging codes of conduct, and every dusty institution making a half-hearted attempting to modernise, perhaps blogging is losing it’s irreverent and anarchistic appeal to independent voices? The public acceptance of blogging dilutes the impact of the blogging community as a public forum for protest and collaborative outrage. Speakers corner has only loonies, and the blawgosphere will soon be only unimaginative students of the internet who care more for online footprint than their flashmobs? What is the blawgosphere coming to?
Perhaps it’s time to put down the computer and start that part-time PhD I’ve been talking about for the last year…
Perhaps…
F*ck it. Keep on with the immediacy of meta-cyber-ego-toss.