The Blog Is Landed

By Dan Canon

So now I have one of these things.  One of these…well, I don’t like the word.  I’m looking for a new word. Gabe Bullard suggests “wagazine” (web magazine).  I like it better than “blog,” so I’m stealing it for now. However, I don’t think I like the idea of being a “wagger” any more than a “blogger.” I take some comfort in knowing that this is not a problem I have to solve in my first post.

I’ll admit to being behind the curve a bit, but I did have a Live Journal before (although I’ve been told that LJ doesn’t count as a real wagazine).  In my defense, I was busy trying to keep my head above water in law school, and then in law practice, while this whole blog thing was really catching on amongst layfolk and lawyers alike. So I missed the boat, but now I’m on it. Thanks for keeping my seat warm, internet.

The question is: what will this wagazine be about?

I think I read somewhere in the thousands upon thousands of social media/marketing tips that bombard me daily via Twitter and/or Google Reader that you should keep the focus of your wagazine very narrow.

Here, in no particular order, are some topics I’ve been kicking around:

- Religion and capital punishment;
- Legal issues that affect cancer patients and survivors;
- Poverty, its causes, and its culture;
- Lawyer culture and behavior;
- LGBT rights and legal issues;
- The problem of suffering in general, and what can be done to alleviate it (especially by lawyers);
- Animal welfare and rights;
- Anything having anything to do with the intersection of music, law, and/or religion; and
- Early Mesopotamian zoology (specifically, early developments in avian scatology).

Some of this stuff is already covered so well that I would have little to offer, at least on a regular basis, without being duplicative or engaging in some serious modern-jackassery. I have decided to drop the last item because I know nothing about it and really am not all that interested in it. I don’t even know if it makes sense. Sorry about that.  Other than that, I am having trouble whittling down my list.

Anyway, since I can’t really decide on a narrow topic that would hold my attention for more than a couple of posts, I’m just going to set aside some time to write in here every week and see what happens.  I hope you find it entertaining, and I welcome your feedback.

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