First, the numbers. There were more than 17,500 views at Law Dork this month, a high for the new blog. In the four months that I’ve been writing again, I’ve received more than 50,000 views for more than 250 posts that received 400 comments. I’ve continued to expand my “mindcasting” project (inspired by NYU’s Jay Rosen) of developing thoughts and sharing quick links at Twitter, beginning to find a nice balance between writing there and here that I feel is working well for me and for the more than 400 people following my feed there.
Then, the substance. Obviously, the release of the Proposition 8 opinion led to increased traffic, despite the opinion’s upsetting result for many. I like to think that the niche I am finding for my writing is being able to write intelligently about legal and political LGBT developments with an understanding of the high passions involved in a way that can hold lawyers’ interests while not sounding too legalese for non-lawyers.
This past month, some of the posts that have helped advance that mission include:
- New Hampshire: Where the ‘Broader Lens’ Sees Equality
- Anger, Leadership and Change
- Proposition 8: The Ruling
- Federal Prop 8 Challenge Filed
- LGBT Equality Orgs Do. Not. Like. Olson/Boies Lawsuit
- Cleve Jones Calls for National LGBT March on Washington
- Obama’s Army Sec Pick Weak on LGBT Equality
- McHugh: I Have ‘No Interest’ in Excluding Gays From Military
- DADT SCOTUS ‘Rejection’: What’s It Mean?
Although I’ve been busy discussing legal and political questions relating to LGBT issues this month, there have been some other notable posts in the past month relating to my more general governmental interests. They include:
Finally, I had two excellent opportunities in the past month to write for the national blogs of organizations whose work I greatly respect:
- “The Gill Question” was written for the American Constitution Society’s ACSblog
- “Where Does Sotomayor Stand On The Commerce Clause?” was written for The Wonk Room at Think Progress, the blog from the Center for American Progress
Thanks for all the visitors, and I do particularly like all the comments that have been posted this months. Just as excellent are all the e-mails about various issues and questions from readers, as well as a couple of great tips.
Finally, please e-mail me (in the sidebar) with any thoughts you have about ways to improve the site or my blog/Twitter interaction and choices. Thanks!
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Chris Geidner is the award-winning senior political editor at D.C.'s Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, The American Prospect, Advocate.com, Salon and other publications, as well as at his blog, Law Dork. In 2011, he received the Excellence in News Writing Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his coverage of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal. Prior to moving to D.C. in 2009, he served as an attorney on the senior staff at the Ohio Attorney General's Office and had earlier worked for a leading Columbus law firm. An extended biography can be found