Bob Glushko is an original and deep thinker about structured information flows (think XML and its bigger relatives). And he’s smart. But he has a blog anyway. It’s called “Doc or Die” and shared with Tim McGrath.
Recent Bluessky Posts- It has to be fear. The question is whether it's fear for their political future, fear for their economic options after they leave office, or fear for their life if the mob decides to come after them or their families. (In some cases I guess it could be blackmail but that seems like reaching.) March 4, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- In which we demonstrate that there is no need for a horse to become a member of the Senate in order for it to become irrelevant March 4, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Looks like yet another executive order or draft rule designed to get a headline more than achieve anything other than maybe drain legal resources from people who haven't drunk the Kool-Aid. March 4, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Jurisprudence: Izabela Skoczen, What is Real Law?, JOTWELL (March 4, 2026) (reviewing Brian Flanagan & Guilherme de Almeida, Lawful, But Not Really: The Dual Character of the Concept of Law, 43 L. & Phil. 507 (2024)), juris.jotwell.com/what-is-real.... March 4, 2026 Jotwell
- Liberty U career serv job advice, "The two most important requirements are you MUST be aligned politically with President Trump and his administration and you must be willing to work hard. Don’t be scared off by the transcript requirement. GPA is not a strong factor." abovethelaw.com/2026/03/law-... March 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
Michael is correct… yes, i do have a blog. But I have a good excuse. The “Document Engineering” book I wrote finally came out (see docengineering.com for sample chapters etc).
One unexpected consequence of writing this book was that last semester I was finding it pretty unsatisfying to teach my Document Engineering course at UC Berkeley, because a lecture that would seem synthetic and insightful when the book didnt exist felt like a rehash of the text now that I had put all those synthetic insights into it. 🙂
Seriously, it felt pretty cheesy to tell a class of graduate students to read Chapter N, Chapter N+1, … as if I were going through the motions like my junior high school history teacher who taught US History when he was drunk most of the time. We heard “Just read the next chapter and do the questions at the end” every week for the entire year. That’s how it seemed when I taught from my own textbook.
So I started working hard to find news stories, case studies, demos and other things that complemented the book. My students liked this extra texture and pestered me about turning this sort of thing into a blog, so I finally succumbed to it.
-Bob Glushko