Pied Pipers

I’m convinced that the role of the evangelist is essential to the success of our effort to get blogs into use as far and as wide at Harvard as possible.  The technology, its effectiveness, and the experience will all speak for themselves, but there’s got to be someone to make the pitch and get people excited about it.  Kudos all the same to Stanford and others who already have or are starting up efforts to experiment with blogs on campus.  At some point, it may help for us to move from one Pied Piper (doing an unbelievable job!) to one Pied Piper plus lots of Unofficial Deputy Pied Pipers among the faculty who will blog and/or experiment with blogs in classes.  There’s a star quality to senior faculty that has an amazing effect.  I wonder how many blogs among law students have started as copycats to Lessig or Balkin or Volokh.  Some of the UDPPs might be students with strong voices, like Derek, who can inspire colleagues to get started.  Interesting to see what will work.