2009 Legal Educator Blog Census, Version 2.0 (Blog/Blogger Statistics)
These are some statistics that I compiled regarding my blog census. According to my census, there are 588 educators at law schools in the United States posting on blogs. The gender breakdown is as follows:
368 male blogger
220 female bloggers
I’m not the biggest fan of law school rankings, but here are the number of bloggers at schools in each of the tiers of the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings:
1st Tier: 228 bloggers
2nd Tier: 156 bloggers
3rd Tier: 78 bloggers
4th Tier: 107 bloggers
Unranked: 19 bloggers
Finally, here is a ranking of law schools by the number of blogs on which educators at those schools post. Of course, some of the blogs in the census contained one post in the three month period covered while other had several posts each day. In other words, these rankings are far from perfect, but I think that they provide a decent indication of where law schools stand in the blogosphere. For an alternate ranking, you can scroll to the bottom of this list and see a ranking of schools by number of bloggers per school.
TWELVE (1-3)
NINE (5-6)
EIGHT (7-11)
SEVEN (12-16)
SIX (17-26)
FIVE (27-39)
FOUR (40-58)
THREE (59-86)
TWO (87-116)
ONE (117-156)
Alternatively, here is a ranking of schools by number of blogger per school:
TWENTY-THREE (1)
EIGHTEEN (2)
FOURTEEN (3-4)
TWELVE (5-6)
FOUR (42-61)
THREE (62-81)
TWO (82-116)
ONE (117-156)
-CM