It looks like En Banc has closed up shop, apparently against the wishes of some of the contributors. Obviously with a group blog like this there are technical (read: financial) questions to answer for the people running it, but it's fitting that a group of lawyers can't figure out how to wrap things up amicably...
By the way, I've been meaning to post pointing out that Venkat Balasubramani of balasubramani's mania has moved over to Begging to Differ, another group blog that was still functioning last I checked. I had been meaning to add BTD to the blogroll for some time and have finally done so.
I have to say though, I'm ambivalent about this blogglutinization phenom, maybe even highly skeptical. A big part of the draw to blogs, for me at least, is the singleness and clarity of voice they offer. For a blog with a particular subject matter or a particular ideology, there may be some profit in it... one stop shopping, and all that. But at the same time there's something nefariously corporate about all these mergers and acquisitions. Increasing returns to scale, maybe, but what's the currency?
And yet, and yet! I'm so fond of some of these group blogs, they can be so rich and dynamic. And here I am, at the moment, thinking seriously about not one, but two such enterprises...
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