The folks over at a website called Best Colleges Online sat down to compile a list of the one hundred best blogs for history junkies, and they were kind enough to give CLEWS a nod.
Under the category of "Odd & Interesting," CLEWS appears (along with Executed Today, one of my favorite crime history blogs, very well researched). Odd? I suppose. Interesting? I hope so.
On top of being named one of the 100 best legal blogs on the internet (by the American Bar Association Journal), CLEWS is tickled with this latest honor. I started this website solely to humor myself (and to put my notes somewhere they won't be misplaced), and if others are entertained along the way, it's frosting on the cake.
Thanks to compiler Jessica Merritt for the nice mention and the 99 other links worth exploring.
That's great, Laura, and so it is for the guy who runs "Executed Today". I've kept the link too - well worth exploring! I'm so glad you're still blogging - so many others are shutting down :-(
Posted by: Fiz | September 18, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Thanks for your nice note, Fiz.
Yes, one of my favorite blogs (CrimeRant) is mothballed, and others have found other things to do. I don't think I'm going anywhere. It's too much fun to write this -- and I love getting notes (and free books) from authors and fans. So CLEWS will be around for the forseeable future. . . .
Laura
Posted by: Laura James | September 18, 2008 at 10:34 AM
You mean my blog didn't make it? I'll have to fire my PR firm. Congratulations Laura. As long as you keep writing, you'll have a permenant spot on my feed burner. Of course if you stop writing I'll likly keep you on my feed burner...I'm so lazy. Hmmmm...Maybe that's why I didn't make it :)
Posted by: Inspector Winship | September 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Well-deserved, Laura. (And thanks for the gratuitous shout-out here as well...)
I'm glad you're going to keep on keeping on. Executed Today is coming up on a year ... of ... daily ... content (pant) ... so I'm totally in awe of CLEWS' longevity-frequency-readability combination.
(Thanks to Fiz as well, while I'm here ... early readers are like gold.)
Posted by: Executed Today | September 18, 2008 at 07:58 PM
Late reading about your inclusion in the best 100 list by the ABA, but congratulations! Keep up the great work you do here.
Posted by: Sprocket | September 30, 2008 at 06:54 PM