Appearance on National Public Radio (April 2o1o)
NPR’s Nazanin Rafsanjani interviewed me for a segment called “SLAPP Back” on her program, On The Media. The story focused on SLAPP lawsuits (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation), and one of the examples it featured was the frivolous defamation complaint brought against me by Orlando dog shooter Chris Comins.
(View the NPR transcript, or listen to the On The Media podcast).
(Visit the blog, Comins v. VanVoorhis for the latest updates on the lawsuit).
Rising Blogger Post of the Day Award (July 2008)
My article, “The McDonaldization of Citizenship”, received the Rising Blogger Post of the Day Award on July 21, 2008, after having been nominated several days earlier.
According to the online publication’s mission statement, “The Rising Blogger” is devoted to finding and spotlighting the best of the blogosphere in order to help bloggers find, enjoy, appreciate, and validate the work of other bloggers.
“The Rising Blogger Post of the Day Award is bestowed upon original content that is insightful, inspiring, newsworthy, educational, informative, touching, creative, interesting, or humorous.”
(Here are the Nomination Guidelines and Official Nomination Form for the Rising Blogger Post of the Day Award).
Invited Guest Host: Carnival of Law Bloggers (May 2010)
On May 3, 2010,Carnival of Law Bloggers invited me to host Blawg Review #262 to commemorate World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2010.
Blawg Review is a weekly roundup of legal blogging, hosted by a different legal blog each week. For over five years it’s been hosted on a rotating weekly basis by various law blogs from around the world.
As the task requires a certain degree of legal expertise, the honor nearly always goes to actual lawyers. I was proud to be one of only three or four non-lawyers given this honor in over five years.
Thinking Blogger Award (August 2007)
Fellow-bloggers honored my blog, Public Intellectual, with the Thinking Blogger Award on August 10, 2007 (along with four other blogs). The Thinking Blogger Award is a somewhat informal award given to “blogs that make readers think.” (More details here).
