Natural Disasters
To Ernie Svenson, Blogging is ‘Largely a Selfish Activity’
Posted Dec 1, 2008, 11:30 pm CST
By Molly McDonough
Ernie Svenson
Ernie the Attorney, ernietheattorney.net
Solo practitioner, Svenson Law Firm, New Orleans
Svenson’s Ernie the Attorney blog is a blogroll favorite, whether for his aw-shucks, down-to-earth style or the fact that he blogged his way through two major hurricanes—first Katrina, then Gustav.
By the time of Gustav, Svenson had graduated from a structured blog format to microblogging via cell phone and text on Twitter. That way, even when his power was out and Internet access limited, he could post updates by using text-messaging features.
It was shortly after Katrina, and his harrowing escape from the city center after levees failed, that Svenson decided to hang his own shingle after nearly two decades of midsize-firm practice.
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