Blog Review: Unbillable Hours

Weblog of the Week: Unbillable Hours (not to be confused with the [non]billable hour).

Why I Like It: The proprietor of Unbillable Hours, TPB, is a lawyer, and mentions that fact every now and then. I initially read Unbillable Hours for the fiction that TPB would post from time to time. But about six months ago, TPB radically changed his weblog, which became more of a photoblog than anything else. It was my first experience with photoblogging. Now I particularly like TPB's "picture envy" posts, in which he highlights the art of other photographers.

Last month, TPB explained why he began to de-emphasize the written word on his weblog in an interesting post, ironically-titled "On How to Start a Winning Blog," which is critical of a Washington Post article with the same title. In the post, TPB takes issue with the notion that weblogs are anything special: "these sites – blogs – are not intended to be anything more than electronic paper. A convenient, useful way to write or keep track of information or display photos."

Unbillable Hours is a little hard to navigate. If you want to check it out, I suggest clicking on a post's "permalink," then navigating page by page with the arrows at the top.

Recommended Reading:

1. An essay by TPB: "The Post In Which I Comment On BloggerCon in a Fashion Clearly Stolen from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency And For Which David Eggers Would Have Every Right To Sue Me For Infringement*"

2. Part of the fun of TPB's photos is the titles: "Every Year I Wonder Why I Do It"

3. TPB on del.icio.us: "Picture Envy for December 24, 2004"

Comments

[TPB, Esq.]

Thanks, Evan, I appreciate the nod. I recognize that Unbillable Hours is hard to navigate, and have been working on a solution to that. Depending on how things go, I'll probably have that issue resolved by spring.