This is the second time IP.com has hosted Blawg Review on our corporate weblog, Securing Innovation, the first being Blawg Review #179 to mark the anniversary of the invention of the ballpoint pen. A good theme, we thought, for a company blog about managing intellectual property, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.

But the opportunity to host on Fathers' Day touches many of us here at IP.com, our clients, and readers of this blog in a far more personal way. As the father of three wonderful little girls, it will be a privilege for me to present some of the best law blogs, or blawgs (as they're sometimes called) of this week, with a Fathers' Day theme.

This presentation on Fathers' Day is for all of us, those of us men who are blessed with children, those of us, men and women, who honor our fathers on this day, and women who share parenting with dads of their children, all of whom are invited to contribute to the celebration of fatherhood in Blawg Review #217.

Our presentation will cover a wide range of topics from law blogs, bringing you the best of the best blogs we think you'll find interesting. Befitting the theme for Fathers' Day, we will give special attention and focus on those blog posts that touch on what it means to be a father, or have a father, in our lives.

We're excited about this special opportunity, and look forward to everyone's enthusiastic participation to make this a memorable Blawg Review. To help us put this presentation together for Fathers' Day, we encourage those with law blog posts to submit, with their recommendations or suggestions, a personal photo depicting their own relationships as, or with, a father.

For this presentation, please send to blog@ip.com your own digital images showing what fatherhood means to you, or include a photograph with your post by email following the submission guidelines, and we'll do our best to include all in this special Fathers' Day Blawg Review.

Perhaps you're new to Blawg Review, the carnival of law blogs for everyone interested in law. If you have arrived here to our corporate blog, Securing Innovation, because you share our interests in Intellectual Property, you might be interested in looking at Blawg Review as it has been presented by some of the leading IP law bloggers you are familiar with already.

Stephen Albainy-Jenei hosted Blawg Review #19, #77, and #161 at Patent Baristas.

Steve Nipper hosted Blawg Review #146 at The Invent Blog.

Vickie Pynchon hosted Blawg Review #171 at the IP ADR Blog.

Doug Sorocco hosted Blawg Review #34 at PHOSITA.

Duncan Bucknell hosted Blawg Review #185 at IP Think Tank.

R. David Donoghue hosted Blawg Review #133 and #173 at the Chicago IP Litigation Law Blog.

I'm sure we've missed a few, but no list of noteworthy presentations of this carnival of law blogs by Intellectual Property attorneys would be complete without drawing attention to Colin Samuels, an in-house counsel, who hosted four Blawg Review of the Year award-winning presentations, #35, #86, #137, and #189 at Infamy or Praise. Quite deserving of the praise, everyone agrees.

The bar for these presentations has been set very high by our colleagues in the Intellectual Property community. With their help this time, we'll try our very best to make #217 worthy of the collaboration in a presentation of Blawg Review for Fathers' Day.

Let's make it special.

For our readers who might be unfamiliar with the carnival of law blogs, Blawg Review is the blog carnival for everyone interested in law.

A peer-reviewed blog carnival, the host of each Blawg Review decides which of the submissions and recommended posts are suitable for inclusion in the presentation. And the host is encouraged to source another dozen or so interesting posts to fit with any special theme of that issue of Blawg Review. The host's personal selections usually include several that reflect the character and subject interests of the host blawg, recognizing that the regular readership of the blog should find some of the usual content, and new readers of the blog via Blawg Review ought to get some sense of the unique perspective and subject specialties of the host.

This isn't the first time it's been hosted on a business blog. Anita Campbell recently hosted Blawg Review #177, her third time hosting the so-called carnival of law blogs on her award-winning Small Business Trends blog.

And it's not the first time Blawg Review has been hosted on an Intellectual Property blog. Earlier this year, on National Inventor's Day, patent attorney Stephen Nipper hosted Blawg Review #146 at The Invent Blog to celebrate Thomas Edison's birthday

Just last week, Blawg Review #178 was hosted by Peter Black, a lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology on his blog, Freedom to Differ, and before that, the Chicago IP Litigation Law Blog played host to an Olympic-themed presentation of Blawg Review #173. Intellectual Property dispute mediator Victoria Pynchon hosted an outstanding Blawg Review #171 at the IP ADR Blog.

So, you see what we're up against. If you don't think coming up with the next best Blawg Review is Hell, you haven't seen the law blog carnivals inspired by Dante, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, that earned Colin Samuels at Infamy or Praise three consecutive awards for Blawg Review of the Year.

"O, woe is me, t'have seen what I have seen, see what I see!"

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." -- Charles M. Schulz

Blawg Review #178 is being hosted today (or tomorrow) at Freedom to Differ, the law blog of Peter Black, a lecturer at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Peter’s research interests focus on legal issues relating to the regulation of the media and the internet. He is a regular contributor to the Internet Law Bulletin and The Business of Law from FindLaw Australia. Peter currently has a contract with Idea Group Publishing to edit a book with Kelley Burton titled Legal and Political Issues of Blogging: Surviving in the Blogosphere.

It's perhaps not surprising that Peter Black was scheduled to host Blawg Review on this day. Monday, September 22, 2008 is also One Web Day:

OneWebDay is an Earth Day for the internet. The idea behind OneWebDay is to focus attention on a key internet value (this year, online participation in democracy), focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills), and create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet. So, think of OneWebDay as an environmental movement for the Internet ecosystem. It’s a platform for people to educate and activate others about issues that are important for the Internet’s future.

To learn more about One Web Day click on this link.

Next week,  on Monday, September 29, 2008, Blawg Review #179 will be hosted here on Securing Innovation, the business blog of IP.com and, as those familiar with Blawg Review might anticipate, we plan to create a special theme for our presentation that will make perfect sense to everyone interested in patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, innovation management, and intellectual property law and policy. If you've written a blog post in those areas that you'd like us to include in next week's carnival of law blogs, or if you come across something next week on a lawyer's blawg or a company's business blog that you'd like to recommend, please send us a link following these Submission Guidelines for Blawg Review.