Work has been so hectic lately that I almost missed an important milestone.

On June 5, the World Directory of Alternative Dispute Resolution Blogs, a site that I developed from a project I began in 2005 to track and catalogue ADR blogs world-wide, celebrated its second anniversary.

Today ADRblogs.com lists 146 blogs from 25 countries, representing conversations across the globe about mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution in languages that include English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Romanian, Danish, and Turkish.

Here is a random sampling:

• ADR-Blog (Germany)
• Better Than Misery (Israel)
• Resolución Electrónica de Disputas (Argentina)
• Blog Solomediacion.com (Spain)
• The Mediation Times (England)
• Medierea (Romania)
• Réseau Médiation (Belgium)
• Chinese Negotiation (China)
• dominique.lopez-eychenie (France)
• ICT for Peacebuilding (Sri Lanka)
• Gestão de Conflitos Familiares (Brazil)
• Malaysian Mediation (Malaysia)
• LIMAMARC.REVISTA (Peru)
• The Work It Out Blog (Canada)
• Mediator Blah…Blah… (New Zealand)

To see more, and to immerse yourself in the global marketplace of ideas that is the ADR blogosphere, no passport is needed. Just go visit ADRblogs.com. To browse through the headlines of the blogs in its catalog, visit the World Directory of ADR Blogs Reading Room. Submissions, by the way, are always welcome.

The latest edition of Blawg Review, the weekly review of the best in legal blogging published every Monday, falls this week on Bloomsday, a celebration of James Joyce and his immortal opus, Ulysses, the book that made glorious the word “Yes” long before Roger Fisher and William Ury wrote their influential text on negotiation:

…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes

(Is it me, or is suddenly hot in here?)

This week’s host of Blawg Review, cearta.ie (”the Irish for rights”), explains how Blawg Review #164 pays tribute to this literary masterpiece:

Today is Bloomsday, the centrepiece of a weeklong festival in Dublin celebrating the day in 1904 on which the events of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses unfold, which is the day Joyce first formally went out with Nora Barnacle (the story is told in the enthralling movie Nora; other movies with 16 June references include The Producers and Before Sunrise). In the novel, all human life is there; and Eamon Fitzgerald’s Rainy Day is currently by far the best guide to the important things in life: democracy, football, and technology. Expect a Bloomsday post today (this is last year’s; update: this is this year’s). Just like Oh Brother, Where art Thou?, the novel loosely parallel’s Homer’s Odyssey, and this blogpost will very very loosely parallel Joyce’s Ulysses (or at least his chapter headings).

If you prefer your review of legal blogging without literary allusions, there is of course Blawg Review #163, ably hosted last week by More Partner Income.