This week, the State Bar of Texas launched its own Texas Bar Blog. There are already some announcements about this year’s YouTube contest and some profiles of Texas lawyers (including a friend getting some justified attention for her restaurant reviews).

The State Bar also is ramping up a new twitter account (so far, the tweets are mostly about the legal aid funding crisis) and is developing its own Facebook application.

Now if only the State Bar could get the official statutes moved to a wiki…