Month: March 2007
Law blogs @ LSE
Two useful new blogs from the LSE School of Law: Virtual Law@LSE aims to keep you up to date with developments in information and communications technology law from a UK perspective. MediaPaL@LSE provides comment and sources on media policy and law.
Really simple?
Thanks to lo-fi librarian for discovering Parliament’s secret RSS feeds. But, as she points out, subscribing to these is far from simple: 1) Nowhere are the feeds advertised. You first need to find a page that offers the option to “Subscribe to Email Alerts for this page”, eg Public Bills before Parliament. 2) On the […]
Mind your Rs
This on Slaw yesterday about Simon Fodden’s day in the Canadian Supreme Court got me thinking: Justice Charon was using a laptop, the only one of the nine to do so (at least so far as I could see). It would be interesting to discover whether she was able to follow the references to the […]
Does IT matter?
Nicholas Carr’s article IT Doesn’t Matter, originally published in the Harvard Business Review in May 2003 and reproduced on his Rough Type blog, caused quite a stir. His argument, expanded in the 2004 book Does IT Matter?, can be summarised through these excerpts: You only gain an edge over rivals by having or doing something […]
Viacom v. GooTube (2)
In countering Viacom’s $1 billion suit against YouTube, Google relies on the “safe harbor” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to shield it from liability for third party copyright infringements. That’s stretching it a bit says OUT-Law.com. In Viacom’s words, “the YouTube strategy has been to avoid taking proactive steps to curtail the […]
Was it something I said?
I had lunch with Charon on Friday; then he died. It has not made a blind bit of difference. Looks like he will be as prolific from the grave. Perhaps he perked up when he watched the rugby.
If CanLII can …
Steven Matthews at Slaw alerts us to the new CanLII beta site. As well as a smart new design and other features I have not not yet investigated, CanLII now provides RSS feeds for recently added/modified decisions for all courts. Well done guys. Let’s see the same from BAILII.
Statute Law Database – the jury’s still out
In the first few days following the launch of the SLD there was a fair amount of comment and criticism. But since then … zilch. Is everyone ecstatically happy with it, reserving their judgment or quietly cursing its shortcomings? As a leading proponent for early and open access to the SLD (indeed, a main campaigner […]
The Net is a giant zero
Great post by Doc Searls on why the mainstream media should open up their walled gardens: The Net is a giant zero. It puts everybody zero distance from everybody and everything else. And it supports publishing and broadcasting at costs that round to zero as well. It is essential for the mainstream media to understand […]
Web 2.0 – a law publisher’s view
In an article in Information World Review, Will Web 2.0 revolutionise information providers or kill them?, Peter Lake, chairman of the Sweet & Maxwell Group, give his views on its implications for law publishers. Simon Chester on Slaw has helpfully excerpted the comments. Here are a few, stripped of all the original context: The challenge […]
What exactly is Web 2.0?
The expression “Web 2.0” is much in vogue and I am as guilty as anyone in bandying the 2.0 tag about. But what’s it all about? One of the more helpful explanations of Web 2.0 I have come across is on the Web2.0 for Lawyers public wiki which showcases the potential and promise of emerging […]
Pop 2.0 – it was 40 years ago today
Heading uptown this morning I picked up a copy of March’s Mojo at the newsagent, tempted by the enticing cover CD – a reworking of Sgt Pepper by a dozen groups most of whom I confess not to have heard of. The mag itself features a lengthy article describing the impact of this seminal album. […]
