Year: 1995
How to spend £100 this Christmas
First published in the Solicitors Journal, December 1995. Back in October Delia Venables and Charles Christian published their Guide to the Internet for Lawyers. This has attracted favourable reviews from Laurence Eastham in Computers and Law (somewhat guarded it has to be said) and Nigel Armitage in the Legal Times (unreserved), though understandably the ‘substantial […]
Because it’s there
First published in the Solicitors Journal, October 1995. What puts most people off information technology, or rather what holds them back from diving in enthusiastically, is the ‘technology’ bit. We are all interested in information in one form or another, but if it’s difficult to get at, it might as well not be there. This […]
Nothing but the truth – shattering a few internet myths
First published June 1995 in The Lawyer What the Internet is not: A hotbed of pornography. Uninformed journalists will write about what they know. They do not know very much about the workings of the Internet. [Update: The hacks were right insofar as the web is full of porn, but they were wrong to focus […]
1995 – Year 1 for Electronic Publishing
First published May 1995 in Computers and Law (1995, vol. 6, no 1, pp. 6-8). Republished here with slight edits to broken bits. Writing in 1985, shortly after its demise, David Warlock reported that Eurolex … had registered some 375 client organisations at the time of its closure, of whom some 200 were paying a […]
