Month: June 2006
Anything but easy
Thanks to my fan Charon QC -who crafts his excellent blog without the aid of blogging software -for his kind comments about Binary Law. In the same post he picks up on Geeklawyer’s rant about Sir Stelios (Parental Advisory: includes **** – look away now) and points to the Wikipedia entry for the said Greek-Cypriot, […]
Current Law Journal Content
Hats off to Washington & Lee Law School for their fantastic resource, Current Law Journal Content. CLJC provides summary views and feeds for the content of over 1220 law journals, sets up searches for individual articles across relevant web resources and links to full content where available. (Of course, full content is free for only […]
No, Stelios doesn’t own “orange”
Charles Christian of the Orange Rag (Legal Technology Insider) is blogging. Welcome to the blogosphere.
Syndication, syndication, syndication
First published July 2006 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers The most helpful expansion of the RSS acronym (there are several) is Remote Site Syndication. In this context, syndication refers to making data feeds available from a website in order to provide others with an updated set of content from it (for example latest news). […]
A half tonne of bloggers
I’ve just chanced upon the new Guardian site Comment is Free as it has hit the ether. Must be brand new as Goog has only one result for it. Comment is free is a major expansion of Guardian comment and analysis on the web. It is a collective group blog, bringing together regular columnists from […]
Falling out of love with Google (2)
Blogoscope’s Devil’s Guide to Google suggests how you can contribute to the spam fest.
Centralised or distributed (law) publishing?
Steve Butler at UKBlawgers argues for “a central source of legal information which is available to all at a very low price” and suggests a sort of grand law wiki as the solution. Now the wiki is certainly a neat collaborative publishing tool and has many advantages over more conventional publishing systems and many valid […]
InsideoutLegal
InsideoutLegal is an innovative new web servicefrom Richard Best (of PharmaBlawg fame) making the most of all new technologies. InsideoutLegal enables inside counsel to benefit from the legal and practical knowledge that outside counsel choose to share with them, whether in writing or spoken word. That shared knowledge can take the form of links to […]
Falling out of love with Google
I’m a big fan of Google the search engine. Always have been. But like many others, last year I started falling out of love with Google the business. It’s just too big, too powerful and its ambitions too great. It hasn’t abandoned its “don’t be evil” motto, but it defines evil for itself. It has […]
Shut up and listen
An anonymousmature trainee lawyer blogs atNearly Legal on “trying to become a lawyer and other things”. Looks like it could be a good one. I am older than most in this position, and had a not unsuccessful career before turning to law, so being talked to like a complete 20ish beginner was something of a […]
Bar blogs
Tim Kevan, barrister at 1 Temple Gardens, surfer and media pundit, is involved in the publication of three blogs: his own, Law Brief Update Blogand PI Brief Update Blog. The latter two complement the free, like-named newsletters produced by teams of barristers of which Tim is (an) editor.
And finally, the consolidation
After a 10-year wait the DCA has finally released a version of the Statute Law Database. Even this announcementwas late (released today): An on-line enquiry service for the statute law database was launched for government staff on 31 May 2006. Staff can find out how to access it by contacting our statutory publications helpdesk. We […]
Free Culture
I’ve just ordered a nice print edition of Larry Lessig’s Free Culture – per one reviewer (and my snatches of it confirm this) – a “focused, measured argument of the issues around preserving and extending digital creativity”. Many feel it’s cool to cite his blog in their blogrolls. I don’t find that compelling reading; on […]
e-Newsletters – RIP
I have for a long time believed that the web would spell the end of the newsletter. For the printed newsletter the end will be a long time coming. Print will not die anytime soon and the printed newsletter, smart and portable, will continue to be popular until the current generation, weaned on the internet, […]
