Month: July 2006
Understanding network neutrality
A lot of misinformation flows in the current debate raging on network neutrality. It is this says Tim Berners-Lee (and he should know): If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that […]
Holiday reading?
Probably not in there with your Dan Browns, but here’s a some webby books I’ve read recently or plan to (listed oldest first). You could do worse than feed your brain with one of them this Summer. Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Paperback) by Lawrence Lessig (August 2000) A Brief History of the Future: […]
Net networking to net work
In a post questioning the value of the the traditional website, Kevin O’Keefe neatly summarises how to network effectively on the net: Law firms and professional service firms network to get work. To network, you need to listen, engage in the discussion, and pass on information others may use in referencing you. … Find the […]
HIPs – enforcing competence
I’m interested in HIPs for two reasons: (1) some of infolaw’s bread and butter is the supply of forms and precedents to lawyers; and (2) HIPs are an example of government regulation which should achieve a social benefit – less delay and hassle in buying a home, one of the most stressful “life events”. There […]
Adnonsense
I’ve been running Google Adsense on Lawfinder for a few months now – mainly in the interests of research, though it does become seductive. I’ve also followed up on some of the research, blogs and forums about it. Here are my findings: The vast majority of Adsense accounts earn less than $50 per month and […]
Charon QC – now on the right track
Charon QC has just moved his blog to a new home on WordPress. He asks me what is this mysterious thing called atrackback? To I quote from the currentWikipedia article: TrackBack is a mechanism for communication between blogs: if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another […]
