Month: October 2006
Google’s Custom Search
There’s a fair buzz going around with the release last week of Google’s Custom Search Engine facility. It has been possible for some time to place a Google search for a single URL on your site, but now you can create a custom CSE that searches up to 2,000 specified URLs. These can be explicit […]
Communicate, share, collaborate
We talk a lot about public blogs and wikis, so it’s good to get a report of the benefits and potential of their use internally within a large law firm. In the latest issue of Legal Technology Journal from Legalease (print on paper), Ruth Ward, head of knowledge sytems and development at Allen & Overy, […]
Fertile ground for law blogs (2)
Following my recent post in which I suggested The Lawyer should get blogging, I note that Legal Week has done just that, with the Editor’s Blog and The Daily Diary (your one-stop gossip shop). There’s lots of good comment in all the legal weeklies, so why not share it with us? You’ll get a result.
Let’s get social
Blog software is what is these days called “social software” – software “which enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication and to form online communities.” Unlike other communities which exist in a particular space (like MySpace, a wiki etc), the blogosphere is a virtual space, created principally by the links to other […]
Blawg Review #78
An overdue recommendation that you visit Justin Patten’s Blawg Review #78. Each weekly issue of Blawg Review is made up of article submissions selected from the best recent law blog posts. The blogger that puts together the Blawg Review carnival each week is called the “host”. Justin does an admirable job, commenting on numerous blogs […]
We’ve only just begun
Steve Matthews of Vancouver Law Librarian Blog has produced a list of Top 10 Uses for RSS in Law Firms. These are all good examples of what RSS can be used for. But my contention is there is no Top 10; it’s horses for courses, and there are an awful lot of courses. RSS is […]
All you need to know about …
New blogger, DivorceSolicitor: Single mother with 3 children, 2 ex husbands, 1 boyfriend (doubles as ex husband) and 0 pets. Hobbies include cooking, horse-riding, reading, knitting, DIY, dancing, but I don’t have time to do any of these as I spend all free-time socialising with 6 friends (you know who you are). Used to like […]
Democratising law publishing
Jordan Furlong, who edits the Canadian Lawyers Weekly, posts on Slaw about how blogs and RSS feeds will democratise Legal Publishing in the 21st Century: Legal publishers need to understand that the number of competitors [in legal news publishing] is not going to shrink – it’s going to multiply tenfold. And these competitors won’t have […]
Don’t break it when you fix it
Time was (last millennium) when every new government department / agency website was newsworthy whatever its utility. Then lots of content was added and content management systems were employed to structure browsing and search. That was all good stuff but with plenty of room for improvement. Many are now repainting their frontages and making those […]
A wiki law trawl
Head on over to the Wikipedia and you’ll find that there is developing a very useful corpus of entries on UK law. The United Kingdom Law page indicates the scope of the contributions thus far, though you’ll find the structure predictably chaotic. However, there are some more structured starting points – list maniacs are at […]
Fertile ground for law blogs
I had a long overdue face-to-face with Justin of Human Law last week. We bemoaned the state of the legal blogosphere. In fact, there are so few points on the surface of this sphere, that it hardly rates as a sphere at all, even a small one. Should we actively try to expand it or […]
