Month: January 2007
Employment law blogs
Not one but three new employment law blogs to report: Employment Law Blog from Gail Escolme, specialist employment solicitor with Hayton Winkley Kendal, on the Westmorland Gazette site. Employment Law Blog from Charles Price, specialist employment barrister with No5 Chambers. Mark Ellis Blog from Mark Ellis, UK employment law solicitor and CEO at Ellis Whittam.
Hard times
So, PC World has decided to let stocks of floppy disks run out. And that will be the end of it. Only yesterday I finally donated a CopyPro disk copier, purchased in the early 90s for a substantial 4-figure sum, to a worthy recipient who runs jumble sales of PC stuff. In its heyday it […]
A really simple marketing strategy
I wholeheartedly agree with Kevin O’Keefe at Lexblog that law firms should use RSS to get their (PR) information to their target audience. Kevin monitors a lot of RSS feeds for legally related keywords and key phrases and is shocked how little he receives from large law firms with very significant PR budgets. It’s not […]
IT-itis
There I am banging on about losing the I from IT, when it seems IT is losing the plot altogether. LegalIT, from LegalWeek has disappeared; the nearest equivalent on the new LegalWeek site is the Management & IT section. The Legal IT News blog from Legal IT Forums (legalitforums.com) has also disappeared. Legal IT Forums […]
No IT please, we’re all on e
What is technology is as much defined by our attitude as by the innovations themselves. This is well illustrated by Douglas Adams, in a prescient and apparently famous article in the Sunday Times in 1999 on How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet: 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re […]
Has Binary Law gone nuts?
No, it’s a new, lookalike IP blawg. [Update: No longer a lookalike as Binary Law is using a new theme.]
The Legal Week community
Legal Week now has a trio of blogs with the addition of Legal Village. This is a collection of short articles by high-profile names. Active contributors thus far, with one post each, are: Bill Knight, Master of the City Solicitors’ Livery Company; Charles Martin, Head of Macfarlanes; Fiona Woolf, President of the Law Society of […]
Have I got news for Yahoo?
I’m well aware that my post titles suck for search engine optimisation (SEO) purposes. For those unfamiliar with that black art, consider just that I could have entitled this post “Writing headlines for the search engines”. Boring or what? As the linked NY Times article says: “There are no algorithms for wit, irony, humor or […]
Beefy and Lamby anyone?
Comment on the Government’s proposals to close 550 plus government websites has provoked a range of comment from “about time too” to “a bit of a sick joke“, with numerous geeks chipping in that this is all unnecessary because [Web 2.0 reason here]. One needs to dig a little deeper than the government press release […]
She gets my vote
I’m not one to stray off topic, but can’t help admiring the skill of Shilpa Shetty who is favourite to win Celebrity Big Brother. Irritating as she is, she deftly exposes the lesser celebrities, with a few notable exceptions, as shallow and gullible (racism and bigotry aside). The smart prize also has to go to […]
5 things – the genesis
Courtesy of Technorati, the oldest accessible post I can find containing “5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me” is this on 28 April 2006 by one who claims to be starting the chain. In the last 30 days posts peaked in the period 19-24 December, no doubt fueled by alcohol.
Gov 2.0
In its Progress report on Transformational Government Strategy just published, the Cabinet Office reports that the government will close at least 550 government websites, with only 26 certain to be retained (presumably the Departmental websites plus DirectGov and Business Link to which information from the closed websites is to be transferred). The move is sold […]
Law firm e-marketing stats
Primary Research Group has published a Survey of [US] Law Firm E-marketing Practices ($295). The following is from Larry Bodine’s helpful summary. Data in the report is based on a survey of 46 (mostly major) law firms. I’m guessing there must be some 100,000 US law firms, so this is a tiny sample and cannot […]
Playing tag
I’ve been tagged by Charon QC and must tell you 5 things you didn’t know about me (with bonus trivia added): 1. Although I was born in Twickenham, I spent my formative years in apartheid-era South Africa. Despite having returned 30 years ago, my vowels are still flat and people still ask me where I’m […]
A feeding frenzy
In a quest for more law-related RSS feeds I find that RICS now provides more than 750. That’s one for every category (eg Property), sub-category (eg Landlord and Tenant) and sub-sub category in its CMS. I’ve pointed out before that if you use a CMS to generate What’s New html pages you can, with a […]
