Day: February 27, 2007
Conflict aside
Legal Scribbles is a great new blog where Martin George, law tutor at Birmingham University, lets off steam and struts his stuff. He’s also General Editor of the Conflict of Laws .net news and discussion portal/blog, but “conflictoflaws.net, whilst very interesting, is not exactly the place where one can post a rejoinder to something [vindictive] […]
RTFPIFOY
Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen posits in his latest monthly Alertbox article that what children need is not instruction on how to use Microsoft products (or Google apps or any other proprietary applications); just sit them in front of these and most will grasp the skills themselves far quicker than we can teach them – […]
Things come together
A number of bloggers have commented on the number of new blawgs that have recently appeared. So we are it seems progressing predictably faster along the lower reaches of that bell curve. In typical fashion Geeklawyer welcomes more law bloggers … cautiously: He’s sympathetic to free markets to a point and he welcomes, at an […]
The law wiki dream
First published March 2007 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. Solicitor Steve Butler, who produces the UKLawyers legal newswire, has changed his former opinion that a grand centralised law wiki could be an enormously valuable resource. Having previously been impressed by Richard Susskind’s comments in this vein, Steve now believes that unpaid volunteers cannot be […]
