Year: 2007
SEO for dummies
Nearly Legal has a thing for Sally Field naked: she boosts his Google juice. His recent rise in the rankings for the said search term was helped by the fact that on Tuesday Sally won the Best Lead Actress Emmy for her role in Brothers and Sisters where all those leading TV actors you’ve seen […]
What does Law 2.0 mean to you?
Credit is due to the Wired GC for first coining the phrase “Law 2.0” back in December 2005, having posted the week before on Web 2.0, Law Style in which he foresaw that: Web 2.0 will be disruptive for the [law status quo], because some measure of control will be lost. And its simple technical […]
TheirTube
Christopher Knight is hacked off: Viacom took a video that I had made for non-profit purposes [and posted on YouTube] and without trying to acquire my permission, used it in a for-profit broadcast. And then when I made a YouTube clip of what they did with my material, they charged me with copyright infringement and […]
An open or shut case
LawLink (.com) is a LinkedIn copycat exclusively for US attorneys whose mission is to help attorneys build professional relationships with other attorneys and leverage their existing professional relationships. The admittedly large number of US attorneys pales in comparison to the global audience who are interested in their activities and from whose attention the network would […]
Facebook – law firm workplace networks
Following up on Kevin O’Keefe’s post on AmLaw 200 firms using Facebook (source Doug Cornelius), I did a quick trawl on Facebook for the top UK legal firms’ workplace networks. Figures are: Linklaters (with 895 members), Allen & Overy (846), Baker & McKenzie (669) and DLA Piper (623). Only these four of the top 20 […]
Finding the hot spots
Although a lot of attention is focussed on grabbing eyeballs through search engine optimisation and marketing, often too little consideration is given to what those eyeballs do when they arrive. I’ve referred a few times before to “web usability guru” Jakob Nielsen. Like many, and unlike himself, I don’t believe he’s God: some of his […]
OPSI – improved access to legislation
OPSI has significantly improved its access to Acts of Parliament. See, for example the new Pensions Act 2007. The page layouts are now fully stylesheet driven, with more accurate layout; and there are options to view a “plain” version (without sidebars) or a “single page” version, presenting the full text on one page rather than […]
It’s a legal information world
The Information World Review Blog posts an interview with James Mullen, Information Officer at CMS Cameron McKenna and author of LI Issues. He speaks for many serious blawgers in saying that his blog has exposed him to many individuals and organisations he may never have encountered otherwise. Thanks to James for mentioning Binary Law along […]
Pay up, mate
A day in court is a rare event for me. So it was illuminating to attend a county court hearing assisting a friend trying to recover her tenancy deposit. Judgment had been issued against the landlord, who had failed to respond to the claim. In his application to set aside the judgment, apart from denying […]
Economics 2.0
“Collaboration can occur on an astronomical scale, so if you can create an encyclopedia with a bunch of people, could you create a mutual fund? A motorcycle?” Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, authors of Wikinomics, think so. Smart companies are encouraging, rather than fighting, the heaving growth of massive online communities–many of which emerged from […]
Faceless
I feel no inclination to network on Facebook. Loads of business and professional people are supposedly doing so now. But what job will it get done better for me? I’m hugely in favour of using social software tools to do useful jobs. But we’re caught up in a frenzy of interest in “huge massively multi-user […]
None so blind
Web usability guru, Jakob Nielsen, reports in his weekly Alertbox for 20 August 2007 on banner blindness: The most prominent result from the new eyetracking studies is not actually new. We simply confirmed for the umpteenth time that banner blindness is real. Users almost never look at anything that looks like an advertisement, whether or […]
Law 2.0 gaining traction
The discussion about “Law 2.0” has been alive for some time with Dennis Kennedy, Tom Mighell, the Wired GC and other forward thinkers developing their thoughts over the last 18 months. Here’s the collected wisdom they have tagged as Law 2.0: Between Lawyers Wired GC Web-Tones Mullen on Law 2.0+ And following the SCL’s successful […]
Cutting the mustard
Every now and then I’m prompted to revisit the question “What is a blog?” I won’t rehash all my thinking here. Let’s instead consider the rather circular argument: a website produced with blog software is a blog. This must be true in 99% of cases, though it’s quite possible to produce a site with blog […]
IP law wiki off the starting blocks
Jeremy Phillips has posted on the IPKat about the exciting proposed development of an IP Law Wiki which has already gained some traction with the proposal for funding a feasibility study already under way. Most interesting for me is the comment that: if – as seems likely – [the feasibility study is successful], it will […]
