Year: 2007
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 […]
Feeding the five thousand (and more)
There’s a gathering clamour amongst law librarians for publishers to provide new book title information via RSS feeds. Connie Crosby’s call is echoed by lo-fi Librarian and James Mullan at LI Issues. This is not perhaps the most exciting type of current awareness information that might spring to the creative minds in the publishing houses, […]
Time for a redesign?
Is it just me or do you think the new Times Online redesign is OVERDESIGN? Most negative criticism to date has centred on its use of lime green and the fact that their servers were overloaded and things didn’t work for the first day or two. There has been positive criticism – “nice” navigation, use […]
The other half
Mark Chillingworth, IWR Editor, blogs about today’s headline-grabbing report Child Poverty in Perspective: An overview of child well-being in rich countries. One of the difficult to live with, but great attributes of this country is that everything is aired in the open and we don’t live a myth pretending problems don’t exist. But as experts […]
Google is illegal says Brussels
Struan Robertson analyses on OUT-law.com the Court of First Instance ruling in favour of newspaper group Copiepresse that Google News and Google’s caching of web pages infringe copyright. The Belgian court … ruled that it cannot be deduced that the absence of technical protections [the robots.txt and NOARCHIVE protocols] is an unconditional authorisation. Google’s method […]
More law blogs
Thanks to Pupilblog I’ve discovered a couple more law blogs. Legal Beagle is “a barrister’s cynical take on that hotbed of scandal and controversy, the Criminal Justice System”. John Flood’s Random Academic Thoughts is “a legal academic commenting on the strange worlds of law, legal profession, bureaucracy, universities, and globalization.” Reminder: You can browse all […]
Another faux trainee blog
This time from Winckworth Sherwood. In its loosest sense a blog is simply an online diary with posts presented in reverse chronological order. On this definition, this is a blog. So why do I take issue? Because 55 million bloggers define a blog as much more than this and you do yourself no favours by […]
Viacom v. GooTube – who’s evil?
The battle for badness rages … From Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing: Viacom did a general search on YouTube for any term related to any of its shows [eg all those Jon Stewart clips] , and then spammed YouTube with 100,000 DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] take-down notices alleging that all of these clips infringed […]
Will Google strike a fair deal?
Welcome to the blawgosphere – and thanks – to Eoin O’Dell, a Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, blogging at cearta.ie, mainly on contract, restitution, freedom of expression, media, IT and cyber law. He refers to the excellent recent article in the New Yorker by Jeffrey Toobin on the […]
Tax law blogs
Robert Newey, English Solicitor and Chartered Tax Adviser is blogging on Law and Tax. Hearteningly, he writes: inspired by your articles in Delia Venables’ newsletter [Ed: also published on this blog], I have set up a blog which I hope to update weekly. … At the moment I can’t find anyone else much writing on […]
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 […]
