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Information overload
First published in the Solicitors Journal, January 1996. Net ‘surfing’ is no longer an appropriate analogy. Was it ever? If your view of surfing is effortlessly gliding down the face of a wave on one uninterrupted ride to the shore, then I bet you don’t do it on the Web. Not now. Maybe never before. […]
How to spend £100 this Christmas
First published in the Solicitors Journal, December 1995. Back in October Delia Venables and Charles Christian published their Guide to the Internet for Lawyers. This has attracted favourable reviews from Laurence Eastham in Computers and Law (somewhat guarded it has to be said) and Nigel Armitage in the Legal Times (unreserved), though understandably the ‘substantial […]
Because it’s there
First published in the Solicitors Journal, October 1995. What puts most people off information technology, or rather what holds them back from diving in enthusiastically, is the ‘technology’ bit. We are all interested in information in one form or another, but if it’s difficult to get at, it might as well not be there. This […]
