Web 2.0
Sidewiki – bad idea
Google Sidewiki has got many excited, not because it is neat or cool, but because it is a bad idea – something that feels instinctively wrong and that, after not much further thought, clearly is wrong. Sidewiki installs on the Google Toolbar and allows anyone to comment on any web page, displaying ranked comments in […]
Social business design
“Social business design” is a term you’ve probably not encountered before. I was introduced to it last evening by social computing expert and entrepreneur Lee Bryant at Headshift where I attended an event to explore the themes covered in the report Social Networking for the Legal Profession authored by him with Penny Edwards. I don’t […]
Brainstorm on web law at LawCampLeeds
Jane Lambert of NIPC (also NIPC Law and @nipclaw) is organising LawCampLeeds on 7 April, which will address practical solutions to legal problems presented by development and use of Web 2.0 andWeb 3.0 technologies. I’m sure all you IP/IT lawyers will benefit. Good luck Jane.
Karaoke anyone?
Doug Cornelius has published a great set of slides which he used in his recent presentation on An Attorney’s Perspective on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0. Have a walk through the slides and see if you can parrot what he was saying.
The Network in 2008
This year Web 2.0 came of age. Blogs, wikis, photo sharing, video sharing, social networking, social this, social that, SaaS: all these services have developed at phenomenal pace. In particular, the Facebook craze burst out of its collegiate limitations and has gained traction even amongst lawyers; at the SCL conference in June, half the delegates […]
Web 2.0 for lawyers
A much-extended version of this article was published September 2007 in the Legal Web CPD course on Legal Information and Web 2.0. This version was published November 2007 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. What is Web 2.0? The phrase “Web 2.0” was coined by Tim O’Reilly in 2003 and refers to the way software […]
CaseCheck
Here’s a great new Law 2.0 initiative. CaseCheck, headed by Stephen Moore, offers case summaries from the Scottish Courts and EAT, delivered latest-first and also categorised, with RSS feeds. Selected committed users author the summaries; all users can add comments. Does that sound like a familiar formula? Yes, it’s built with an open source blog […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Power to the people (2)
The Cabinet Office has responded positively to the independent report it commissioned on the future of government services – The Power of Information (see previous post) – saying that the Government will engage in partnership with user-led online communities, not attempt to replicate them: The Government should work in partnership with the best of citizens’ […]
Facing the future
Last Friday/Saturday I attended the SCL Web 2.0 conference in Oxford where speakers and panellists included technology lawyers from large practices, lawyers from Web 2.0 companies, a venture capitalist, an academic and our deputy from the ICO. The majority of the delegates were from large law firms – there to learn what this Web 2.0 […]
Gov 2.0 – power to the people
Around the world, the first phase of Government use of the internet is coming to an end with public services and information largely online. We are now at the start of a new era, where Government starts to learn how to support citizens’ own ways of making, finding and re-using information online. So says Tom […]
Information professionals – hip or unhip?
LexisNexis has announced the results of a nationwide (US) survey to provide insights into how information professionals are adding value to their organisations through Web 2.0 technology and knowledge management. According to the press release, when respondents were asked, “What is the most successful new initiative/service that you have launched in the past year?”, the […]
Is the internet killing our culture?
Silicon Valley entrepreneur and polemicist Andrew Keen is kicking up a storm with his views on Web 2.0, soon to be published in his book The Cult of the Amateur: how today’s internet is killing our culture. Leading national media columnists have recently commented in balanced terms on his views and the book in particular: […]
