Blog enthusiasts will be chuffed to learn that the blogosphere represents more than half of all websites. So bloggers rule! Or do they? Netcraft, in its November 2006 web survey reports that there are now over 101 million websites (hostnames), commenting that “Blogs and small business web sites have driven the explosive growth this year, […]
Contracts again. Apparently it’s OK in the US to lie through your teeth to induce someone to sign a contract. Here in the UK it’s just not cricket. [Borat] is described as “a documentary-style film” that the producer “hopes to reach a young adult audience using entertaining content and formats”. Clause four states that the […]
I can’t do better than quote verbatim from Jack Schofield in the Guardian Technology Blog: Over at Slate, Paul Collins makes the reasonable point that lots of examples of plagiarism may well come to light as more old works are digitised for Google Book Search. I should hope so! What he doesn’t point out is […]
Computer lawyer Mark Rasch analyses Microsoft’s end user licence agreement (EULA) for the new Vista operating system and finds the boys in Redmond ready to help themselves, leaving you weeping on the floor. The terms of the Vista EULA, like the current EULA related to the “Windows Genuine Advantage,” allows Microsoft to unilaterally decide that […]
What’s happened to the TimesOnline Law Weblog which has disappeared from the radar? At the time of its launch I wondered how the TimesOnline Law section and the Law Weblog would co-exist, commenting that, compared to news sites, blogs “allow less formal reporting and comment, free from the usual editorial strictures”. Could it be the […]
In response to the proposed extension of UK copyright for recordings from 50 years to 95 years, Lawrence Lessig blogs on quantifying the value of the public domain pointing to this like-named paper by Rufus Pollock. He also refers indirectly to an article by Eric Flint for Jim Baen’s Universe Copyright: How Long Should It […]
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Web 2.0 is not a technology or even a group of technologies; rather it is a buzzword describing the companies and ideas behind the emergence of a “new” internet built on the participatation of users. “Technology,” a sage once observed, “is stuff that doesn’t work yet.” That sounds like a joke, and it is, but […]
First published November 2006 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. The rise of social software A phenomenon of the last two years has been the meteoric rise of services built on “social software” – services that enable people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication and to form online communities (popularly referred to using […]
There’s a fair buzz going around with the release last week of Google’s Custom Search Engine facility. It has been possible for some time to place a Google search for a single URL on your site, but now you can create a custom CSE that searches up to 2,000 specified URLs. These can be explicit […]
We talk a lot about public blogs and wikis, so it’s good to get a report of the benefits and potential of their use internally within a large law firm. In the latest issue of Legal Technology Journal from Legalease (print on paper), Ruth Ward, head of knowledge sytems and development at Allen & Overy, […]
Following my recent post in which I suggested The Lawyer should get blogging, I note that Legal Week has done just that, with the Editor’s Blog and The Daily Diary (your one-stop gossip shop). There’s lots of good comment in all the legal weeklies, so why not share it with us? You’ll get a result.
Blog software is what is these days called “social software” – software “which enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication and to form online communities.” Unlike other communities which exist in a particular space (like MySpace, a wiki etc), the blogosphere is a virtual space, created principally by the links to other […]
An overdue recommendation that you visit Justin Patten’s Blawg Review #78. Each weekly issue of Blawg Review is made up of article submissions selected from the best recent law blog posts. The blogger that puts together the Blawg Review carnival each week is called the “host”. Justin does an admirable job, commenting on numerous blogs […]
Steve Matthews of Vancouver Law Librarian Blog has produced a list of Top 10 Uses for RSS in Law Firms. These are all good examples of what RSS can be used for. But my contention is there is no Top 10; it’s horses for courses, and there are an awful lot of courses. RSS is […]
